Consumers are managing their financial services in more digital and diverse ways than ever before. But as card-not-present (CNP) transactions across e-commerce, m-commerce and remote commerce rise across the globe so does fraud.

MYPINPAD, the global leader in secure personal authentication solutions, is strengthening its presence in the Asia-Pacific secure payment space by providing its regional partner Clik, a fast-growing South East Asian payments aggregator, with its innovative Authenticator solution. 

It has been around one and a half years since the real open banking journey started, with the UK taking the lead. Open banking is boldness and flexibility. For ages, the financial data of customers were close to the chest for banks and customers did not have much choice. Times have changed drastically recently. Customers are starting to get more freedom of managing their financial contacts by getting rid of tight coupling with their financial institutions.

Leading technology firm Altron Bytes Managed Solutions (Altron Bytes MS) and payments specialist Renovite Technologies have announced a new strategic partnership which will revolutionise the ATM channel. The agreement will see the two businesses help financial institutions bring innovative new services to market, echoing the level of modernisation seen elsewhere across global financial services.

Opsview, the company that unifies cloud and infrastructure monitoring, has today released a new report revealing that many companies have unfit IT strategies in place to adequately support their digital transformation projects – even though many agree it’s a top priority. For instance, 25% of respondents said that they struggle to effectively monitor the health of their organisation’s IT systems; a further 21% said that legacy prevents growth and scalability, and 7% noted that legacy, people and process stopped them operating in a dynamic manner.

Moscow Exchange has facilitated connectivity options for professional market participants and their clients from Asia and the Middle East. In collaboration with Avelacom, it has deployed new Points of Presence (PoPs) in the most sophisticated and largest data centers in Hong Kong, Singapore, Shanghai, Dubai and Mumbai. Market participants have received high speed access to MOEX’s markets without the need to build extra infrastructure and pay for low latency network connection to Moscow.

MOEX’s PoPs provide the following features:

Following recent expansion in Singapore, London based RegTech firm ClauseMatch closed its first venture debt funding round with Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), the bank of the world’s most innovative businesses and their investors.

The $2.5 million loan package agreed between ClauseMatch and Silicon Valley Bank will be allocated to support the company's continued growth in Europe and Asia. Recently the company started operations in South East Asia, out of Singapore, and is already serving clients with a presence in the region.

Sopra Steria is today announcing an alliance with Inbotiqa, the provider of next-generation Intelligent Business Email solutions, extending its range of services answering the need for greater security and regulatory compliance across communications.

Tokenized Group Pty Ltd has announced the official public release of the Tokenized Protocol Beta. The Tokenized Protocol is a comprehensive, regulation-friendly solution for businesses to create tokens for real world assets on the Bitcoin SV (BSV) blockchain. This is a huge milestone for the Tokenized team, and they are excited to share their work with the world.

Path Solutions, the global Islamic banking software company was ranked ‘Number One Islamic Banking Software Provider’, as well as ‘4^th Global Universal Banking System Provider in 2019’ according to the latest IBSI Sales League Table.