OKEO, a digital payment service provider for European entrepreneurs and businesses, announced their successful go-live on the leading cloud banking platform,

OpenFin, the operating system of enterprise productivity, has announced it is strengthening its executive leadership team by appointing Vicky Sanders as Chief Digital Officer.

Sanders, a highly successful entrepreneur and experienced industry operative, will drive digital transformation across the company’s ecosystem of buy-side and sell-side institutions, along with the global vendor community.

India’s leading digital payments and financial services company and the pioneer of QR and mobile payments, has partnered with Samsung authorized stores across India to facilitate smart payments as well as Paytm Postpaid (Buy Now, Pay Later) at their retail outlets through the deployment of PoS devices. With this partnership, Paytm will enable consumers to make digital payments seamlessly at Samsung Authorized stores spread across the country.

Launched today, the Norrsken Impact100 is an annual list of the world’s most promising impact companies and shines a light on visionary founders who are changing the world for the better.

“We believe that entrepreneurs building rapidly scalable businesses are our best bet to solving the world’s hardest and biggest problems,” says Niklas Adalberth, Founder of Norrsken Foundation. “These awards are the first of their kind to celebrate their impact in this way,” he said.

Temenos, the world’s leading open platform for composable banking, today announced that North International Bank (NIBank) has gone live with Temenos to digitally transform its retail banking and private wealth business lines. The Temenos Banking Cloud supports daily transactions, wealth management and lending.

Al-Ataa Islamic Bank for Investment and Finance has selected ICS BANKS Islamic Platform, a worldwide digital Shari’a compliant software solution, from ICS Financial Systems (ICSFS), the global software and services provider for banks and financial institutions.

Callsign, the digital identity pioneer, has released a report quantifying for the first time the value of digital trust to society and the economy. The research reveals the potential to build growth during the current global economic slowdown with a five percentage point increase in digital trust resulting in an average increase in GDP per capita of US$3,000.

Though remote work and the hybrid working model have proven beneficial for employee well-being, inclusion and productivity, there have also been pitfalls – most notably on the security front. “Threat actors never stopped looking for new ways to exploit the vulnerabilities that came from this rapid shift to remote work and are still doing so now that hybrid work is becoming the norm,” says Marilyn Moodley, Country Leader for South Africa and WECA (West, East, Central Africa) at SoftwareONE.

AML RightSource (“AMLRS”), the leading provider of Anti-Money Laundering (“AML”), Know Your Customer (“KYC”), and Bank Secrecy Act (“BSA”) compliance solutions, has added a new capability to its QuantaVerse Financial Crime Platform.

Trustfolio Ltd, the ‘debt-tech’ collective behind the Debt Adviser Support Portal and other digital tools for creditors and third parties designed to ‘enable better debt solutions’, has partnered with Equifax to launch a new feature powered by Open Banking.