Deutsche Bank’s guide to Instant Payments shows global trends in their development and sets out how corporates can prepare for the future of payments and treasury.

Over the past five years, Instant Payment schemes have been developed across the world, gaining the attention of consumers, banks, corporates and regulators. While initially making waves in the consumer-to-consumer space, Instant Payments have grown in global prominence for consumer-to-business and business-to-business payments, with participation in some schemes even mandatory in several countries.

Mastercard today announces a new partnership with sync. as it prepares to launch a new all in one smart banking service across the UK and Europe.

Worldline, the European market leader in payment and transaction services and the escrow payment services provider CashSentinel have combined their expertise in order to provide a payment solution tailored to meet the complex requirements of Swiss and European online marketplaces.

Worldline and CashSentinel have joined forces to offer a payment solution that fits the requirements of a wide variety of online marketplaces including traditional online marketplaces for physical products, franchise systems, self-checkout solutions and smart city apps.

Travelex, a Finablr company and market leading Foreign Exchange specialist, today announced the opening of five new currency exchange stores in Birmingham Airport. The opening of the new stores represents Travelex’s latest UK airport launch and follows a competitive bidding process. Travelex will be the sole foreign exchange provider at Birmingham Airport.

 Horizon Software (Horizon), a leading provider of electronic trading solutions and algorithmic technology, announces the integration of its algo-trading platform to Wolverine Execution Services, LLC, a leading provider of premier technology and execution services.

Finboot, the company behind the enterprise-grade blockchain solution MARCO, is pleased to announce that Geoffrey Cann has joined the company as an Advisor, as it continues to build upon its recent successes and cement its position as a leader in the enterprise blockchain arena.

Codota, a leading platform for AI-assisted software development, has completed the acquisition of TabNine, a popular code prediction tool. The acquisition creates a comprehensive AI platform for software authoring, as well as the only one which fully supports nearly all popular programming languages - Java, JavaScript, Python, C, HTML as well as many others. Codota’s platform already serves hundreds of thousands of developers every month and the number is doubling every few months.

The Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment (CISI) is delighted to congratulate Andreas Yiasemides MCSI for his appointment as President of the Cyprus Investment Funds Association (CIFA).

A CISI member, Mr Yiasemides is also a member of the CISI National Advisory Council (NAC) in Cyprus. His tenure at the CIFA is for three years.

Mr Yiasemides, a founding member of CIFA, takes over the CIFA leadership from Angelos Gregoriades who served as CIFA President for the last six years.

Saxo Bank A/S (Saxo Bank) and Geely Sweden Holdings AB, a subsidiary of Zhejiang Geely Holding Group Co. Ltd, (Geely), announced that the two parties have signed an agreement to establish a technological joint venture (JV)  to provide financial and regulatory technology solutions to financial institutions such as banks and fintechs in China. The ownership structure of the new joint venture will be an equal fifty percent split between Saxo Bank and Geely.

Businesses, large and small alike, are motivated towards efficiency and reduced costs. That is the nature of global trade: efficiency reduces expenses, and diminished costs improve the bottom line.