Colt Technology Services has today announced the appointment of Melanie Halsey as the Executive Vice President (EVP) – Human Resources, reporting to Carl Grivner, Colt’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and joining the companies’ Executive Leadership Team.

PrePay Solutions (PPS), subsidiary of Edenred, the global leader in payment solutions for the working world, has supported its partner, digital challenger bank, Monese, to enable the use of Apple Pay on their accounts.

OpenFin, the operating system (OS) of finance, today announced it is now offering early stage Fintech and startup businesses the Enterprise Edition of OpenFin OS at a reduced rate. Levelling the playing field, this initiative will enable early-stage businesses to build their applications on OpenFin’s OS alongside the industry’s biggest players, accelerating innovation and collaboration, the delivery and ultimately adoption of new desktop applications.

Ingenico Group (Euronext: FR0000125346 - ING), the world leader in integrated payment solutions, is supporting OPnGO, the first universal digital parking mobile application, in its development across Europe.

Figures from Accenture estimate that the point-of-sale (POS) finance space represents a $1.8 trillion opportunity for banks, and that’s just in the U.S. There are no two ways about it, retail finance represents an undeniably huge opportunity for banks. But are banks missing a trick by not being agile enough to dominate this landscape? Can they capitalise on this opportunity or will they lose out to the fintech pack who have come in and set the standard when it comes to POS finance?

In many ways, the UK is progressing towards becoming a cashless society. Despite this, there is a range of barriers threatening to undermine the UK’s ability to fully embrace this transition. From a lack of trust in new technology to a sentimental connection to existing payment methods, these barriers must be both identified and overcome if the UK is to operate in the modern climate.

ClearBank has today announced that it has been appointed by TrustPay, the Slovak-based e-commerce payments business, to provide real-time payments services to its European customer base.

Citi Treasury and Trade Solutions has forged a partnership with Vietnam-based intermediary payment service provider Payoo to facilitate last-mile consumer-to-business collections for corporate clients in the country.

On April 23-24 more than 3000 attendees from 70 countries gathered in the world’s blockchain capital — Singapore. Top crypto companies (Binance, Huobi, Listing.Help, crypto messenger ELVN and others), world famous experts (Tim Draper, Roger Ver, Alex Reinhardt and others), mining giants (Bitmain, Btc.com), representatives of key cryptocurrencies (Litecoin, Dash, Cardano, Neo and others) gave talks about the present and future of blockchain and cryptocurrencies at the 3rd Global forum in Asia.

Sysnet Global Solutions, the leading provider of cyber security and compliance solutions, was unveiled as this year’s Florin Awards ‘Excellence in RegTech’ winner in a glittering ceremony in the Louwman Museum in the Hague, the Netherlands, last night. The highly-competitive category is dedicated to championing RegTech providers whose product or service make a significant and tailored contribution to enhancing compliance in the payments industry.