Wirecard, the global innovation leader for digital financial technology, and Brightstar, a worldwide leader in device lifecycle management, have signed a Memorandum Of Understanding (MOU) with the goal of collaborating in the areas of digital consumer lending, payment acceptance processing and card issuing.

Technology company Iress today announced that Maybank Kim Eng will provide Iress’ online trading and market data software, ViewPoint, to its online trading community.

Maybank Kim Eng is the investment banking arm of Maybank. ViewPoint will be rolled out progressively to clients across Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam.

Allevo, a financial software provider, and WSO2, the leading open source integration vendor, today announced their strategic partnership in which Allevo is now a WSO2 Consultative Integration Partner. Allevo and WSO2 will collaborate with each other to ensure the successful design and delivery of open banking solutions tailored to the specific needs of banks and third-party financial service providers in Romania.

Trustly, the online banking payments company, announces today a partnership with Alibaba.com, a business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce platform that serves more than 10 million buyers in over 190 countries and regions. Trustly’s payment solution is enabled for Alibaba.com through Trustly’s partner, Ingenico, the leading global payment service provider, and will provide an additional payment method for Alibaba.com’s European buyers. During its initial stage, Alibaba.com will launch Trustly’s bank payments in 16 European markets.¹

Pegasystems Inc, the software company empowering digital transformation at the world’s leading enterprises, today announced that leading technology research and advisory firm Constellation Research has named Pega to the 

The Department for International Trade (DIT) has announced 7 British FinTech companies have been chosen for the third trade mission to Finnosummit, the largest FinTech conference in the Latin America and the Caribbean region.

The conference, which will have over 3000 entrepreneurs, financial services innovators, financial executives, and international investors in attendance, will take place in Mexico City from 9-13 September, and will offer UK FinTech firms the opportunity to:

An Interview with Richard Ransom, Head of E-ME Payments Practice at Virtusa.

1. What is the impact of a ISO20022 standard for banks, fintech vendors and end users? (both positive and negative).

The European Women Payments Network (EWPN) and the Emerging Payments Association (EPA) are working together to bolster understanding of the diversity issues that exist in the financial services sector. The first output of this partnership is a new white paper published by the EPA today – “Women in Changing Times” – which sets out a baseline in gender equality issues that will allow for the measurement of change over time.

Flywire and Vietnam Prosperity Bank (VPBank) today announced a new partnership that will simplify international tuition payments  for Vietnamese students. Working together the companies are addressing the unique requirements and nuances of the Vietnamese market and ensuring compliance with local regulations while offering students and their families greater convenience and choice.