Alibaba Cloud, the data intelligence backbone of Alibaba Group, today announced that it will invest RMB2 billion (US$283 million) during this fiscal year to empower global partners and accelerate joint innovations in the post pandemic era. The investment aims to bring its partners up to speed with digitalisation capabilities and create joint products and solutions to benefit even more customers across all sectors.

For many working online is their lifeline as we navigate the restrictions COVID-19 has placed on economies across the world. Tamas Kadar CEO of Hungarian start-up SEON, the fraud fighters, warns that many have been too slow to react to the increasing threat level posed by cybercriminals before and during the pandemic. As many industries have undergone a huge digital migration and businesses have had to rapidly respond by moving online, SEON is helping to speed up integration times associated with fraud prevention tool

The majority of financial institutions have or are developing a cloud strategy, and most are already making some use of the cloud. There are a number of reasons why the cloud is an attractive alternative to running your IT in the traditional manner of owning and operating in-house data centres, including:

As we move through the 2020, customer expectations are evolving with rapid speed. With an influx of technologies and strategies that promise increased engagement and profits, the problem lies in knowing what truly works. How do we move past this?

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ACI Worldwide (NASDAQ: ACIW), a leading global provider of real-time electronic payment and banking solutions, today announced that Banco Safra, the world’s largest privately-owned bank, will utilize ACI’s UP Retail Payments solution and UP Framework deployed in the public cloud via Microsoft Azure

Klarna, the leading global payments provider and shopping service, announced that it has been ranked fifth on the 2020 CNBC Disruptor 50 List. This is the third time CNBC has recognized Klarna as one of the most innovative companies in the world. About a third of all companies selected as Disruptors have achieved the distinction of being selected for the list more than once.

WL Payments, the trusted white-labelled global payments platform that consolidates multiple features like transaction routing and reconciliation, brings its customers Apple Pay. Apple Pay is now part of WL Payments Hosted Payment Page, which provides one-click integration for online merchants using a WL Payments partner as their payments provider. With Apple Pay on iPhone, Apple Watch, iPad, and Mac, customers can make fast and convenient purchases through the payment pages of our clients' merchants.

TransferGo, one of the world’s fastest growing money transfer companies, today announced that its global customer base has surpassed two million and continues to grow by thousands each day. The company is also announcing that it has launched in 11 new markets, with the service now available in countries including Japan, New Zealand, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, and Ghana.