Cloud9 Technologies ("Cloud9"), a leader in cloud-based communications, has partnered with Custodia, the global experts in compliance management, to provide institutional investors with a compliance framework that includes a cloud-based, turn-key solution for capturing and storing voice, video and IM communications. The partnership combines Cloud9’s C9Trader Stratus voice communication and analytics platform with Custodia’s Compliance Cloud One℠ and Custodia Assist℠.

Diginex Solutions, the disruptive impact technology company helping to solve the world’s most pressing challenges, has launched DiginexESG to help companies of all sizes and reporting experience make their ESG reporting faster, easier and more affordable. The platform also enables large organisations to collect ESG data in their B2B client network, allowing them to make more educated decisions around risk, lending, and value. 

Competition for customer loyalty, a desire for new revenue streams, and demand for supply chain resiliency are just three of the drivers behind enterprises accelerating their digital initiatives. APIs now serve as the primary building blocks for these efforts—assembling data, events, and services from within the organisation, throughout ecosystems, and across devices. But integrated legacy systems and support for new event-driven architectures also play critical roles in enabling timely, meaningful digital interactions in response to customer actions.

Spice Money, India’s leading rural fintech, has launched a dedicated assistance initiative for Covid vaccination registration to enable rural citizens to register through its dense network across 18000+ pin codes. Also the company has initiated a special drive to spread awareness and educate its banking correspondent partners (Spice Money Adhikaris) about the priority vaccination available to them, as directed by the Department of Financial Service, Ministry of Finance.

Torstone Technology, a leading SaaS provider of post-trade securities and derivatives processing, announced today that it has partnered with Digivault, a digital asset custody provider and custodial arm of Diginex, to provide Digivault’s clients with enhanced post-trade services while enabling Torstone Technology’s customers access to digital asset custody solutions.

In 2019, former President Donald Trump staged a showdown with the Universal Postal Union over China’s unfair postal rates. His resulting victory saw US packet rates increase by an average of 50% in July 2020. Ten months on, ParcelHero asks, ‘Could UPU reform be a positive legacy of Trump’s time in office?’

Engagement banking technology provider Backbase today announces it has renewed its partnership with leading UK retail and commercial challenger bank Metro Bank. The focus of the renewed partnership sees Backbase providing dedicated digital innovation support for Metro Bank’s business banking customers. By leveraging the latest cloud-native version of Backbase’s platform, which includes a vast amount of off-the-shelf accelerators for business banking, Metro Bank is able to further enhance and tailor the experience offered to its business customers. 

Nets Group has today announced a significant new appointment to its C-Suite:

James Hicks has joined Nets Group as Chief Strategic Partnerships Officer for its Merchant Services division. Based in Frankfurt, Hicks will be responsible for strategically enhancing the relationships, processes and solutions of Nets and its key strategic partners.

PXP Financial, the global expert in acquiring and payment processing services, has today published a research report ‘The COVID-19 Effect on European E-Commerce and Retail’, exploring UK and European consumer attitudes to the future of retail shopping.

George Govier has been appointed as Sales Executive at United Fintech, the firm launched by Christian Frahm in November 2020 to enable banks and financial institutions to accelerate access to innovative digital technology from a wide range of fintechs specialising in capital markets.

George Govier joins United Fintech following five years at Goldman Sachs where he worked in Prime Brokerage, within the Global Markets Division, helping European hedge fund clients to launch new funds with the bank.