Sber is accepting entries for AI Journey Contest 2021, an online artificial intelligence (AI) competition held annually with the top tech companies since 2016.

Participants are invited to register and complete the challenges until October 31. The competition winners will share the prize pool overshooting RUB 8 mn (~$110K). The authors of the best solutions will be awarded during AI Journey 2021 Conference in November.

 ONE OF THE FIRST UK EXCHANGES TO BE REGISTERED AS A CRYPTOASSET COMPANY WITH THE FCA

Industry’s leading IT automation platform now re-architected for deploying portable automation at massive scale across hybrid clouds and edge environments while shifting automation left into application development  

xpate’s next-generation payment solution Links will provide end-to-end operational risk and fraud management for Latvian bank’s payment services

Industra, Latvia’s leading SME-focused bank, has teamed up with xpate Links, an easily deployed turnkey payment gateway solution complemented by fraud control, dispute management, reporting and an extensive scope of consultancy support, to help streamline the bank’s acquiring process as it expands its payment services to meet accelerating demand. 

Everyone reading this is aware of the profound impact of coronavirus on both the general public and businesses around the world – but what can we in the payments industry do to meet the changing needs of our  post-covid world?

The pandemic has forever changed the experience of being a customer, an employee, part of society, even an individual, and changes in behaviour at scale should be expected for some time to come.

Both Bitcoin and stocks are increasingly emerging as crucial investment tools, having registered a surge in value over the past year. However, despite Bitcoin's increase in value this year, some stocks from the traditional sector have recorded a significant return on investment compared to the digital currency.

Check Point Research (CPR) discovers cyber attacks on users of PIX, the instant payment system managed by the Brazilian Central Bank. Cyber criminals tricked users into transferring their entire account balances into another bank account, by distributing two malicious applications on Google’s Play Store.

RegTech company, Napier, provider of advanced anti-financial crime compliance solutions, has announced that Simplex, the largest fiat infrastructure for the crypto industry, has opted for Napier’s Transaction Monitoring tool as part of an upgrade to its anti-money laundering (AML) defences.