Aschheim (Munich). The Wirecard Group has started a cooperation with My.com – a company building an integrated communication and entertainment platform that offers a family of games and mobile apps, including MAPS.ME and myMail. As payment service provider, Wirecard enables a consistent payment experience across different countries. My.com, a subsidiary of the Russian Mail.Ru Group, benefits from the opportunity to enable global credit card payments via the Wirecard platform.

SETL, the London based institutional payment and settlement infrastructure based on blockchain technology, announced the completion of its first round of private fundraising today.

I tried to make some allowance for ANZ running a 40-year-old core system yesterday, by pointing to the fact that people are slow to change and there may well be no compelling reason to switch a legacy system.

Even though I’ve tried to make the case many times:

The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) Board of Administration announced today that it has named Marcie Frost as the Pension Fund's new chief executive officer (CEO).

Frost, 51, is a 16-year veteran of the pension industry, having most recently served as the director of the Washington State Department of Retirement Systems (DRS). She will start her new role with CalPERS on October 3, 2016, replacing Anne Stausboll who retired at the end of June. Doug Hoffner will serve as interim CEO.

CareCredit, a leading provider of promotional healthcare financing, today announced the expansion of an existing relationship to a multi-year agreement with Vision Group Holdings, which oversees and manages two of the leading LASIK surgery providers: The LASIK Vision Institute (LVI) and TLC Laser Eye Centers.

This is a common-sense ruling overriding the lower courts mistaken judgement that the USA court system had supremacy over all other countries sovereignty and judicial systems.    The effect internationally had this ruling been upheld would have been a massive chilling of relations with American businesses across the globe and the American Judiciary would have been lining itself up for a significant fight with the European Union over data privacy laws.

Sitecore and Microsoft announced that the two companies plan to expand their long-standing strategic alliance to enrich Sitecore's Microsoft Azure cloud offerings over the next two years. Under the expanded partnership, customers will be able to take advantage of the speed and scale of Azure's powerful cloud platform to achieve greater digital transformation at a much faster pace.

Canadian Union of Postal Workers say there are issues on the table, including bringing back postal banking, an idea which has just been rejected by the big bank lobby.

"We're not surprised that the big banks, which raked in a $35 billion profit last year by gouging Canadians with some of the highest fees in the world, would oppose a public banking option," said Mike Palecek, president of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers.

Kinaxis, provider of RapidResponse®, delivering cloud-based SCM and S&OP applications, has been named a 'Great Supply Chain Part