FairFX, the FinTech low-cost multi-currency payments service, won the Moneywise award for Most Trusted Prepaid Card Provider at a ceremony hosted last night in London.

The company was selected over competitors in the prepaid card space such as Travelex, Thomas Cook and the Post Office. In a vote by customers and Moneywise readers, the awards recognised the UK's most trusted and best-respected companies. There were 64 businesses that reached the final awards shortlist, with the winners being selected from hundreds of thousands of customer responses.

Synchronoss, the leading innovator of cloud solutions, secure enterprise productivity and software-based activation for companies across the globe, today announces the general availability of its Secure Mobility Platform (SMP) – the combination of a highly secure application container and integrated productivity suite that together improves the productivity and performances of enterprise mobile workforces.

Designed and built using secure enterprise mobility technology contributed by Goldman Sachs through the venture announced last November, Synchronoss SMP consists of:

Only three new banks have opened in the United States since 2010.  Before the financial crisis, over 100 banks set up shop each year, on average, according to data from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the agency that approves new banks.

Why?  Why is the USA failing at banking innovation?

NetOTC, the risk solutions firm that has been designing and building a full end-to-end market infrastructure for non-cleared OTC derivatives in close collaboration with regulatory and industry bodies, banks and their end customers, today announced that it had taken the decision to put its initiative on hold.

Today the Canadian Investor Relations Institute (CIRI), Canada’s national association representing investor relations professionals, announced that it has partnered with London Stock Exchange Group’s investor relations platform, ELITE Connect, to deliver professional development via webcast making education available to investor relations professionals across Canada.

Paragon Application Systems (Paragon), the leading independent testing services provider for the financial services industry, today introduced VirtualATM®, a powerful simulator designed to replace physical ATM hardware in the test environment. With VirtualATM, customers can conduct automated testing of the entire software stack from anywhere in the world, saving time, money and manpower.

Green Dot Corporation, a pro-consumer financial technology innovator with a mission to reinvent personal banking for the masses, today announced that it has named Brooke Norton Lais to the position of Chief Marketing Officer.

Chase announced today that it has signed a multi-year agreement with Shell to accept Chase Pay at its stations across the U.S.

Chase Pay is a payment service that lets Chase credit and debit customers pay at the pump, in stores, online and within an app. Chase Pay will help Shell transform its customer payment and loyalty experience by enabling a mobile payment solution and driving Fuel Rewards®program participation.