•     This Golden Week, Alipay users conducted eight times as many in-store transactions overseas as they did last year.

•     Asia dominated the list of top-ten destinations in terms of transaction volume.

o     Hong Kong topped the list, followed by Thailand, Taiwan, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Macau, Malaysia, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand.

•     Asia also saw much of the fastest growth in Alipay use from last year. 

Chef, the leader in Continuous Automation, today announced availability of Habitat Builder, a SaaS-based service that provides the fastest way to package apps simply and consistently for deployment and management across flexible cloud-native architectures such as those comprising Docker Swarm, Kubernetes and Cloud Foundry, both on-premises and in-cloud. Habitat Builder gives developers and operations teams complete control over the containerised application lifecycle.

MuleSoft (NYSE: MULE), the leading platform for building application networks, today announced that financial services startup Tic:Toc has selected MuleSoft's Anypoint Platform™ to power it’s real-time home loan approval system.

SunTec, whose technology powers the financial services and is delivered to over 300 million consumers worldwide, today announced the successful validation, verification and deployment of the Xelerate on Demand Service (XoDS) on Microsoft Azure. The verification process began in March 2017 and completed in July 2017.

ClusterSeven, the leading global supplier of strategic spreadsheet and end-user computing (EUC) management software, has launched Cloud Spreadsheet Manager (CSM), an enterprise level, on-demand spreadsheet management solution. CSM will enable organisations to have complete control of their spreadsheet environment to support audit and compliance, governance and financial reporting in the most efficient and productive manner. 

Volante Technologies Inc., a global provider of payments and message integration software today announced that VolPay Hub is fully tested, qualified and integrated with TokenOS, a leading open banking platform. 

By leveraging open banking practices, Token enables banks, consumers and corporations to securely move money through its network whilst offering value-added services to members within the Token ecosystem. 

Today sees the official UK launch of Revista Systems; a new firm created to support the specialised communications needs of the financial services community. 

SWIFT and EBA CLEARING today announced that users of EBA CLEARING’s instant payment system, RT1, will be able to access the platform via SWIFTNet Instant from November 2018. 

BME, through its new technology subsidiary BME Inntech, has developed Bankia's new online securities operation as part of the digital transformation process being carried out by the financial institution.