A new savings tracker, published today by SME-focussed Allica Bank, has shown a continued significant gap between the rates SMEs are offered by challenger banks and their larger, incumbent competition.

Temenos today announced that Oman Housing Bank (OHB), a leading provider of housing finance in Oman, has selected Temenos to modernize its core banking platform in the cloud to develop new products faster and widen access to housing finance for Omanis.

Capital.com, the high-growth global trading platform and fintech group whose trading volumes surpassed USD$1trn in 2023, has announced that it is joining the UAE’s #NextGenFDI initiative for digitally-enabled businesses as it opens a new subsidiary, Capital Com MENA Securities Trading LLC (Capital Com MENA), based in the UAE.

Viamericas Corporation, a licensed, international remittance company, has launched international bill pay in Guatemala to make cross-border bill payments convenient, simple, and faster. The bill pay solution offers easy, fast and efficient payment options for cable, residential phone lines, Wi-Fi and a wide range of utilities, including water, gas and electricity, with support for the most requested companies.

Zilch, the world’s first ad-subsidized payments network (ASPN), today announces it has selected Checkout.com, the digital payments solution provider, as its primary acquiring partner globally, with a particular focus on the UK and USA.

Mutual Trust Bank Limited (MTB) in Bangladesh is launching biometric payment cards based on IDEX Pay, the biometric solution from IDEX Biometrics.

Zscaler, Inc., the leader in cloud security, today announced the release of its 2024 AI Security Report, which draws on more than 18 billion AI transactions across the Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange™ cloud security platform from April 2023 to January 2024. Zscaler ThreatLabz researchers analyzed how enterprises use AI/ML tools and mapped trends across sectors and geographies, highlighting how businesses are adapting to the shifting AI landscape and managing security around the use of AI tools.

Quant, the blockchain for finance pioneer, today launched new pricing plans and functionality aimed at enterprise IT users and developers tasked by their business lines with implementing blockchain technology as part of their organisation’s wider digital asset strategy.

Apiture, a leading provider of digital banking solutions, today announced that NWSB (The New Washington State Bank), a community financial institution serving customers in Southern Indiana since 1908, has selected the Apiture Digital Banking Platform to power its online and mobile banking solutions.