Masterpass-enabled bots work across multiple verticals – from restaurants to retail – making conversational commerce frictionless while delivering a more personalized experience. The bots allow consumers to engage with brands in new places where they are already spending their time, as messaging apps and platforms like Messenger currently represent many of the top 10 global apps used by billions of people worldwide.

Synpromics Ltd, the leading synthetic promoter and gene control company, is delighted to announce that it has completed a financing round of £5.2M.

Today the Western Union Company, a global payments leader, announced an innovative and compelling way for Facebook Messenger users in the U.S. to send money to more than 200 countries and territories across 130 currencies. The announcement was made at the F8 Facebook Developer Conference in San Jose, California.

The funds can be received into billions of bank accounts around the world or in cash at half a million global retail Agent locations from the world’s largest metro areas to remote villages. More than 1.2 billion people around the world use Messenger every month.

Today banking challenger Revolut has teamed up with the UK’s first online mortgage broker Trussle to give users direct access to its mortgage broking service, which searches thousands of products from over 90 lenders to find the most suitable deal for a borrower.

Today Hanweck, a leading provider of real-time risk analytics on global derivatives markets, revealed the integration of its Volera platform with its product formerly known as the Premium Hosted Database (PhD). 

As of 2015, the generation known as ‘millennials’ – those born between 1981 and 2005 - is the largest generation in history, surpassing the so-called Baby Boomers, one of the most important generations of our time, according to Pew Research Center.

Coupa Software (NASDAQ:COUP), a leader in cloud-based spend management, today announced that Gulf International Bank (GIB) has selected Coupa’s Purchase to Pay (P2P) and Expense Management solution. By implementing Coupa, GIB aims to improve the process of managing all types of business spend including streamlining supplier collaboration, enhancing the employee experience and improving financial visibility and control.

InvestCloud Inc., a global FinTech firm, has released its latest series of financial apps to run on the InvestCloud digital platform. Building on the existing InvestCloud Navy product, the new release includes new app-based functionality for the digital platform specifically designed to better meet the needs of the pension, endowment and foundation (PEF) sector.

HCL Technologies (HCL), a leading global IT services company, today announced the renewal of its transformational IT services engagement with Singapore Exchange for another five years.  Singapore Exchange is Asia’s leading and trusted market infrastructure, operating equity, fixed income and derivatives markets to the highest regulatory standards.

OCC, the world's biggest equity derivatives clearing organization, today announced that David Hoag, a technology executive with nearly 25 years of information systems and development experience, will join OCC as Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, effective from May 1st.