Form3, the cloud technology provider of Payments-as-a-Service processing for banks and regulated financial services businesses, today announced that it is working with Tandem, a digital-only challenger bank, to help bring significant further improvements to the user experience for its customers.

The FX provider has completed a successful trial of Ripple’s xRapid solution, which allows international money transfers to be made in seconds

Currencies Direct has todaqy announced a successful trial of Ripple’s xRapid platform. 

This is one of the first successful trials of a digital asset by a mainstream financial services organisation. It marks a departure from the speculative trading of cryptocurrencies that has dominated the marketplace thus far and a shift towards the intended purpose of digital assets – as a means of value transfer.

Payment technology company, Payworks, announced today its collaboration with Visa to integrate Payworks’ payment technology into the CyberSource payment management platform to enable an integrated Point of Sale solution and offer omnichannel payment processing capabilities to merchants worldwide.

TransferMate, the world’s leading cross-border B2B payments provider, today announced the launch of Global Receivables, a new solution for businesses to bill and collect overseas payments from thousands of customers in seconds.

TORA, provider of the industry’s most advanced cloud-based order and execution management system (OEMS), today announced that it has partnered with Trax, the post-trade services and European market data division of MarketAxess, to help their mutual clients meet MiFID II trade and transaction reporting requirements.

Deal complements ITRS’ existing real-time monitoring and investigation technology, meeting customer demand to prevent outages and reduce costs

ITRS Group, the leading provider of real-time monitoring and IT operations analytics, has announced it has acquired capacity management firm, Sumerian. The move comes after a successful nine-month partnership with Sumerian and the development of ITRS Insights Capacity Planner.

Business payment innovator, Modulr, is today announcing that it has joined Innovate Finance, the membership association for the global fintech sector, which is supported by the City of London and Broadgate.

Bank of Montreal (BMO), a Canadian financial services leader for more than 200 years, hosted Artificial Intelligence (AI) and tech professionals from Canada and Hong Kong to unveil innovative AI technology and applications.

After nine years serving in senior positions in Nordea, Head of Personal Banking Sweden and Country Senior Executive Sweden, Anna Storåkers has decided to leave Nordea.

“After many great years at Nordea and in my mid-career phase, I have decided that it is time for me to think about the next phase of my career. This is a personal decision. I will stay in Nordea over the coming months to ensure a smooth transition”, says Anna Storåkers.

Digital-first direct banks outperforming the top 50 global banks on key performance metrics including privacy, security and problem solving

 Mobile now considered the main branch for banking for anyone under the age of 53

Direct bank users three times more likely to trust a technology company to provide a financial mobile app over their bank