Currencies Direct, the UK’s leading international payments provider, announced the launch of its suite of API services. 

The platform is targeted at large corporates, start-ups and service providers who want to offer a complementary service for international payments.

The API gives developers unprecedented levels of access to Currencies Direct’s digital infrastructure, that facilitates and authenticates cross-border for customers on a global scale.

NYMBUS, the world’s most advanced revenue and technology solutions company, today announced the successful business transformation of core, Internet banking, mobile banking and payment solutions for Inspire Federal Credit Union. Understanding that innovation must happen immediately to compete and survive, the Credit Union selected NYMBUS for its modern technology, open architecture and cultural fit.  

Yolt, the smart thinking money app, has released new spending insights that highlight just how much monthly bills can add up, with a large portion going toward utilities costs. 

 Money20/20 Europe is opening applications for its trailblazing Rise Up programme, which is designed to empower the next generation of women in financial services leadership. Launched in partnership with the European Women’s Payments Network (EWPN), the initiative will provide participants with thorough actionable skills, tools and learnings that will enable them to take their careers to the next level.

Fintech InstaReM, has revealed that migrant women in the UK, despite being the primary source of care for their families ‘back home’, pay up to 20% more than men to transfer money abroad. UK Migrant women are disproportionately employed in low income work, and often paid weekly, transfering money ‘little and often’ thereby incurring greater fees.

Aubrey Stearn, CTO of Digital Accelerator Platform at Nationwide Building Society, talks cloud-native benefits, risks and avoiding vendor lock-in ahead of her talk at The Cloud Migration Summit 2019 in London on May 14^th 2019.

KRM22 plc, the technology and software investment company with a particular focus on risk management in capital markets, has announced the launch of the Enterprise Risk Cockpit, its real-time enterprise risk management application for capital markets firms.

The Enterprise Risk Cockpit allows firms to eliminate cumbersome spreadsheets, improving data accuracy and provides actionable insights on enterprise risk.

Eventus Systems, Inc., a leading global trade surveillance and market risk platform provider, and the Small Exchange, a new futures exchange (pending regulatory approval) backed by award-winning innovators focused on retail customers, announced today that Eventus will provide the exchange with its mission-critical real-time market surveillance system.

For anyone attending Mobile World Congress last week, they have no doubt gone to bed dreaming of 5G networks and foldable smartphones. But dig a little deeper, and there was a lot more up for discussion (honestly). As always, the show offered insight into the big trends that really matter across payments and commerce. 

Securing IoT commerce 

ESMA has released a statement which amongst other things includes clarification for EU investment firms that they will have to publish their OTC trades via an EU APA if a UK counterparty is involved.