Björn Wahlroos has informed the Nomination Board of his intention to step down from the Board of Directors of Nordea Bank Abp. Torbjörn Magnusson is proposed to replace him as Chair of the Board of Directors. 

The Nomination Board of Nordea Bank Abp announces today its proposals to Nordea’s Annual General Meeting on 28 March 2019. The Nordea Bank Abp Board of Directors will include the proposals in the notice to the Annual General Meeting to be published later in February 2019. 

Colt Technology Services has today announced the appointment of Mark Gilmour as its Head of Mobile Connectivity Solutions.

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NatWest and innovative fintech company FreeAgent are to offer direct bank feeds of NatWest and Royal Bank accounts via the Open Banking platform, exclusively to its SME customers - a UK accounting software first.  

The improvement will give customers greater security and visibility of the finances they hold with the bank’s NatWest and Royal Bank brands, using the industry’s new Open Banking platform. This will initially be open to a select group of test users, with a wider roll-out expected later in 2019.

Divido, the multinational white-label platform for point-of-purchase lending, today announces that Nordea Finance, the largest finance company in Northern Europe, will license Divido’s platform to deliver point-of-purchase finance to retail merchants. 

Today marks the public launch of PXP Financial, a global payments expert delivering frictionless acquiring solutions built for merchants by merchants. The business is supported by a management team made up of experienced payment and corporate finance experts.

iSignthis Ltd (“the Company”), on behalf of its various Australian subsidiaries trading as ISXPay®, is pleased to announce it has entered into a number of agreements with card schemes (Tier 1) and other parties Tier 2 & 3) to allow it to continue to provide and ramp up its payment processing, clearing and settlement (“card acquiring services”) in Australia for all major card schemes, including Visa and Mastercard, as an alternative to its NAB arrangements. 

Mansfield Bank ($519 million in assets) has selected Computer Services, Inc. (CSI) (OTCQX: CSVI), a provider of end-to-end financial technology solutions, as its new core provider. 

The Wall Street Blockchain Alliance has joined enterprise software firm R3’s collaborative initiative to develop innovative applications and solutions on its Corda blockchain platform.