Global Fintech Solutions (GFS), a fintech platform aimed at transferring leading global technologies into emerging markets, raised a new funding round from several funds under the management of Da Vinci Capital and from its the portfolio group, ITI Funds. Investment group Prytek was a co-investor in the investment round. 

Sberbank and SAP have announced the completion of a major HR digital transformation project that utilises the SAP Success Factors cloud solution. The system is currently used by 230,000 of the bank’s employees in Russia. 

Stash, the financial services platform that's revolutionizing saving and investing, today announced its partnership with Green Dot Corporation and its subsidiary bank, Green Dot Bank, Member FDIC, to launch mobile-first banking services to help millions of Americans reach their dreams of financial security and prosperity. 

Symantec Corp., one of the world's leading cyber security companies, and NTT Security, the specialized security company of NTT Group, have announced their intention to enter into a strategic partnership to bolster web security services offerings to customers across the cloud, mobile and on-premises.

The Business Intelligence Group today announced that CSPi's ARIA Software Defined Security (SDS) platform has won the 2018 Fortress Cyber Security Awards for the Innovative Security Product category.

3W Infra, a fast growing Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) hosting provider from Amsterdam with global operations and more than 4,600 dedicated servers under management, has added the Asteroid Internet Exchange Point (IXP) to its ecosystem of network infrastructure providers. Under the signed cooperation agreement, 3W Infra will interconnect its high-volume (160 Gbps) global network with Asteroid’s IXP in Amsterdam.

Sigma Designs, a leading provider of intelligent system-on-chip (SoC) solutions for connected smart home IoT, is proud to announce a cumulative lifetime 100M Z-Wave modules have shipped into the smart home market. With hundreds of customers shipping over 2,400 interoperable Z-Wave devices, Sigma Designs is pleased to highlight that the recipient of the 100 millionth module was the smart home service provider and long-time customer of Sigma Designs, Vivint Smart Home.  

Cisco announced the appointment of Mark Garrett, former Adobe Systems Incorporated EVP and CFO, to its board of directors effective immediately.

BOS SaaS cloud service has been "pressure-tested" by a global major player with extreme load peaks of up to 66 IDs per second, delivering a record-breaking average (fully automated end-to-end) processing speed of 4.5 seconds per image. Only AU10TIX BOS 2nd generation ID authentication & Onboarding platform can perform, in an average of 4.5 seconds, a complete process of ID image screening, optimization, auto-classification, content extraction and forensic-level forgery, counterfeiting and risk flag detection.

It is safe to say there has been a proliferation of newly launched banking APIs (application programming interfaces) in the last few years. From Europe to Asia Pacific, more and more financial institutions are embracing the open banking movement and it can be difficult to track new releases. Recently, while conducting research, I came across openbankingapis.io: a website tracking banking API efforts around the globe.