Saxo Bank, the leading Fintech specialist focused on multi-asset trading and investment, today announces that Vitali Butbaev will rejoin Saxo Bank in the role as CEO of Central and Eastern Europe. Vitali Butbaev has worked with Saxo Bank for 13 years in previous roles. 

Vitali Butbaev will report directly to Damian Bunce, CCO of Saxo Bank. 

Coupa Software, a leader in business spend management (BSM), today announced new product innovations to advance the company’s BSM capabilities. Debuted at its annual Inspire conference in San Francisco, the innovations include enhancements to community intelligence, third-party systems, and user-centric experiences that will provide businesses even more visibility into spend, processes, and performance. 

FIME and Barnes International today announce that their jointly-developed personalization validation tool (PVT) is qualified against the latest Mastercard PVT Tool Release 2018 Requirements v11.3 March 2018, (“Mastercard Requirements”). FIME believes that the test tool significantly accelerates the certification and launch of secure chip products for issuers, card manufacturers and personalization bureaus.

The Chargeback Company™, known as Chargebacks911® in the United States, announced today that it has hired chargeback expert Craig McClure from Visa.

LitiGate, a Tel Aviv-based legal tech venture, is collaborating with three leading law firms to further develop and test a litigation platform that uses artificial intelligence ('AI') to automate legal research and argument assessment in relation to High Court applications.

Taylor Wessing, Baker McKenzie and Mishcon de Reya (MDR LAB) have been approached to collaborate with LitiGate for their extensive experience in dispute resolution and continued investment in technology.  

bRealTime and Clearstream have merged to form EMX, a new programmatic marketplace. EMX will offer more powerful media solutions across supply, demand and data to publishers, advertisers, ad tech providers and agencies, including increased efficiencies, heightened transparency and an overall lift in ROI. 

Hitachi Vantara, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE:6501), today introduced new innovations to drive data center modernization. Hitachi unveiled new high-performance storage systems in the industry's only storage family with a 100% data availability guarantee, and integrated, and cross-platform AI-powered analytics and IT automation software.

Rambus Inc. today announced the launch of its Payment Account Tokenization solution to secure account-based transactions, such as automated clearing house (ACH) and real-time payments.