ULTUMUS, the leading global provider of data creation, management and distribution services for index and ETF products, today announced the hire of industry veteran Femi Orangun to its team of index and ETF specialists.

Femi has joined the ULTUMUS team as a Solutions Architect, to assist in the development of their data platform and production of advanced tooling in conjunction with the recent alliance between ULTUMUS and Velox Financial Technology. 

PelicanPay (PelicanPay.com), the innovative payments and financial crime compliance platform, today announced at Money2020 Europe a partnership with Starling Banking Services to deliver complete pan-European invoice to payables automation for small businesses together with online e-commerce merchant payment services.

Tribe Payments, a team of industry experts dedicated to delivering the future of payments, launches today and has already achieved a key milestone with UnionPay International. Tribe is among the first issuer processors in Europe to be certified to allow banks to issue UnionPay cards which have the world’s largest cardholder base.

Tribe is founded by payments veteran Suresh Vaghjiani, who has worked with a host of fintechs - including Curve, Monzo, Revolut and Starling – to deliver ground-breaking payment services.

Viva Wallet, the European payments disruptor to offer a revolutionary PIN on COTS payment solution targeting small businesses, announces further expansion to 12 new markets at Money 20/20 Europe

Viva Wallet, the first European cloud-based digital payments provider that is entirely based on Microsoft Azure, introduces a new payments app to support PIN on COTS solution offering small businesses a new way to accept payments on the go, 24/7 from any location in Europe where the company operates.

Identitii Limited (Identitii or the Company) (ASX:ID8) has become a Microsoft Corporation (Microsoft) ‘Co-Sell Ready’ partner. Achieving Microsoft Co-sell Ready status enables Identitii to direct global marketing and sales efforts towards Microsoft’s significant financial services customer base, including tier one financial institutions, to drive global sales of Overlay+.

SWIFT announces today that it has been awarded a license to provide ESMIG connectivity services from November 2021, as a Network Service Provider for the Eurosystem’s TARGET Services.

SWIFT’s appointment through the Eurosystem’s public tender process evidences both trust and confidence in SWIFT’s services as well as SWIFT’s own commitment to supporting Market Infrastructures and in driving modernisation. SWIFT supports 254 domestic and pan-regional payment systems across the world.

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Featurespace introduced Adaptive Behavioral Biometrics, which uses in-session behavioral data collected from digital channels in real time to detect and prevent fraud during customer onboarding and digital sessions.

Digix (DigixGlobal Pte. Ltd.) announces the official launch of its smart assets with Point-of-Sales solutions provider, Pundi X. This vision is made more possible and practical by the recent partnership between Digix and Pundi X, which will allow users of the Pundi X card to pay for their transactions using DGX at any XPOS-enabled counters.

Mastercard has received certifications under the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Cross Border Privacy Rules system and the Privacy Recognition for Processors system. Mastercard is now one of the few companies that have both implemented Binding Corporate Rules approved by the EU data protection authorities, and achieved the APEC certifications.