Mogo Finance Technology Inc. (TSX: GO) ("Mogo") announcedthe launch of its new Mogo®Account and iOS mobile app, setting a new standard for what consumers expect in a digital banking experience. With a three-minute account opening experience and instant access to three innovative products, including a free credit score1, the first free credit score in Canada that will be available with free monthly updates, Mogo has achieved a major milestone on its quest to build the best digital banking experience in Canada. 

Miles Software announced that Land Bank of the Philippines, one of the top 5 banks in Philippines, has gone live with Money Ware Custody Solution.

Land Bank of the Philippines launched its custody operations in the country recently. This license has enabled the bank to establish a fully-equipped custodian service, offering tailored services for a wide spectrum of financial activities with a comprehensive suite of products, services and tools.

Guardian Analytics announced the launch of the industry's first real-time ACH real-time solution to protect against fraud risk created by Same Day ACH.  By monitoring originated or received files including batches and batch entries for suspicious behavior, Guardian Analytics ACH-ODFI Real-time and ACH-RDFI Real-time solutions intervene by automatically holding high-risk batches for further review, and expediting low risk batches for further processing.

Extreme real-time banking analytics specialist CustomerXPs' today announced its Clari5 real-time Intraday Liquidity Monitoring Solution for Banks - a packaged, ready-to-deploy solution to help banks in the UAE achieve timely compliance with BCBS 248 requirements for Intraday Liquidity Risk Management. Besides mitigating intraday liquidity risk, banks in the UAE can now expect complete compliance with the BCBS 248 regulation in time for the January 2017 deadline.

Bluefin Solutions announced that it is offering its clients access to SAP S/4HANA® in the public cloud, as part of the lighthouse reference program with SAP. This provides customers with full access to a vast range of SAP® products when moving to SAP S/4HANA, from the highly flexible and controlled on-premise version of SAP S/4HANA to the subscription-based SAP S/4HANA Cloud, which offers fast deployment and reduced total cost of ownership.

EQ Investors announces that its specialist Positive Impact Portfolios are now available to advisers through the Alliance Trust Savings platform. The addition of EQ’s discretionary managed portfolios, which provide access to socially responsible investments alongside attractive financial returns, brings impact investing to Alliance Trust Savings’ platform for the first time.

paysafecard, a global market leader in the online prepaid payments sector, has been integrated as a payment method in the new Safemoni app from TransferTo. Safemoni makes it possible to top up prepaid mobile phones anywhere in the world in real time. The Safemoni app is an international mobile phone top-up service with paysafecard as a payment method. It is now available for Android and from the Apple App Store in the UK as well as in many other countries, including Spain, France, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, and Austria.

Q2 Holdings, Inc., a leading provider of secure, cloud-based virtual banking solutions for regional and community financial institutions, announced  that longtime financial services industry veteran Bob Michaud has joined the company as chief security officer. He will oversee IT audit, risk and compliance activities at Q2.

Banks should avoid treating the delivery of CMA and PSD2 APIs as just another compliance project and instead take the same approach as when delivering new customer products such as mobile banking apps or mortgages

There are a number of base blockchain platforms that are important in the payments sphere, with the three leading players being Bitcoin, Ethereum and Ripple.  These are the base development platforms, rather than a payments service per se, and choosing which to use is intriguing as they all offer something different.  Bearing in mind that a blockchain has to have currency to operate, each has its own.  Ripple has XRP; Ethereum has Ether; and Bitcoin has bitcoins.  Ripple is fairly banks specific, whilst general digital currency start-ups need to choose between bitcoins and ethers.