Forensic Risk Alliance (FRA), a forensic accounting and data governance consultancy specialising in international and complex investigations, compliance and disputes, is pleased to announce that Stuart Ells has been appointed as the firm’s first ever Chief Executive Officer.

There’s the famous adage that says, “money makes the world go round.” While there is much more to life than money, it is worth paying heed to the importance of money and financial management. The ability to understand and manage finances can have major repercussions across just about every area of one’s life.

One of the biggest Payment Service Providers (PSPs) in the Latin American market, PayRetailers, is now an official sponsor of the CONMEBOL Sudamericana, one of the most prestigious football tournaments in South America, for two seasons until 2022. This is the first time a PSP has officially sponsored a CONMEBOL club competition.

OutSystems, a global leader in modern application development, today announced the launch of new components and resources called Cloud Accelerators for Amazon Web Services (AWS) aimed at accelerating innovation as fast as business imperatives change.

The pilot phase of "Fideiussioni digitali" (digital sureties), the project promoted by CeTIF, SIA and Reply - which also saw the involvement of the Bank of Italy, the Institute for the Supervision of Insurance (IVASS) and the Italian Finance Police - to digitalize the surety management process on blockchain, has been successfully concluded. 

HIPSTO today announced the launch of its Series A Funding Round, providing the rare opportunity to invest in an organization with proprietary, leading-edge AI/advanced NLP technology as it starts its commercial journey.

SunTec Business Solutions, the world’s #1 relationship-based pricing and billing company, today announced that it has appointed Venkatesh SG as the Head of Customer Success Group. Based in Bangalore, Venkatesh will be responsible for nurturing and strengthening SunTec’s global client relationships in more than 45 countries around the world.

Goal Group, the global fintech leader in withholding tax reclamation and securities class action recovery services, has announced the appointment of Tom Grande as Managing Director, Head of Institutional Sales, Americas. He will lead Goal’s rapidly expanding New York sales team and focus primarily on helping the company meet the strong market demand for its securities class actions services among large institutional investors. 

FSS (Financial Software and Systems), a leading global provider of integrated payment products and a payment processor, is to collaborate with Zwipe to bring next generation contactless payment cards to issuers globally. Zwipe is a payment FinTech recognized for having pioneered the development of biometric payments and has delivered many successful pilots around the world.

Monevo, the market leading personal credit platform & API, has released an independent report on UK Banks and Fintechs setting out the business case for developing closer partnerships and defining exactly how customers are set to benefit.