Bango (AIM: BGO), the mobile payments company, announces that following the successful launch of Direct Carrier Billing (DCB) for Amazon retail customers in Japan (June 2017), it has expanded DCB availability to Japanese customers of Amazon Prime and Prime Student membership programmes.

Path Solutions, a leader in banking software systems with a strong focus on the Islamic banking sector, has won the ‘Best Islamic Technology Provider’ award at the 2017 Islamic Finance news Awards. The company is winning the award for the tenth successive year and eleventh time in total.

Digital signature pioneer, Cryptomathic, today announces the launch of Digital Signatures for Dummies, a new book providing a clear and straight forward introduction to the complex world of digital signatures.

The book demystifies the major concepts that underpin the security of digital systems and provides guidance for business and IT professionals seeking to further their understanding of digital signature technology, together with how it can be selected, deployed and managed effectively.  

Financial IT interviews Chris Donnachie, COO of UniZest at TechDay London 2017

Today Rambus Inc. announced that eftpos, the Australian domestic debit network, is using the Rambus Token Service Provider (TSP) technology to securely digitize payment cards to support Android Pay. The proven and trusted Rambus TSP platform enables eftpos to maintain consumer data securely through tokenization, which allows the replacement of sensitive data with unique reference numbers so information is not compromised. 

In the world of software development, machine learning and artificial intelligence is the hot subject, and might very well continue to be so even in to 2018, since the trend shows no signs of slowing down.

There is a very early emergence of Chatbot capabilities being enriched by Blockchain. There are three distinctive use cases: 

 Conversational Customer Consent

Certain types of Chatbots provide a viable alternative to dense ‘legal’ content such as Terms of Conditions or Financial Product Conditions. This is relevant where there are customer choices that impact the outcome. As examples: 

eftpos today announced that eftpos is now available on Android Pay, with ANZ and Cuscal being the first Australian financial institutions to make the service available to eftpos-only cardholders.

Zilliqa, a high-speed blockchain platform from researchers at the National University of Singapore, has today announced a strategic partnership with FBG Capital, one of the world’s leading digital asset management firms.