Monex, Inc., one of Japan’s largest online trading brokers, has chosen Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (NYSE: BR) to support its Japanese equity and investment trust processing business. Through Broadridge’s JASDEC (Japan Securities Depository Center, Inc.) Processing Solution, Monex will strengthen its retail trading and client services in support of its future growth strategy.

Merchants, ISOs, payment gateways and terminal providers around the world are set to gain efficiencies and make substantial savings thanks to the launch of TNSConnect2All, a new global message translation conversion service, from Transaction Network Services (TNS).

 Stratus Technologies, Inc. is extending its commitment to Industrial Automation worldwide with the Stratus Always-On Infrastructure for IIoT. Providing a proven always-on foundation for IIoT deployments, the Stratus solution features Stratus ftServer^® technology with VMware vSphere^® 6, as well as application monitoring and OPC integration.

Today at the inaugural European Money 20/20 in Copenhagen, Azimo, the digital money transfer company, announced the launch of its service in Denmark and Sweden, increasing the countries it serves to 22. Through a strategic partnership with European online payments service provider Trustly, hard-working migrants can now send Danish Krone (DKK) and Swedish Krona (SEK) from their mobile or desktops to family and friends in over 190 countries worldwide.  

“Perfect Storm Digital 2”, “Premier Service Driver 2”, “Paradigm Shift Dynamic 2”? OK, they may never catch on as advertising slogans. But they all go some way to capturing the sense of excitement and opportunity that should be at the heart of how the European finance industry views and prepares for PSD2. For this is, emphatically, not just another piece of regulatory process. Viewed from the right perspective, it is not even a “threat” to heartland retail banking payments and account data supremacy. So what is it then?

It is with great pleasure that my colleague Ali Mentesh and I, will be presenting at the IFINTEC conference in Istanbul on April 12/13. The conference, covering the financial technology space in the EMEA region with a particular focus on Turkey, aims to highlight the latest banking technology to over 1000 delegates.

TransferTo, a B2B mobile payment network has appointed Lee Kheng Nam to its Board of Directors, to enhance the company’s online security expertise. Lee, a Venture Partner at GGV Capital, has many years of online security experience, with particular expertise in the mobile sector.

Lee has sat on a number of boards for companies such as InsideSecure and Gemplus (now Gemalto), and currently serves as Deputy Chairman of Vertex Venture Holdings, subsidiary of Temasek Holdings.  He is also a Venture Partner of GGV Capital.

PayU, the leading payment service provider within fast-growing countries, analyses the transaction trends and potential of the 16 growth markets in which it physically operates in order to further shape the company’s business strategy under new CEO, Laurent Le Moal.

‘’Ecommerce growth within emerging countries is two times bigger than in most established regions’’, states Laurent Le Moal, CEO of PayU. ‘’These evolving markets make way for many business opportunities, provided that merchants adapt their offering to local habits and requirements.’’

SWIFT announces today that 21 banks have started the pilot for its global payments innovation initiative, intended to improve the customer experience in correspondent banking by increasing the speed, transparency and predictability of cross-border payments.

GoSwiff releases a new line of business to support mobile network operators (MNOs) in omni-channel payments. Alternative payment methods offer a great opportunity for MNOs to differentiate their proposition to the market and to develop additional services, leveraging the existing merchant accounts and getting new ones on board.