The African Development Bank (AfDB) and the African Securities Exchanges Association (ASEA) signed a 5-year Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to amplify the impact of their strategically aligned joint efforts to promote resources mobilization to fund Africa’s economic growth. This MoU will provide a collaborative framework for harmonizing and coordinating the efforts of AfDB, the premier international development financial institution for Africa, and ASEA, the premier body of African stock exchanges, towards deepening and connecting African financial markets.

With the payment method, Amazon Payments, over 300 million Amazon customers worldwide can make an order online with just a few clicks, without having to complete the registration process on the online store. Customers simply login using their Amazon account during checkout, select a delivery address and payment method stored in their Amazon user account and click the purchase button.

 Fiserv announced the appointment of John Kim to its board of directors.

EMVCo, the global payment specification body, and the FIDO Alliance, an industry consortium developing open, interoperable authentication standards, have announced they will collaborate and review how FIDO authentication standards can support EMV® payment use cases. A key aim of the initiative is to investigate providing simpler and stronger authentication for cardholders making mobile payments using on-device authenticators, such as biometrics, thereby reducing consumer fraud globally while maintaining a good consumer experience. 

 ABBYY, a leading provider of recognition, data capture and language-based text analytics technologies today announced the availability of a new Business Monitoring add-on for solutions built using the ABBYY FlexiCapture platform. Providing service level metrics, real-time processing information, and historical process data, the Business Monitoring module adds transparency to business processes so that an organisation can more effectively monitor operational performance and gain insights which they can use to drive greater efficiency.

Contego, the multi-source fraud detection platform, today announced that it had achieved the Cyber Essentials PLUS certification, a government backed, industry supported scheme to help organisations protect themselves against cyber attacks.

For many organisations, cross-platform mobility will be their biggest investment in 2016. It is considered to be revolutionising how businesses manage processes and remain efficient in very competitive environments.

In a country where mobile devices outnumber people, Bangkok Bank knows its mobile banking applications must meet the needs of its 1.3 million mobile customers, wherever and however they live.

 DTCC-Euroclear GlobalCollateral Ltd, a joint venture (JV) of Euroclear and The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), today announced that State Street Corporation has agreed to participate in a pilot program to test the JV’s Margin Settlement Messaging Service.

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