Alibaba Cloud, the data intelligence backbone of Alibaba Group, and Animal Logic, one of the world’s leading independent creative digital studios, have announced a partnership to meet the growing and demanding requirements of media production. Animal Logic has started backing-up its on-premise production content onto Alibaba Cloud’s world-class computing platform. Through this partnership, the parties hope to drive efficiencies of media production by utilising more cloud computing technologies.

 Finastra today announced the appointment of Mehjabeen Poonawala as its new Head of India. In this new expanded role, Mehjabeen is responsible for driving Finastra’s growth strategy and deepening the company’s partnerships and footprint in India, in addition to her existing roles as Site Lead for Pune and Head of Finastra’s Agile Center of Excellence.

Open Banking Expo is unveiling global digital banking strategist Jim Marous as the keynote speaker at its London Expo on 13^th November 2019.

Jim Marous is an internationally recognised financial industry strategist, co-publisher of The Financial Brand and owner and publisher of the Digital Banking Report. He advises clients on innovation, portfolio growth, customer experience, payments and digital transformation within the financial services industry. Notably, he has previously advised the White House on banking policy.

Target Group, the operational transformation, business process servicing and software provider has announced that Ian Larkin steps down as CEO of the business at the end of the year. After five years at the helm, Ian has led Target through a huge transformation by doubling the business size, broadening its client base and overseeing the change of ownership to Tech Mahindra.

Smartphones are central to our daily lives. We manage our personal and business affairs, watch movies, track our health and, increasingly, make payments. Adoption of mobile payments is rising considerably worldwide, with predictions estimating it’ll be the second most popular way to pay by 2022.

For banks and other issuers, delivering mobile payments is becoming increasingly imperative. There’s a crucial choice to make, though - support the Giant Pays or go it alone.

AxiomSL, the industry’s leading provider of regulatory reporting and risk management solutions,today announces an agreement with Genpact, a global professional services firm focused on delivering digital transformation, to empower financial firms (FIs) to efficiently implement IntegratedModelView on the AxiomSL platform.

Trading Technologies International, Inc. (TT), a global provider of high-performance professional trading software, infrastructure and data solutions, today announced the hiring of two new executives: Russ Cotton as chief operating officer and Craig Mohan as chief growth officer. Both hires will start work next month.

MackeyRMS, the leading provider of next-generation research management software, today announced integrations with messaging applications Symphony, Slack and Microsoft Teams.

Policy-makers at a number of central banks around the world are seriously considering developing and issuing a central bank digital currency (CBDC), with a consumer-ready CBDC likely to arrive in the next five years.

Commerzbank AG published the offer document relating to the voluntary public acquisition offer for all the outstanding shares of comdirect bank Aktiengesellschaft (“comdirect”).