Western Union, a leader in cross-border, cross-currency money movement and payments, today launched its digital platform - 

MICRON INSIGHT — Micron Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: MU), today introduced the industry’s first silicon-based security-as-a-service platform for protecting internet of things (IoT) edge devices. The new Micron^® Authenta^TM Key Management Service (KMS) platform enables a cloud-first deployment model for a broad set of industrial and automotive applications.

Digital banking leaders, Backbase and Payveris, have partnered to provide financial institutions with integrated digital payments and money movement solution. The combined offering will enable financial institutions of all sizes to deliver next generation payment and money movement services that businesses and consumers demand: a fast, low-friction user experience that makes it easy to take care of all of their bill payment and money movement needs.

Chargebacks911, the award-winning FinTech cybersecurity that manages 200 million online transactions per month and has helped its clients recover $1+ billion in disputed revenue, announced today the opening of its newest corporate offices. Located in Boise, Idaho, this expansion is expected to help Chargebacks911 better-serve its growing client-base, which consists of merchants, e-stores and businesses in 87 countries worldwide.

Global fintech leader Avaloq has become a member of the Fintech Alliance, the fast-growing London-based hub of UK and global technology firms, investors and financial services institutions. The membership reflects the strong growth of Avaloq’s UK presence and client base, and comes at a time when London has become one of the world’s leading fintech and investment centres. Through being a member, Avaloq expects to further increase its footprint in the UK as well as identify additional fintechs to co-innovate with.

Research from Ivalua, a leading provider of global spend management cloud solutions, has shown that almost three quarters (74%) of UK businesses have encountered some type of supply chain risk in the last 12 months. The most common threats organisations faced include supplier failure (48%), supply shortage (46%) and environmental impact, such as pollution or waste (33%).

“A recent McKinsey survey found that the CFO’s role has become broader and more complex than even 2 years ago.  Today’s CFO has an average of 6.2 reporting functional areas with a corresponding increase in responsibilities including board engagement and taking the lead in digital transformation initiatives.” In order to adapt to the constant changes within the role, a modern CFO must be passionate about innovation and value creation.

Today, leading provider of digital Client Lifecycle Management (CLM) solutions Fenergo, has announced the results of new research which reveals that slow and manual onboarding processes could lead to commercial and business banks individually losing $4.5bn in revenue if they don’t bring their technology and systems up to date.

Quadient, the award-winning leader in Customer Communications Management (CCM), today announced a reseller partnership with digital and customer experience transformation experts Espire. The deal builds on Espire’s experience providing Quadient’s professional services, and will allow it to resell and support Quadient’s cutting-edge customer experience solutions to banking, insurance, travel, education, telecoms and utilities sectors across the UK & Ireland, Nordics and Benelux.

Couchbase today announced accelerated adoption of its enterprise-class, multicloud to edge NoSQL database as the company closed a record total of new logo bookings during the first half of fiscal 2020. Product innovation and strategic partnerships, together with a growing number of enterprises with specific requirements for their business-critical applications, were behind the strong customer interest and adoption.