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”). 

KR1 plc ("KR1" or the "Company") a leading digital asset investment company, is pleased to announce that it has made the following investments:

Vega Protocol

The Company has invested a total of US$100,000 into the Vega Protocol ("Vega") seed round. In addition, KR1 has entered into an advisory agreement to provide expertise on varied aspects of bringing the new and innovative Vega platform to market. Across both the investment and advisory agreement, KR1 will receive a total of 1.017% of Vega tokens issued.

Ingenico Group, the global leader in seamless payments, announced the appointment of Stéphanie Fougou as Group General Counsel and General Secretary of the Board. Stéphanie Fougou joins Ingenico’s Executive Committee and reports to Group’s CEO Nicolas Huss. She is based in Paris.

Consumers in developing countries are increasingly entering the banking system and expansion of the banked population in China is a major contributor to UnionPay’s gain in global market share

Government-backed financial inclusion programmes driving growth