Today, payments infrastructure company Stripe announced a series of updates to its product stack for businesses operating in Europe, and acquired a Dublin-based tech company called Touchtech Payments.

Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (NYSE:BR), a global Fintech leader and part of the S&P 500®Index, today announced it has entered into a purchase agreement to acquire the retirement plan custody and trust assets from TD Ameritrade Trust Company, a subsidiary of TD Ameritrade Holding Company (Nasdaq: AMTD).

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) announced the release of a new paper addressing issues of trade failures in the institutional post-trade marketplace where greater technology adoption could help with growing problems in an era of cost pressures, heightened regulatory requirements, and increasing cyber security focus.

Surecomp, the global trade finance fintech leader, announced today the inauguration of SureLab, Surecomp’s newly established innovation lab. SureLab was established to centralize Surecomp’s digitization initiatives thereby enabling Surecomp to maintain its position at the forefront of trade finance innovations. SureLab aims to introduce new technologies to the digital trade finance arena.

Glue42, the company bringing an entirely new desktop experience to financial institutions, expands its desktop ecosystem with new fintech providers. New partners include independent software vendors (ISVs) Adaptable Tools and BCC Group, and service provider NORMAN & SONS. 

Yooz, an international provider of intelligent P2P software in the Cloud, today announced the launch of YoozProtect, a new functionality to assist in the automatic detection of fraudulent and forged documents and enhance regulation compliance for UK businesses.

Processing.com is proud to celebrate its ongoing partnership with gaming operator Campeon Gaming Partners. The European-based company has been in business for just over a year, but has already made a splash in the industry, winning Best New Casino at the 2018 AskGamblers Awards.

NCR Corporation (NYSE: NCR), a global enterprise technology provider for the financial industry, today announced that New Jersey-based Provident Bank has selected NCR Digital Banking to support their digital strategy for customer growth and retention.

Provident Bank looked to improve the customer experience through better capabilities, a more intuitive design and easy integration with their core banking systems.  As recently reported in Magnify Money, NCR’s Digital Banking platform powers five of the top ten mobile banking applications in the U.S.

Ameen Al-Iraq Islamic Bank for Investment and Finance (known as: Ameen Al-Iraq) has just signed for Path Solutions’ iMAL Islamic core banking platform in preference to other core banking systems for its new digital banking business in Iraq. The contract signing took place in Beirut, Lebanon.

It’s already Q2! It has been a momentous few months for biometrics, so it’s not surprising the year is passing so quickly. New products launched, new milestones reached, and new market trials initiated. Biometrics is expanding and advancing rapidly – both in its existing markets and applications, and in new ones.

Not sure what you’ve missed? Here’s my run-down of the big biometrics news stories that have started the year.

Biometric payment cards ‘go large’