Pleo is evolving – and perhaps the most important change is our new cards.

Organizations have invested billions into collecting and extracting value from data, yet the IDC recently found that 73% of an organization’s time-to-insight is spent searching for and preparing data, while only 27% is spent on actual analysis.

Baton Systems, a provider of "blockchain-inspired" bank-to-bank payments infrastructure for connecting multiple ledgers, has topped up its recent $12 million funding round with an extra $4 million from VC Illuminate Financial.

Citi's consumer business has introduced a digital wealth investment tool for clients with as little as $1500 to invest.

Banca Comerciala Romana (BCR) has joined the Instant Payments service offered by TransFond, with Allevo support. The service ensures the transfer of money between banks in less than 10 seconds, the maximum accepted value of a payment being 50,000 romanian lei. Such payment can be made at any time (24/7/365) between the clients of the banks participating in the Instant Payments service.

Ian Smith, Group Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Virgin Money UK PLC, will join Nordea as Group CFO and Head of Group Finance. He will also become a member of the Group Leadership Team.

FIME has been accredited to test biometric components in line with FIDO Alliance’s Biometric Component Certification Program. The accreditation enables device manufacturers and solution providers to ensure the quality and performance of biometric authentication solutions including fingerprint, facial, voice, and iris recognition.

Klarna, the global payments and shopping provider, officially launches in Australia by introducing the Klarna Shopping app. The app which, starting today, will be available to download on iOS and Android, enables consumers to shop and pay with Klarna at any online retailer, bringing a unique consumer centric shopping experience to the Australian market.

Colt Technology Services has today announced it is furthering its Voice footprint bringing the offering to new countries including Australia, Bulgaria, Croatia and Hungary, taking its global Voice footprint to 29 countries.

As part of this global Voice expansion, Singapore, Slovakia, Canada and the US, will now also benefit from enhanced Voice capabilities.

Colt is committed to powering the way the world works through connectivity and a primary driver of this centres around removing the barriers faced by enterprises as they look to grow their global presence.