TokenMarket, the blockchain-based global investment platform, today announces its partnership with Loopring, the protocol for decentralised token exchanges. The collaboration will accelerate security and transparency in the US$222 billion digital asset trading market.

Global Payments (NYSE:GPN), a leading worldwide provider of payment technology and software solutions, and TSYS (NYSE:TSS), a leading global payments provider offering innovative solutions across the issuing, merchant and consumer segments, announced today that they have entered into a definitive agreement to combine in an all-stock merger of equals.

Consumers are managing their financial services in more digital and diverse ways than ever before. But as card-not-present (CNP) transactions across e-commerce, m-commerce and remote commerce rise across the globe so does fraud.

MYPINPAD, the global leader in secure personal authentication solutions, is strengthening its presence in the Asia-Pacific secure payment space by providing its regional partner Clik, a fast-growing South East Asian payments aggregator, with its innovative Authenticator solution. 

It has been around one and a half years since the real open banking journey started, with the UK taking the lead. Open banking is boldness and flexibility. For ages, the financial data of customers were close to the chest for banks and customers did not have much choice. Times have changed drastically recently. Customers are starting to get more freedom of managing their financial contacts by getting rid of tight coupling with their financial institutions.

Leading technology firm Altron Bytes Managed Solutions (Altron Bytes MS) and payments specialist Renovite Technologies have announced a new strategic partnership which will revolutionise the ATM channel. The agreement will see the two businesses help financial institutions bring innovative new services to market, echoing the level of modernisation seen elsewhere across global financial services.

Opsview, the company that unifies cloud and infrastructure monitoring, has today released a new report revealing that many companies have unfit IT strategies in place to adequately support their digital transformation projects – even though many agree it’s a top priority. For instance, 25% of respondents said that they struggle to effectively monitor the health of their organisation’s IT systems; a further 21% said that legacy prevents growth and scalability, and 7% noted that legacy, people and process stopped them operating in a dynamic manner.

Moscow Exchange has facilitated connectivity options for professional market participants and their clients from Asia and the Middle East. In collaboration with Avelacom, it has deployed new Points of Presence (PoPs) in the most sophisticated and largest data centers in Hong Kong, Singapore, Shanghai, Dubai and Mumbai. Market participants have received high speed access to MOEX’s markets without the need to build extra infrastructure and pay for low latency network connection to Moscow.

MOEX’s PoPs provide the following features:

Following recent expansion in Singapore, London based RegTech firm ClauseMatch closed its first venture debt funding round with Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), the bank of the world’s most innovative businesses and their investors.

The $2.5 million loan package agreed between ClauseMatch and Silicon Valley Bank will be allocated to support the company's continued growth in Europe and Asia. Recently the company started operations in South East Asia, out of Singapore, and is already serving clients with a presence in the region.