Imran Gulamhuseinwala has been assigned as the new Implementation Trustee for the CMA’s Open Banking remedies. Mr Gulamhuseinwala, who was awarded an OBE in the New Year’s Honours list for his contribution to the financial services sector, is a London-based Partner for EY and leads its Global FinTech practice. He will be seconded from EY to Open Banking.

Algomi, the network company providing information-matching solutions for the optimization of fixed income liquidity, today announced a partnership with OpenFin, the world’s first common operating layer for financial desktop applications.

Algomi will use OpenFin’s operating layer to deploy new versions of the firm’s Synchronicity Software as a Service (SaaS) solution for the sell-side and its Honeycomb solution for the buy-side.

Backbase, the leading omni-channel digital banking platform, announces its partnership with Bank ABC to develop their next generation digital banking platform for retail and wholesale banking across the Bank’s network.

Today TSYS announced that it has bound a PRIME software license and services agreement with Enfuce Financial Services. The Finnish-based payments services provider has strategic plans to grow its business across Scandinavia. Enfuce will operate PRIME in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud environment to bring efficiencies to its operating model and allow it to compete in the region through its technology and superior value. This will be the first live operation of PRIME in a cloud environment, following successful end-to-end testing in December 2016. 

Today Amazon has reported about the launch of Amazon Pay in France, Italy and Spain, enabling customers to pay for goods and services on participating third party merchant websites with their Amazon account information.

Innovate Finance, the membership association for UK's global FinTech sector, has revealed the winner of Pitch360, its first ever FinTech startup competition. 

Today Masergy Communications Inc., revealed that UK-based Eurostar has selected the company's Hybrid N

Can HMRC successfully Make Tax Digital while still struggling to push out the self assessment protocol?

AFEX, world's largest non-bank provider of global payment and risk management solutions, has introduced the PayFEX Prepaid Mastercard.

FlexTrade Systems, the world leading provider of multi-asset execution and order management systems, is deligheted to announce “FlexAR” – an augmented reality trading application offering an extraordinary, new way of visualising and presenting trading via the company’s award-winning FlexTRADER EMS.