Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company, announced that Standard Bank Group has selected AWS as its preferred cloud provider with the intention of migrating its production workloads, including its customer facing platforms and strategic core banking applications to the cloud.

Currencycloud has been recognized as one of the UK’s most successful digital companies as it joins Tech Nation’s Future Fifty 2019 cohort.

Future Fifty is a prestigious programme that enables the UK’s most successful late-stage tech companies to come together, build a powerful and supportive network, and problem-solve with peers. Previous alumni of Future Fifty have included household names such as Deliveroo, HailO and SkyScanner, as well as big hitters in the fintech and payments industry, such as Transferwise, Azimo and Paddle.

Pelican (pelican.ai), a global provider of AI-powered payments and financial crime compliance solutions for banks and corporates, today announced the further extension of its API Interoperability solution, with expanded support for the six popular Open Banking API standards, now including the UK’s OBWG, France's STET and the Berlin Group, together with the Czech ČSOB, and the Polish and Slovakian APIs.

To increase velocity for deploying predictive models, FICO and Equifax are introducing the Data Decisions Cloud.

Open banking Third Party Provider (TPP) Identity & Regulatory checking specialist, Konsentus, and turnkey open banking platform provider, Token.io, today announce a strategic partnership to provide European financial institutions (FIs) with a fast and powerful combined solution for PSD2 compliance.

Identification platform Verimi and digital identity solutions provider Signicat have today announced a partnership which delivers a better multi-factor identification and authentication solution across Europe. The agreement, signed today, includes the integration  of Verimi’s identification platform into Signicat’s Digital Identity Hub. 

As the threat landscape continues to evolve, so does the need for organizations’ approaches to defending against the business impact of cyber attacks. In light of this trend, cyber security provider F-Secure is calling for greater emphasis on both the preparedness for a breach as well as fast and effective containment that covers the correct balance of people, process and technology.

Cleanshelf, a leading SaaS spend optimization solution, announced a partnership with 

OneMarketData, LLC, a leader in tick data management and analytics, today announced that Invast Global, a leading multi-asset prime brokerage firm in APAC, has selected OneTick Surveillance, to be hosted and fully managed by OneMarketData. With increased regulatory requirements and pressures placed on financial services firms, Invast Global can now ensure that all trades carried out globally are protected and monitored appropriately as part of an auditable workflow.

NuMSP, a leading national managed service provider (MSP) offering IT and cybersecurity solutions, announced its acquisition of the Boise, Idaho assets from Corporate Technologies.