Leading payments issuer processor, Global Processing Services (GPS), today announces the appointment of Damien Gough as Head of Asia Pacific.

The year of 2020 began with a series of uncertainties but soon businesses started to slowly stabilize, and some even grew back to pre-covid levels. Every business across every sector took a severe hit, and the FinTech sector as well did not escape the pandemic. The first 30 days of the global crisis were the toughest, and Razorpay too witnessed a decline of 30% in digital payments.

Trulioo, the leading global identity verification company, announces that Matt Schatz will join the company as Chief Revenue Officer. In his new role, Mr. Schatz will report to the CEO and lead Trulioo’s revenue-generating departments to help drive the company’s next phase of hyper-growth. 

The global crypto exchange leader, Huobi, has announced support for Russian ruble (RUB) allowing users to deposit and withdraw the new fiat currency on their platform. The new feature is introduced in collaboration with also enables users to purchase popular cryptocurrencies like BTC, ETH, LTC, USDT, EOS, BCH, ETC, BSV, DASH, HT and HPT with ruble, and works in collaboration with AdvCash - a leading fiat and crypto payment solutions provider.

Accounts payable automation provider, Medius, announces a new partnership with Pagero, a cloud-based business platform. Using a joint customer base to receive and process e-invoices in a variety of formats across the globe, the partnership will help businesses increase financial efficiency while supporting local regulatory compliance.

Sapphire Systems, a leading enterprise software applications and digital operating platform provider, today announced that it has extended its North American market footprint through the acquisition of Pioneer B1, an Arizona headquartered SAP Business One partner.

FSS (Financial Software and Systems), a leading global payment processor and provider of integrated payment products, announced partnering with India Post Payments Bank (IPPB) to promote financial inclusion among underserved and unbanked segments. As part of the collaboration, IPPB will use FSS’ Aadhaar Enabled Payment System (AePS) to deliver interoperable and affordable doorstep banking services to customers across India.

The Ashton Whiteley Scam illustrates how financial crime really works. Not a lot of personal cases were shared with the public before in order to make financial crime tangible. Here is an outline of events of a victim of the Ashton Whiteley Scam a couple of years ago.

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If we thought 2019 ‘was quite a year’ and that 2020 would bring some challenges, then how on earth do we begin to verbalise the last 9 months? Despite epidemiologists warning of a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic, the most advanced nations in the world were ill-prepared for the scale of the fall-out. The effects of which are still being felt, and will continue to do so for many months, despite vaccines coming on stream. Confidently predicting what is going to happen in 2021 is very difficult, however, there are possibilities that we can forecast given the reality of the past few months.