In the world of payments, introducing new services is a tiresome and complex process. Having a fast, agile response to market and customer demands is near-impossible. While the fintech revolution has made every payments firm want—and need—to innovate, current infrastructure prevents this.

 SumUp (sumup.co.uk), today announces the appointment of Alexander von Schirmeister, a former executive at eBay, as its Executive Vice President, Europe.

SIA has created the digital platform that enables passengers in Rome to pay for their tickets in Atac’s subway and railway network directly at the turnstiles using contactless credit and debit cards (MasterCard, Visa and American Express), also virtualized on smartphones and wearable devices, in a simple, fast and secure manner.

Volante Technologies Inc., a global provider of technology and software as a service to accelerate digital transformation and payments modernization, today announced it has launched financial message validation on the cloud, available as an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) on the AWS Marketplace. 

TIBCO Software Inc., a global leader in integration, API management and analytics, today announced its TIBCO NOW™ conference, taking place September 25-26, 2019 in London, is sold out. Following sold-out events in both Singapore and Chicago, the global tour brings together customers, partners, and TIBCO thought leaders to share best practices on how to innovate everywhere and digitally transform business.

Acronis, a global leader in cyber protection, today announced a $147 million investment round led by Goldman Sachs. The investment round sets the valuation of the company to over one billion dollars and enables Acronis to expand its engineering team in Singapore, Bulgaria and Arizona, build additional data centers, and grow through acquisitions.

Payrexx - a fast-growing payment provider in the DACH region - will integrate with the EU payment fintech and merchant acquirer, Clearhaus, for processing Visa, Mastercard, Google Pay and Apple Pay payments online. The partnership will bring two quickly expanding fintech players together to offer superior payment solutions to online stores across Europe.