Mastercard, the partner of choice for fintechs, is announcing its partnership of CleverCards and EML to cement their position as the leading facilitator of PayTech innovation in Europe.

CleverCards is a fast moving payments technology start-up, which has re-invented money by allowing any business to send digital Mastercard’s directly to the mobile wallet of a customer or employee by email, SMS, WhatsApp or any messaging application.

Finantix, the leading global provider of trusted technology to the wealth management, insurance and banking industries, is pleased to announce two new senior hires in Asia Pacific and Europe with Michael Gantenbein joining as Account Delivery Director in Singapore and Gareth Williams as Business Development Director in the UK.

Digital banking software provider, Backbase, has today announced the launch of its next generation Backbase-as-a-Service. This managed cloud platform service covers Backbase’s entire portfolio of banking products, helping banks to innovate with speed whilst reducing their costly operational hurdles.

Worldline, the European market leader in payment and transactional services, is proud to announce that CREDEM, one of Italy's leading private banks, has successfully started processing Target2 payments with Worldline’s Payment and Liquidity Hub software CRISTAL.

Acronis, a global leader in cyber protection, today announced a technology partnership with an American professional baseball team, the San Diego Padres. Under the multi-year agreement, Acronis will provide innovative cyber protection solutions designed to safeguard data and optimize data workflows to improve the team’s performance both on and off the field.

Mastercard today announced the appointment of Raj Seshadri as president for the company’s data and services organization, reporting directly to Ajay Banga, president and chief executive officer. She succeeds Kevin Stanton, who has taken on a new role as chief transformation officer.

Seshadri will draw upon her insights and successful track record as president of U.S. issuers over the past four years. During this time, she grew the company’s regional credit, debit, commercial and prepaid card programs and service offerings with banks and credit unions across the U.S. market.

Mosaic Smart Data (Mosaic), the real-time capital markets data analytics company, has appointed Mike Thorpe as its new Head of Sales.

Over the past year, Mosaic Smart Data has updated its MSX® platform to provide analytics for trading venues and buy-side firms as well as expanding the number of asset classes on the platform. Now, Thorpe joins a team of more than 40 at Mosaic to grow the company’s client base among the world’s largest institutions and support existing clients in on-boarding additional features and asset classes of the MSX platform.

CloudMargin, creator of the world’s first and only collateral and margin management solution native to the cloud, today announced the promotion of Armando Hernandez to the newly established role of Executive Director, Head of North America for the London-based global firm.

Modern day technology is making it easier to conduct business abroad, however, there will always be the need for face-to-face meetings. In the United Kingdom alone, around £30 billion is spent on business travel annually with more than £450 spent on average for each trip.

With costs as high as this, companies must find more efficient ways of paying for business travel. This becomes more important when they factor in administration costs, loss of efficiency and charges for using cash and some debit, credit and fuel cards abroad.

ZA Bank Limited (“ZA Bank”) announced today the launch of its pilot trial (“ZA Bank Pilot”) to offer banking services to selected retail banking users in Hong Kong before full business launch to the general public. The pilot trial is conducted under the Fintech Supervisory Sandbox (“FSS”) of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (“HKMA”).

ZA Bank is a wholly-owned subsidiary of ZhongAn Technologies International Group Limited (“ZA”) and is one of the first batch of virtual banks to receive a banking license granted by the HKMA on 27 March 2019.