Opus, the leading provider of global compliance and risk management solutions, today announced the integration of cyber-risk security ratings from BitSight, the Standard in Security Ratings, with its award-winning Hiperos 3PM Information Security Platform. The combination equips enterprises to thoroughly and objectively identify, assess and monitor the information security risk of all third parties (such as contractors, vendors and suppliers) while efficiently scaling their vendor risk management programs.

Jussi Koskinen, currently VP, Head of Global Corporate Legal at Nokia, will join Nordea as Chief Legal Officer and will be part of Group Executive Management. He will start on 1 September 2018. This appointment follows the decision by the current Chief Legal Officer, Lena Eriksson, to retire and leave Nordea early 2019.

Many small-and-medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have enough trouble maintaining a healthy level of cash-flow as it is, so the last thing they need is for their bank to suffer an IT failure that puts their accounts out of action.

Payments disruptor Paysend has tripled its customer base over the last 6 months, following its expansion into growing global markets.

The company now has over 150,000 customers across Europe, and operates in more than 60 countries.

Most recently a series of partnerships expanded the business to customers in the Middle East and Africa.

The business and technology veteran will advise the company on its growth strategy

Mambu, the leading SaaS engine powering innovative lending and deposits, today announced that respected business leader and academic, Henning Kagermann joined its board of directors as of 1 June, 2018.

Mambu will draw on Kagermann’s decades of executive and operational expertise to help guide the company as it increasingly attracts interest and business from top tier banks and large financial institutions. 

Significant Investment and the Launch of a New AI Accelerator in the UK Reinforces Agorai’s Commitment to Help Drive Education and Access to AI tools for All 

Financial institutions hoping to keep pace with rapid customer and markets changes have to first change how they think about technology if they want to survive in a digital world. Instead of seeing it as something that has to be done at great length and expense, it should be seen as a strategic advantage - if the right approach is taken. 

Investors of premium and private banks can manage their portfolios on the go while staying in control

Personalized UX and a 360º overview of financial portfolio, to understand its composition and how it changed over the past

Advanced management of portfolios with Easy invest feature

Bridge between artificial intelligence and personal advise. The client is able to talk to a self-learning chatbot or send a request to a financial advisor to take over the conversation.

I find myself sitting in Schiphol Airport, trying to switch off. But I can’t. As with everyone that went to Money 20/20 Europe, I’m exhausted. But I leave the show excited by the progress the payments community has made in the last year, my head still buzzing with the evolution in the story we’ve seen on topics such as identity, privacy and security and where we’re headed next. 

Regulation, Regulation, Regulation

ZenMate (https://www.zenmate.com), the leading VPN service provider owned by the internet security and privacy company ZenGuard GmbH, launched an official crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube (https://www.