Diebold Nixdorf (NYSE: DBD), a world leader in driving connected commerce for the banking and retail industries, today announced that Zeeshan Naqvi has joined the company as vice president, treasurer. Naqvi will report directly to Jeffrey Rutherford, senior vice president, chief financial officer, and will be responsible for leading and overseeing the company's global treasury, risk management and customer financing functions. 

Xinja Bank, an independent Australian neobank built from the ground up for mobile, has appointed ‘Bank of the future’ alumnus – John Pountain – as Chief Technology Officer.

Mr Pountain, who worked at New York-based neobank, Moven, and before that was at BT Financial and Macquarie Group, is helping build Xinja Bank, with technology that will change banking for Australians who never want to walk into a bank branch or join a bank queue. 

BlueSnap, an online payments technology company, today announced a partnership with Chargebacks911, a technology platform provider for loss prevention and dispute management, to offer comprehensive dispute management tools to users of BlueSnap’s payment processing solutions.

Maven Capital Partners (“Maven”), one of the UK’s most active private equity houses, has invested £2 million in high-growth FinTech provider Delio Limited (“Delio”). The funding will support the business scale its international sales team across key global financial locations in Europe, Asia, the Middle East and North America.

More than 800 start-ups from across the globe have entered this latest edition of BBVA Open Talent, with 90 countries represented. From that list 56 have now been provisionally shortlisted as finalists, all of which come from BBVA’s core operating countries.

Sberbank has implemented a feature on remote banking services on letters of credit in Sberbank Business Online’s system. The service has no analogues on the Russian market. It is already used by more than 600 legal entities.

Clients can create applications on letters of credit online and independently send them to the bank to be processed. The whole document flow become electronic: clients can send letters on current deals, make changes, submit applications on early payments, as well as answer letters and requests from bank in one click.

 InGenius® Software Inc., a computer telephony integration (CTI) innovator, today announced integration support for Salesforce Financial Services Cloud. The new InGenius integration brings call data into Financial Services Cloud with a user interface in the Salesforce window that provides an unobstructed view of client data alongside intuitive call controls and advanced features for phone agents.

New Zealand has today ruled receiving income in Bitcoin as Legal, and CoinCorner one of the UK’s leading cryptocurrency exchanges, reveals that it began paying its employees in Bitcoin earlier this year.

Staff at the company were given the option to receive part or all of their salary in cryptocurrency. Each member of staff had the choice to receive the GBP equivalent of Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin or XRP (cryptocurrencies currently supported by CoinCorner) to include in their monthly pay packet.