1.What value does biometric payment card technology bring to banks and consumers?

B2B payments specialist, Adflex, today announced the release of Click to Pay to its customers, in partnership with Visa. Based on EMVCo industry standards, the new technology provides an easy, smart and highly secure, password-free checkout. Adflex’s merchant customers can now use the Click to Pay solution to simplify their own customers’ payment experience.

Global payment service provider, Computop, is this month celebrating a quarter of a century since it was first established.
In 1997 when online commerce was still in its infancy, secure payment was a matter of luck, which prompted Computop founders Frank Arnoldt and Ralf Gladis to devise a secure and simple method of payment for the growing e-commerce sector. 25 years later, the company is now at the forefront of the industry and has a market share of over 30% in its native Germany.
 

Yugabyte, the leader in open source distributed SQL databases, has announced a technology partnership with global banking software market leader Temenos.

Temenos, whose systems serve 1.2 billion people – one-third of the world’s banked population, has chosen YugabyteDB as a strategic database to power the core banking capabilities of Temenos open platform for composable banking.

Atom has appointed Andy Sturrock as the bank’s new Chief Technologist.

Andy joins Atom from BP plc, where he most recently ran the company’s Digital Consumer Channels and Offers teams, including the BPMe app and loyalty schemes. During his time at BP, Andy introduced a number of new methodologies and technologies including Agile, DevOps and the cloud, first in the trading business, before rolling them out across the entire company.

Kiln, a leading enterprise-grade staking platform for institutions, crypto-native and fintech companies, today announced the completion of a $5 million funding round. The funding round included Third Kind Managing Partner and Andreessen Horowitz board partner Shana Fisher, SV Angel, Blue Yard, Alven and Kima Ventures. 

DivideBuy, the leading UK point-of-sale (POS) finance pioneer, has today announced the appointment of Teresa Byrne to Chief Commercial Officer to drive its ongoing growth strategy of enhancing platform automation and product innovation.

DIGISEQ, the wearable payments tech pioneer, has today announced its partnership with German mobile payment and banking app, VIMpay, to provide prepaid or tokenised payment accounts to customers’ wearable items.

JARVIS Invest, India’s first Artificial Intelligence (AI) based investment advisory startup, has crossed an important milestone in April 2022. Founded in December 2016, JARVIS Invest has since grown to onboard 75000+ clients across 800 partners as of April 2022. The registered client base has grown multifold from about 500 in 2020 to over 75000+ now. The assets under advisory (AUA) has crossed INR 100 crore as of April 2022 from INR 13.7 lakh in 2019-20, a rise of 730x in two years.