In combination, the EU’s Second Payment Services Directive (PSD2) – and the European Banking Authority’s (EBA’s) related Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) on Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) and Secure Open Standards of Communication (CSC) –profoundly impact banks' IT systems and business models.

They open up banks’ systems to third-party payments services providers (TPPs) for account information, payment initiation and confirmation of funds via access interfaces such as application programming interfaces (APIs). The RTS also describes requirements regarding SCA.

Pipedrive Inc., the leading sales pipeline software and CRM of choice for over 70,000 companies, today launched a new Pipedrive for Financial Services solution equipped to greatly optimize financial sales activities. 

At PayPal, we’re building solutions for global commerce to help consumers and businesses seamlessly connect across all contexts. 

Trace Software International, the global leader in electrical engineering since 1987, announces the official launch of the elec calc™ BIM software, the first tool in the world that seamlessly integrates electrical calculation into the BIM process.

When we talk about Building Information Modeling (BIM) we are not talking about a trend, but about a real digital revolution in the building sector, ready to break up obsolete schemes and processes.

OneSpan (NASDAQ: OSPN), a global leader in digital identity security, transaction security and business productivity, today announced a partnership with Nok Nok Labs, the leader in next-generation authentication, that enables any mobile or online application to comply universally with FIDO standards including FIDO UAF (Universal Authentication Framework) and FIDO2. Nok Nok Labs selected OneSpan as a partner because of the company’s strength in fraud mitigation technology.

Bankdata, an IT service provider to the Danish banking industry, has recently gone live with another stage of its transformation program. Bankdata recently migrated interest rate and cross-currency swaps from its legacy systems to Murex’s MX.3 platform, the leading solution for trading, risk management and processing for the capital markets.

Simplification of system landscape with Murex’s platform, MX.3

Smart technology client verification solution provider Know Your Customer (KYC) has received investment of €250,000 from Enterprise Ireland.  The investment will be directed towards growth in key Asian markets, particularly mainland China, Hong Kong and Singapore.