Michael Pahlke has been appointed Chief Service Delivery Officer (CSDO) joining the Avaloq Group Executive Board on 1 November 2018, with a focus on expanding the firm’s global operational and technological capabilities to ensure highest levels of customer satisfaction. This appointment marks another significant step in the company’s evolution to becoming an integrated banking service provider on global scale.

Australian Securities and Frankfurt Stock Exchange cross listed iSignthis Ltd (ASX: ISX |FRA: TA8), the leading payment and identity technology company, is pleased to announce that it has signed an agreement with Prasos, Finland’s largest cryptocurrency service provider, for the provision of payment processing and identity verification services.

Prasos received more than €140m in deposits for purchase of cryptocurrency last financial year, and the company’s trading volume in the main broker services exceeded €220m during the same fiscal year. 

Deutsche Post has entered the era of end-to-end digitalization by extending its Postident digital identity management services with Qualified Electronic Signatures (QES), enabling their clients to conduct all their business entirely online, with enhanced security and privacy and in full compliance with the eIDAS regulation.

Global technical body EMVCo has welcomed fourteen new organisations to its Associates Programme to increase cross-industry collaboration in the development of EMV® Specifications. The newest Associates have joined since December 2017.

Joining as Technical Associates, Everi, Netcetera, Tencent and Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions can provide input to, and receive feedback on, detailed technical and operational issues connected to the EMV Specifications, and related testing and security evaluation processes.

Wolters Kluwer’s Finance, Risk & Reporting business has won a major award from Central Banking magazine. Its OneSumX for Regulatory Reporting solution has been named Best Technology Solution For Regulatory Compliance, in the publication’s annual FinTech and RegTech Awards which celebrate excellence and innovation.

Sageworks, a financial information company that offers lending, credit risk and portfolio risk solutions to banks and credit unions, today announced the launch of the Sageworks Loan Automation tool to help financial institutions increase the speed and ease of their lending processes.

QuantHouse, the leading independent global provider of end-to-end systematic trading solutions including innovative market data services, algo trading platform and infrastructure solutions, today welcomed Enyx to the qh API ecosystem. The addition of Enyx, the premier provider of low-latency, FPGA-based market data and order execution systems, provides trading firms with immediate access to a high performance, FPGA accelerated end-to-end market data service.

Vocalink, a Mastercard company, today announces that Andrew Buckley has joined as the new Executive Vice President for International Product, Marketing and Communications. Andrew joins Vocalink after ten years working in the cards industry.

In this pivotal role, Andrew will be accountable for defining and executing Vocalink’s global strategies and leading the product development, implementation and deployment of market-leading proprietary infrastructure and applications.

Paul Stoddart, CEO, Vocalink commented:

Trading 212 has become the first retail UK broker to offer commission-free trading for new and existing customers across shares and ETFs on its platform with no limit on the frequency and value of trades.  People can open an account with as little as £100.  

The same zero commission offer is being made available through Trading 212’s newly launched stocks and shares ISA, which offers investors access to thousands of ISA eligible stocks across the world’s leading exchanges as well as ETFs.