The Florida Bitcoin & Blockchain Summit, the only fintech and blockchain event with a focus on the state of Florida, announces its live, in-person 2022 event May 26-27 at the Hilton Orlando Resort. The event will bring together fintech communities and technology evangelists from Florida and worldwide.

Well, if you’re wondering what PCI compliance is, let’s go over the term first before heading forward. The technical and operational standards that businesses follow to secure and protect credit card data provided by cardholders and sent through card processing activities are referred to as payment card industry compliance. 

The PCI DSS was established in 2004 by Visa, MasterCard, Discover, and American Express to certify that online vendors have the controls and procedures to prevent privacy violations.

Innovatrics, a global leader in biometric technology, and Blaize, the AI computing innovator revolutionizing edge computing, today announced a technology partnership to deliver ready-to-use facial recognition solutions designed for access control and public sec

Uplinq, the leading global credit assessment platform for small and medium sized business (SMB) lenders, strengthens its global reach with Ranqx, a digital SMB loan origination, decisioning and monitoring platform for lenders and banks.

Small and mid-sized enterprise (SME) finance platform Crowdz has secured $10 million in investment, led by Citi and Global Cleantech Capital, with participation from Bold Capital Partners, TFX Capital, and Augment Ventures.

Temenos AG today announced the appointment of Roman Bartik as President Americas to accelerate and scale expansion in the region.

Roman will be responsible for all day-to-day operations, strategy and profitability in North and South America, effective immediately. Roman joins the company’s management board and reports to Temenos’ President and Chief Revenue Officer, Erich Gerber.

Krepling, one of the fastest growing e-commerce platforms on the market, has announced the launch of the world’s first agnostic digital wallet for ecommerce, Krepling Pay. Unlike the platform’s existing competitors – Apple, Google, ShopPay – Krepling Pay is compatible with every device and every browser, providing users with a truly versatile payments solution. 

“The collapse in the price of so-called stablecoins like Luna and UST has echoes of the 2008 financial crash. Back then, CDOs brought the global economy to its knees because the belief was they were mortgage-backed securities. It was in fact a mortgage-backed pyramid with no real security behind it.

Azentio Software (“Azentio”), a Singapore-headquartered technology firm owned by funds advised by Apax Partners, announced today that BigPay, a Ghana-based global digital payment solutions company, has gone live with 

Mindtree, a global technology services and digital transformation company, and Finastra, a leading financial technology provider, today announced a partnership to bring Finastra’s Fusion Payments To Go payments technology to banks in the Nordics, the UK and Ireland, as a managed service.