FIME today announces its latest partnership with Alhamrani Universal Co Ltd. in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). Issuing and acquiring banks in KSA can now access FIME’s full range of test tools, consultancy, training and testing services directly from Alhamrani Universal. Banks will benefit from the close support network delivered by a regional partner in local languages and currency.

INSIDE Secure  a leader in software security solutions for mobile and connected devices, today announced that financial institutions can now select INSIDE Secure’s MatrixHCE, a VisaReady, approved mobile banking and payment solution, to easily and confidently rol

OpenFin, the financial industry's leading provider of HTML5 runtime technology, expanded its global management team with two senior appointments in London. Cecilia Harvey joins OpenFin as Director of Account Management. Leigha Ruiz assumes the role of COO Europe. The new appointments will enable OpenFin to scale as it continues its rapid growth with deployments at 44 sell-side firms and over 250 buy-side firms.

Sapiens International Corporation, a leading global provider of software solutions for the insurance industry, with a growing presence in the financial services sector, announced that Anadolu Insurance Company (Anadolu), a private insurer operating in Turkey, has expanded its strategic relationship with Sapiens.

Wirecard reports a partnership with the London based startup Curve to introduce a new payment solution. Curve allows people to connect up an unlimited number of bank cards into one physical payment card, accepted everywhere. It is supported by a mobile app that gives people a clearer picture of their payments putting them back in control. The card and smartphone app solution is supported by Wirecard's technology, ensuring global usage of the Curve card and bank-level security protection.

I was at a really interesting conference on APIs and PSD2. The event was very light on PSD2 but it did allow me to test out my thinking about the future of banking aggregation. In this blog I’m going to refrain from littering it with PSD terms and just put across my thoughts.

BITA risk is pleased to announce that it has won its 3rd consecutive Wealth Briefing European Award. At a gala awards dinner held last night at The Guildhall London BITA won best Risk Profiling Solution for 2016. This follows on from it winning the same category in 2015 and Risk Management Solution in 2014.

Path Solutions, the largest provider of Sharia-compliant core banking systems, is delighted to announce a double award win, where it scooped the highly prestigious ‘Best Technology Provider’ and Best Banking Solution’ for the company’s Islamic core banking system iMAL, at The Asset Triple A Islamic Finance Awards 2016.

HID Global®, a worldwide leader in  secure identity solutions, has revealed that 74 per cent of employees in European businesses are not concerned about security issues when using their company mobile phone  -  this figure stands at 77 per cent for employees in the UK, and 82 per cent in Germany. This is according to an independent research project conducted by the company. This finding is a key indicator of the level of confidence that employees have in the mobile security that their companies provide.

BPC Banking Technologies, a world leading provider of payment solutions, announces the launch of the national payment system of Ethiopia, EthSwitch S.C. based on SmartVista. As of today for the first time, all 17 of the countries retail banks are connected together via the unified payment system.

EthSwitch was formed by all the banks in Ethiopia, and with the backing of the Ethiopian Bankers’ Association and the country’s central bank known as the National Bank of Ethiopia. Following the implementation of the full SmartVista suite all the banks’ payments are now centralized.