Paragon Application Systems (Paragon), the leading independent testing services provider for the financial services industry, today introduced VirtualATM®, a powerful simulator designed to replace physical ATM hardware in the test environment. With VirtualATM, customers can conduct automated testing of the entire software stack from anywhere in the world, saving time, money and manpower.

Green Dot Corporation, a pro-consumer financial technology innovator with a mission to reinvent personal banking for the masses, today announced that it has named Brooke Norton Lais to the position of Chief Marketing Officer.

Chase announced today that it has signed a multi-year agreement with Shell to accept Chase Pay at its stations across the U.S.

Chase Pay is a payment service that lets Chase credit and debit customers pay at the pump, in stores, online and within an app. Chase Pay will help Shell transform its customer payment and loyalty experience by enabling a mobile payment solution and driving Fuel Rewards®program participation.

Once again, the UEFA European Championship is just a round the corner, and Europe will spend four weeks going football crazy as each team  takes  its turn on the international pitch. A UEFA European Championship, of course, means an entire month of nothing  but football - with fixed schedules featuring up to three games a day. All this naturally makes every  football  fan's heart  beat faster, and we at PPRO can hardly wait until the first kickoff - at 9pm on the 10th of June in Paris's St. Denis stadium.

The UK’s completely free credit scoring service, ClearScore, today launches ‘Timeline’, a unique new tool giving people a ‘big picture’ view of their money.

Timeline charts the relationship between different aspects of a person’s finances, letting people see how and why their credit score has changed over time. 

The International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. (ISDA) has today appointed two senior executives from a central counterparty (CCP) and a futures commission merchant (FCM) to its Board of Directors.

The Wirecard Group and MyOrder B.V. (a Rabobank Company) cooperate to create new FinTech solutions. Wirecard and MyOrder now enabled GRPPY (Grouppay, www.grppy.com) to create a shared wallet. GRPPY is Rabobank latest startup and is using the platform of MyOrder, for which Wirecard already provides the complete wallet infrastructure as a technical service provider.

BNP Paribas is to run a second International Hackathon from 17 to 19 June. More countries will be involved this year – eight, up from five for the 2015 event. The theme of the 2016 Hackathon is: ‘Streamlining the Customer Journey through co-creation with start-ups.’