Global Digital Finance (GDF), the industry body advocating and accelerating the adoption of digital assets, today announces its partnership with Washington-based advisory and advocacy firm FS Vector, along with four new senior appointments to supercharge its global policy and regulatory affairs capability.

Featurespace^™, the world leader in financial crime risk management for fraud and Anti-Money Laundering, has announced that Enfuce - Finland's biggest fintech start-up with more than 8 million end-users in their platform – has selected the ARIC Risk Hub to protect its clients from existing fraud and new attacks.

Checkout.com, a leading global payment solutions provider, today announces the acquisition of technology startup ProcessOut. This represents the first acquisition for the London-based financial technology firm and follows their 2019 announcement of a record-breaking $230 million Series A funding round. This valued the company at nearly $2 billion, in Europe’s largest fintech Series A round ever.

Since 1 July 2007, the Belgian electricity market has been liberalized. While in the first years, only few consumers switched electricity provider, this has reached a new high this year. Incumbent providers are still trying to convince customers with product-differentiation slogans that they offer the best reliability or the greenest electricity. The truth is that electricity is a commodity product, with little to no differentiation in the offered product between providers.

OpenDoor Securities , the continuous order book for less liquid US Treasuries, has named Carson Wong as Chief Technology Officer. Wong joins OpenDoor from Fidelity Capital Markets Technology, where he was most recently Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer. As OpenDoor’s CTO, he will work closely with Co-founder, CEO and President Susan Estes to drive the product vision and roadmap for the Company.

Last Wednesday, SIX and Omniex signed a partnership agreement. The partnership will provide a gateway to digital exchanges (including crypto currency exchanges) and OTC market makers worldwide for SIX and its clients. This will create the basis for new business opportunities along the value chain of existing and future asset classes. The collaboration will allow clients of SIX to get a standardized and secure access to trade crypto currencies. As part of the partnership, SIX will become a shareholder in Omniex. The parties have agreed not to disclose the amount of the investment.

Mastercard (NYSE: MA) today announced that Ajay Banga, President and Chief Executive Officer, will transition to the role of Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors of Mastercard Incorporated on January 1, 2021. Mastercard’s Board unanimously elected Michael Miebach, Chief Product Officer, to become Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board of Directors on January 1, 2021 and, as part of the transition, he will become President of the company, effective March 1, 2020.

The Board of Directors of Expert System announced today that Walt Mayo has been appointed Group Chief Executive Officer. Walt joins Expert System with more than 20 years of sales, marketing and channel development leadership working with high-growth technology and scale-up businesses across the globe. He will be instrumental in expanding Expert System’s expansion in the US as well as responsible for driving a new phase of growth globally.