Tinkoff announces it has signed a title partnership agreement with the Russian Football Premier League (RFPL). 

The agreement covers the 2019/2020, 2020/21 and 2021/22 football seasons. Starting from February 2020, the most popular sporting event in Russia will be called the Tinkoff Russian Football Premier League.

Under the signed agreement, Tinkoff will be the title sponsor of the League and the Tinkoff brand will be integrated into various sponsorship formats, including in television broadcasts, digital platforms and at stadiums where RFPL games are held.

With the rise of Database DevOps deployments in 2020, companies of all sizes are now looking for solutions to ensure fewer code defects and lower lead times for change deployment. This is according to the fourth annual State of Database DevOps Report from Redgate Software.

Azimo, Europe’s leading digital money transfer service, announced today that it has partnered with Ripple, the enterprise blockchain solution for global payments. 

Azimo has launched its first service using Ripple’s On-Demand Liquidity solution (ODL) to send faster and cheaper cross-border payments to the Philippines, with plans to expand to more markets in 2020. The Philippines is one of the top remittance destinations globally, receiving $34 billion in 2018. 

Klarna, a leading global payments and shopping provider, has today announced its latest figures showing sustained growth both in the UK and globally. The year on year global volumes and revenue increased by 32% and 31% respectively while the volume processed now amounts to over USD 35 billion. 

Envestnet | Yodlee, a financial data and analytics platform powering dynamic, cloud-based innovation for digital financial services has acquired FinBit.io, an emerging financial data aggregation and analytics platform provider for the India and Asia market, powering over 60 B2B FinTech companies.

The Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ), New Zealand's central bank, and SIA – European hi-tech company leader in the fields of payment services and infrastructures – have launched the new real-time financial market infrastructures, replacing the two separate platforms Exchange Settlement Account System (ESAS) and Central Securities Depository system (NZClear).

Brilliance Financial Technology, a global leader in providing end-to-end digital pricing and intelligence, today announced its strategic partnership with Rabobank, the world’s largest Food & Agri financial institution based in the Netherlands. Rabobank likes to work with partners that add value for its customers.

Finablr network brand BayanPay, a Saudi Arabia-based digital payment solutions provider, has been awarded a payment services provider licence by the Saudi Arabian Monetary Authority (SAMA).