Abu Dhabi Global Market (“ADGM”), the award-winning international financial centre, has taken its global FinTech talent-discovery road show (“FinTechAD Tour”) to Riyadh.

Riyadh is the final stop on the MENA region leg of the FinTechAD Tour, co-organised by ADGM and Unbound - the global innovation ecosystem builder. In total, the FinTechAD Tour is visiting 17 cities across Asia, Europe, the Middle East and North Africa.

Israeli startup GK8

In the world of payments, introducing new services is a tiresome and complex process. Having a fast, agile response to market and customer demands is near-impossible. While the fintech revolution has made every payments firm want—and need—to innovate, current infrastructure prevents this.

 SumUp (sumup.co.uk), today announces the appointment of Alexander von Schirmeister, a former executive at eBay, as its Executive Vice President, Europe.

SIA has created the digital platform that enables passengers in Rome to pay for their tickets in Atac’s subway and railway network directly at the turnstiles using contactless credit and debit cards (MasterCard, Visa and American Express), also virtualized on smartphones and wearable devices, in a simple, fast and secure manner.

Volante Technologies Inc., a global provider of technology and software as a service to accelerate digital transformation and payments modernization, today announced it has launched financial message validation on the cloud, available as an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) on the AWS Marketplace.