Online money transfer service WorldRemit today launches instant Mobile Money transfers to Burundi, the first remittance service to do so. Customers in 50 countries can now send money direct to EcoCash mobile wallets – just like an instant message.

WorldRemit’s mobile-to-mobile remittance service already enables people to send funds direct to Mobile Money wallets in countries across Africa, Asia and Oceania. Now the 350,000 Burundians who live abroad can make instant, low-cost money transfers direct to the mobiles of their friends and family in Burundi.

Earthport (AIM: EPO), the leading payment network for cross border transactions, announces an agreement to enable cross-border services for Japan Post Bank, Japan’s largest retail bank in terms of deposits. The first of its kind, this partnership will enable the bank to provide improved customer experience and reach for cross border consumer remittances.  

Taiwan's CTBC Bank has launched a pilot version of an ATM that uses both facial recognition and finger-vein scanning to verify identity.

Spectra Logic, the deep storage experts, announced today that it has been awarded its 100^th United States patent. This achievement marks a significant moment in the company’s more than 35 year history and reflects its continued commitment to technological innovation and development.

Mindtree, a leading digital transformation and technology services company, today announced it has been named a Top 10 Outsourcing Service Provider in USA and EMEA by Information Services Group (ISG), a leading technology insights, market intelligence and advisory services company.  

Not content with having an actual airline, Richard Branson has decked out the newest Virgin Money branch in the style of a plane cabin, complete with a cockpit simulator playroom for kids.

Redline Trading Solutions, the provider of market data and order execution systems for automated trading, has announced that Bloomberg's consolidated B-PIPE market data feed is now supported in its InRush accelerated ticker plant.

Redline worked with Bloomberg to connect its ticker plant technology to Bloomberg's B-PIPE as a registered participant in Bloomberg's Enterprise Solutions Partner Program, a group of more than 125 financial technology providers to the institutional market place.

Industry leading superannuation and investment software provider, Financial Synergy announces today its Acurity™ member online, reporting and compliance platform will enable the delivery of a larger scale and integrated customer relationship strategy for the merged Tasplan and Quadrant super funds.