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).

Temenos (SIX: TEMN), the banking software company, today announced that Assaray Trade and Investment Bank (ATIB) has selected Temenos Infinity and Temenos Transact to power its digital transformation. Temenos’ cloud-native, cloud-agnostic banking platform will enable the bank to quickly launch new digital products for retail and corporate banking and improve the customer experience.

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.