Wolters Kluwer Compliance Solutions today named both Citizens National Bank of Meridian, Miss. and Boston-based Eastern Bank as winners of its 2018 Community Impact Award. The award honors financial institutions for the breadth of their positive impact to low- and moderate-income communities, and their innovative application of community development programs where they do business. 

Automated Know Your Customer (KYC) solutions provider, Cynopsis Solutions, today announces that it is launching its Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) operations from new offices in London.  

AxiomSL, the leading provider of regulatory reporting and risk management solutions, announces today that Openbank, the digital bank of Santander Group headquartered in Spain, has selected AxiomSL’s strategic platform to implement Central Bank, Capital, Liquidity, Trade and Transaction and AnaCredit reporting on a global level, for both European and South American countries.

As a Money 20/20 series regular, arriving at this year’s show in the ever-buzzing Las Vegas, I prepared myself for four days packed with futuristic visions and startling concepts for how we might be paying in fifty years’ time. Bizarrely refreshingly, however, was the return to the near future. Or, rather, the realization that those topics once considered shiny and futuristic were now making real progress on the path to consumers.  

ChinaPay, a Chinese financial services and payments provider, and PPRO Group, a cross-border e-payment specialist, announces today a partnership to bring over 15 European alternative payment methods (APMs) to ChinaPay’s Chinese merchants. The partnership will help to expand the merchants’ customer reach across Europe, with the possibility of adding additional APMs in the future.

Cyber Security Base with F-Secure, a free online course series developed by the University of Helsinki and F-Secure, is now open for its third year. The course series, designed to give students the practical skills and knowledge required for a career in cyber security, exemplifies some of the unique strategies companies and educators are using to address a global cyber security talent shortage. 

Duco, the global provider of enterprise data quality and reconciliation services, today announced that former HSBC and Merrill Lynch veteran Spencer Lake has joined the board of directors as a non-executive director. The company has also significantly bolstered its senior management team with the appointments of Danielle Price as Head of Finance and Operations, Peyton Kay as Vice President of Strategic Marketing, and Scott Glazer as Head of Sales, North America.  

Meniga, the global leader in digital banking solutions, today announced a €3 million investment from Íslandsbanki, bringing the total investment in the company from banks this year to €9.1m.

Íslandsbanki is the third bank to have invested in Meniga this year. The Icelandic bank follows Swedbank´s investment in April and the strategic partnership announced with UniCredit in June. Meniga will use the proceeds from the Íslandsbanki investment to enhance product research and development.

Fenergo, the leading provider of Client Lifecycle Management solutions (CLM) and services for financial institutions, has announced its expansion into Private Banking and Wealth Management, with the creation of a new division lead by Steve D’Souza.