African businesses can now benefit from the very latest digital compliance and risk management solution, thanks to a new offering from BDO Morocco and new generation GRC solution provider OXIAL.

Volante Technologies Inc., a global provider of software for accelerated end-to-end payments processing, today announced that FIMBank Malta has signed as the first customer for Volante’s newly launched cloud-based VolPay-as-a-Service offering. Volante will provide FIMBank with a managed service for processing SEPA payments in the cloud, powered by Volante’s VolPay Suite of payments products running on Microsoft Azure.

SWIFT today releases a new paper on the evolution of the European payments landscape. While change is underway in wholesale and retail payments across the world, in Europe, the Eurosystem has set a clear path for financial market infrastructure renewal. This, along with regulations such as the Second Payment Services Directive (PSD2), is driving a period of radical payments transformation across Europe.

Form3, the cloud technology provider of Payments-as-a-Service for banks and regulated fintechs, today announced that fintech focused LHV Bank has selected Form3 to provide a fully managed service connecting the bank directly to the UK Faster Payments infrastructure. LHV will join the scheme as a Directly Connected Participant (Member) in 2019.

A recent survey of more than 360 enterprises revealed that 86% are dealing with the complexity of multiple types of data and/or data-related processes subject to privacy and security compliance requirements. Just 61% say that their organisations are compliant.^[1]

Profile Software, an international financial solutions provider, announced today that it has been shortlisted at the WealthBriefing GCC Region Awards 2018 under the categories “Front Office Solution”, “Portfolio Management”, “Onboarding” and “Innovative Fintech Solution”. These distinctions highlight Profile’s commitment to delivering truly innovative and client-centric Wealth Management platforms that help firms accelerate their operations, comply with regulations and deliver outstanding personalised customer experience.

Ingenico, the global leader in seamless payment, has today announced a partnership with European payments company, Trustly, that will enable customers in Europe to make secure online transactions directly from their bank account.

Tieto is reinforcing its commitment to advancing ethical and responsible artificial intelligence (AI). Today, Tieto announced that it is introducing AI ethics guidelines and certification for its employees, as well as opening new positions for AI ethics and transparency engineers and AI trainers. These steps are part of a sustained drive to promote ethical AI product and service development across the company.