Retailers are looking for ways to enhance the shopping experience and attract more of the approximately 3 million Chinese tourists who visit the U.S. each year. 

Ingenico Group, the global leader in seamless payment, is pleased to welcome Jennifer Miles as Executive Vice President North America. Jennifer reports to Philippe Lazare, Chairman and CEO, and is a member of the company’s Executive Committee.

Traydstream UK has announced the creation of its Indian entity, Traydstream Pvt Limited as its first global servicing hub for its Trade, Technology and Client Service operations. The entity will house leading professionals from across the twin disciplines of Trade and Technology to design and deliver cutting-edge solutions for the trade and banking industry.

Commenting on the creation of Traydstream India, Sameer Sehgal, CEO of Traydstream, has stated:

Wells Fargo & Company announced today that Wells Fargo is partnering with Fitbit, the leading global wearables brand, to launch Fitbit Pay™ to its customers, giving them the ability to conveniently and securely make purchases at merchants whose payment terminals are set up to accept near-field communication (NFC) payments. 

25^th May 2018. With less than five months before GDPR compliance is law, it’s vital accountants take a strategic approach to GDPR as they would with any other regulatory changes.

Leaving each member of the team to digest the intricacies of the upcoming changes would risk employees interpreting elements of the regulation differently and may result in disruption in the organisation caused by misinterpretation. 

eGain, the leading provider of cloud-based customer engagement solutions, today announced its integration with Facebook Messenger.

PSD2 will likely usher in the biggest changes to retail banking we will see for a generation. 

However, with the deadline passing, consumers shouldn’t expect to see immediate changes to how they bank. For example, one part of the regulations, the Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) on payment security, won't actually come into force until 18 months later. 

Reference is made to the joint press release by Thales (Euronext Paris: HO) and Gemalto (Euronext Amsterdam and Paris: GTO) dated 17 December 2017 in respect of the intended recommended all-cash offer by Thales for all the issued and outstanding ordinary shares in the capital of Gemalto at an offer price of €51.00 per share cum dividend (the "Offer"). 

Consumer insight specialist, Callcredit Information Group, is predicting the emergence of a dual speed data economy as the phased adoption of Open Banking starts on 13th January 2018.

Callcredit anticipates a gap will emerge between those businesses that are willing and able to harness the additional potential insights and enhanced consumer benefits Open Banking brings, and those that fail to recognise the consumer and associated business value it can provide.

The growing use of blockchain technology in financial services will include a healthy dose of artificial intelligence, as new, automated analytic techniques look for patterns in the “relationship data” about people, contracts and transactions. That merger of two hot tech trends is one of the predictions made by Dr. Scott Zoldi, chief analytics officer at Silicon Valley analytic software firm FICO, and a recognised expert in the field of artificial intelligence.