Refinitiv has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Giact Systems, LLC (“GIACT”) boosting Refinitiv’s existing risk and compliance capabilities with the addition of an industry leader in digital identity, payments verification and fraud prevention. 

To further help businesses collect payments due, or overdue, whilst remaining sensitive to customers’ changeable circumstances in the current market, PayPoint has enhanced its new responsible collection tool, PayByLink, with the addition of personalised SMS reminders.  Available through PayPoint’s digital payment solution MultiPay, businesses now have the option of sending customers a tailored text message, which can also include a payment link to increase engagement and reduce payment friction.

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd can today reveal the results of a national survey[1] into Brits’ relationships with their finances, and payment solutions. The findings of the research, commissioned by Samsung Pay, suggest that this year’s lockdown has had a transformative impact on the way people want to manage and improve their personal finances.

Aculab, a prominent worldwide provider of API-driven advanced speech and signal processing technologies, is pleased to announce the latest update for its voice biometrics system, VoiSentry.

The latest edition of VoiSentry sees further enhancements to its verification/identification algorithms, comes with improved encryption designed to provide additional security for the recording and storage of digital voiceprints, and features an extension to its presentation attack detection (PAD) function

Kinesis, the monetary system, based 1:1 on allocated physical gold and silver, announces the launch of its new Kinesis money platform. The fully redesigned platform offers a suite of new functions for users to make best use of its progressive technology.

Automata, the UK-France-based fintech on a mission to transform retail digital banking and wealth management, has announced €1.5M in private investments as part of its ongoing Series A funding round and €2M in total investments since the company was founded.