Chris Skinner, the fintech industry expert, author and speaker, has become an equity investor in Meniga, the global leader in digital banking solutions.

Skinner has been on Meniga’s Advisory Board since 2011. His investment is a clear demonstration of his confidence in the company and his belief in Meniga’s capacity to help financial institutions worldwide improve their digital customer environment and maximise opportunities with the onset of open banking.

Concur, an SAP company and the world's leading provider of travel, expense and invoice management solutions, today introduced an electronic fapiao (a Chinese tax receipt) solution, developed to integrate seamlessly into China's WeChat platform. Leveraging Concur's global experience in electronic receipt application and WeChat's powerful user base, the new solution will provide enterprises and their employees with an effortless spend management experience so as to effectively analyze and manage cost. 

Whether your data traverses the globe or between clouds, there is a business and legal barrier. From a business perspective, different cloud providers have competing goals, so the collaboration of clouds is incompatible. 

Governments also regulate the flow information for safety and security reasons. As a result, many governments pay meticulous attention to how information is stored and disseminated. This raises the barriers to entry for companies wanting to expand to sensitive locations. 

DataTracks launches service and software to fulfil Country-by-Country Reporting (CbCR) requirements by

Banking as we know it is changing.

Econocom and Microsoft signed a partnership to distribute Microsoft HoloLens in France, the United Kingdom, Belgium, Spain, Ireland, Italy and Luxembourg. This agreement represents an alliance between the best of Microsoft’s technology and Econocom’s distribution, services and financing experience and will boost widespread deployment of mixed reality for the digital transformation of companies and industries.

Reinventing business processes through mixed reality

PPRO Group, in collaboration with Edgar, Dunn and Company, is today announcing the most complete overview of alternative payment methods (APMs) available to date. Listing and contextualising over 300 APMs, the PPRO Payment Almanac will be an invaluable compendium for PPRO partners in need of insight into the global payment landscape.

De Volksbank and Ohpen have successfully completed the migration of over 122,000 investment accounts to Ohpen’s core banking platform. Using The Ohpen API, de Volksbank has now completely and seamlessly integrated its investment services into its internet banking environments, offering a greatly improved investment experience for its customers. 

Technological innovation, the basis for an improved investment experience 

Maybank Islamic Bhd has launched a rent-to-own (RTO) scheme, the first bank to do so in Malaysia.

HouzKEY – its RTO product – is targeted at first-time house buyers and those who want to upgrade their homes.

“HouzKEY is a milestone achieved by Maybank Islamic, and we believe it will help address the growing issue of concern in Malaysia for affordable home ownership,” said Maybank Islamic’s CEO Datuk Mohamed Rafique Merican in a statement yesterday.