Today Rambus Inc. announced that eftpos, the Australian domestic debit network, is using the Rambus Token Service Provider (TSP) technology to securely digitize payment cards to support Android Pay. The proven and trusted Rambus TSP platform enables eftpos to maintain consumer data securely through tokenization, which allows the replacement of sensitive data with unique reference numbers so information is not compromised. 

In the world of software development, machine learning and artificial intelligence is the hot subject, and might very well continue to be so even in to 2018, since the trend shows no signs of slowing down.

There is a very early emergence of Chatbot capabilities being enriched by Blockchain. There are three distinctive use cases: 

 Conversational Customer Consent

Certain types of Chatbots provide a viable alternative to dense ‘legal’ content such as Terms of Conditions or Financial Product Conditions. This is relevant where there are customer choices that impact the outcome. As examples: 

eftpos today announced that eftpos is now available on Android Pay, with ANZ and Cuscal being the first Australian financial institutions to make the service available to eftpos-only cardholders.

Zilliqa, a high-speed blockchain platform from researchers at the National University of Singapore, has today announced a strategic partnership with FBG Capital, one of the world’s leading digital asset management firms. 

Token, Inc., a turnkey open banking platform provider, and Envestnet | Yodlee, a leading data aggregation and data analytics platform powering dynamic, cloud-based innovation for digital financial services, today announced a strategic partnership to combine their expertise in PSD2-compliant payment

To help device manufacturers meet a growing demand for long-lasting low-power NarrowBand (NB) IoT modules, Gemalto and Huawei – via its semiconductor arm, HiSilicon – are working together to develop the next generation of modules that combine an extra level of security and consume very low power.

BLIK mobile payment system has become “BLIK Payment Scheme” as well. 

AbacusNext®, the largest Technology-as-a- Service (TaaS) provider for the professional services industry, is pleased to announce the acquisition of HotDocs, the global leader in document automation.