Asian payments specialist PaySec has announced global payment expert Koen Vanpraet as its new CEO as it embarks upon significant global expansion.

Digital technology has changed financial services and is being driven by new entrants that possess characteristics that are increasingly important to consumers and shareholders:  the ability to be lean and agile, provide a best-in-class user experience, as well as grow and scale rapidly. 

Ecobank has partnered with Visa to launch Ecobank Scan+Pay with mVisa solutions to their consumers.

Ancala Partners (‘Ancala’), the independent mid-market infrastructure investment manager, has strengthened its infrastructure asset management and investment teams with two new appointments.

SteelEye, the compliance technology and data analytics firm, is pleased to announce the launch of its innovative data platform following a successful early adoption program. The SteelEye product has been designed to help financial firms meet their obligations under MiFID II for Record Keeping, Trade Reconstruction, Best Execution and Transaction Reporting in one platform. SteelEye also helps firms extract valuable insights from their data, as well as helping them cope with GDPR and other key regulations.

FICO is releasing new payment card fraud detection models focused on making card-not-present (CNP) transactions more convenient and secure.

Today, Oracle announced momentum for its open banking initiative, which includes a comprehensive set of PaaS capabilities as well as an open API framework enabling banks and fintechs to collaborate on a common cloud platform. 

EROSCOIN, the platform set to empower & enhance the payment systems on blockchain, is pleased to announce its upcoming ICO.

The ICO is for the development of an innovative blockchain utilizing peer-to-peer and value-of-transfer protocol to solve global payment problems.

ANZ today announced it had partnered with leading global wearables brand, Fitbit, to offer customers the ability to make payments on the run through Fitbit Ionic, the ultimate health and fitness watch.