Eurobank, one of the leading banks in Greece, recently launched a mobile wallet integrating Mastercard’s Masterpass, in an effort to reduce abandonment rates in e-commerce payments. 

This Sunday saw the launch of MashreqPay, the first converged wallet in the GCC. 

The continued surge of ‘touch and go’ payments is set to save UK shoppers 141 million hours, worth almost a billion pounds in time, by 2021* according to a new study from Barclaycard.

DefenseStorm, a solution that fuses together technology and people to provide co-managed cybersecurity operations for financial institutions, adds to its management team by hiring Bob Thibodeaux as chief information security officer. DefenseStorm has also expanded its team of security experts, known as Guardian, to accommodate the company’s rapid growth.

Gemalto, the world leader in digital security, is supplying Telefónica Group, one of the largest telecommunications companies in the world, with an On-Demand Connectivity cloud service that enables 'out-of-the-box' mobile connectivity for consumer products such as connected PCs and wearables.

Monese, provider of instant mobile current accounts, has today announced a significant collaboration with PrePay Solutions, Europe’s leading prepaid and digital banking services provider.

Axway (Euronext: AXW.PA), a catalyst for transformation, today announced that Axway (Syncplicity) has been named a leader in the 2017 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Content Collaboration Platforms (formerly Enterprise File Synchronization and Sharing). The comprehensive research report evaluated completeness of vision and ability to execute, moving Axway (Syncplicity) into the Leaders Quadrant this year.

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SteelEye, the compliance technology and data analytics firm, today announces that it has joined UnaVista’s Partner Programme. The partnership agreement with the London Stock Exchange Group’s (LSEG) UnaVista is an opportunity for the two businesses to provide a cohesive, end-to-end technology-based solution to help firms meet their regulatory obligations under MiFID II and other key regulatory directives.