Finastra today announced that Absa Bank Limited is using its PAYplus for CLS platform to support the bank’s direct participation in CLS settlement, which provides continuous linked settlement services for the global foreign exchange market. Direct membership will allow Absa to benefit from improved efficiencies and increased liquidity in supporting its foreign exchange trading operations and in extending third party settlement services to new and existing clients.

The FinLab, a joint venture between United Overseas Bank Limited (UOB) and SGInnovate1, today announced the launch of the third cycle of its acceleration programme. The programme is the first-designed by a local accelerator for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Singapore that have aspirations to grow and to digitalise. 

Roughly two months after the big and successful event in Singapore, BlockShow team comes back to announce BlockShow Europe 2018 - the brand’s third big conference dedicated to discovering the hottest innovations, trends and sensations currently happening in both European and Global Blockchain scenes.

This time the event will be held on May 28-29; organizing team decided not to move too far from the previous location, having chosen Berlin as a place for the upcoming conference.

Visa Inc. (NYSE: V) today announced that it will sponsor European snow and music festival, Snowboxx, in France, as the event’s ‘Official Payment Partner.’ Together with its partner, iZettle, Visa will transform the payments landscape at Snowboxx – aiming to help 100 percent of the festival’s merchants accept card, mobile and contactless payments. 

Following the release of PCI SSC’s new standard for software-based PIN entry on mobile devices for card payment acceptance, MYPINPAD, a global leader in payments software authentication solutions, has launched its revolutionary ‘PIN on Mobile’ product; MPES. 

Today Wells Fargo & Company announced that mobile banking deposit customers nationwide now have access to a predictive banking feature that analyzes account information, providing mobile app users with tailored account insights and personalized financial guidance. 

Nasdaq Inc. (Nasdaq:NDAQ) and Operatorul Pietei de Energie Electrica si Gaze Naturale (OPCOM) have signed a new market technology agreement for Nasdaq to deliver new matching engine and clearing technology via the Nasdaq Financial Framework architecture to Romania's market operator for gas and electricity.

IHS Markit, a world leader in critical information, analytics and solutions, today announced that KY3P, its vendor risk management service, added financial crimes screening to its comprehensive due diligence tools.

Mitratech, the leading provider of legal, compliance and risk management software announced exciting updates to PolicyHub, its comprehensive policy management solution. With the latest PolicyHub release, clients will save significant time creating and approving policies and procedures.