Synechron, the global financial services and technology consultancy, has today announced its new Employee 2020 initiative, a campaign focused on defining and communicating Synechron’s unique differentiators to market and growing its workforce with talent that fits these traits. The announcement comes at a time of rapid growth for the company.

The IT department was cloud’s natural early adopter. There was initial resistance due to security concerns and the apparent risks to job roles – but the advantages of cost and scalability made the business case for PAYG computing irresistible.

Sales and marketing came next, as companies like Salesforce offered CRM and other applications as software-as-a-service (SaaS) – perfect for teams often on the road and needing daily/hourly access to shared data and assets.

Greater involvement in the supply chain will help CFOs achieve financial stability in the age of disruption says Will Lovatt, Vice President EMEA at LLamasoft

Leading CFOs are forging a greater synergy with supply chain operations to safeguard their organisations against further financial disruption. Previously sitting in the periphery of the supply chain, those CFOs now recognise it as a source of cost reduction through increased efficiency and optimisation.

Comviva, the global leader in mobility solutions today announced that its flagship mobile money product, “mobiquity® Money”, has crossed the 100 million registered customers mark across 60 deployments in 45 countries. Moreover, the product processes 3.6 billion mobile money transactions, valuing over $60 billion annually.

At Mobile World Congress, today Mastercard and Eataly announce a new partnership to roll out Eataly Pay app integrated with Masterpass, to enable multichannel, fast, simple and safe payments comfortably seated at the restaurant tables.

Sberbank has launched a new online service for small businesses which helps them to prepare the documents needed to make changes to charters and constituent documents of individual entrepreneurs and limited liability companies.

Visa (NYSE: V) today announced an expansion of Visa’s Everywhere Initiative (VEI) for 2018 with a more dynamic program, new participating countries, and an elevated level of support for participants. 

Verifone announced today that it will enable its North America payment devices to support all Mastercard EMV transactions, including contact and contactless. As a result, merchants will be able to provide customers with faster checkout and a wider range of EMV-secure payment options.

Enablon, a Wolters Kluwer business, and TapRooT, each world leaders in EHS Operations, announce a partnership today that will enable their customers to be even more efficient in preventing incidents and maximizing safety. With a connector between both software platforms, customers can track and trend incidents in the Enablon solution and perform the Root Cause Analysis with TapRooT® without duplicating efforts. The partnership is the first of its kind in the EHS industry.

ShoCard, a blockchain-based identity management (IM) ecosystem, today announces its upcoming initial coin offering (ICO) for its cryptocurrency ShoCoin (SHO). The cryptocurrency will provide a financial mechanism for users and service providers to securely engage in transactions that use an individual's identity and other personal attributes with less friction.