Synechron, the global financial services consulting and technology services provider, has today announced that Sébastien Glineur has joined as Head of its digital practice in Paris.

Today, optile, a next-generation open payment platform for global online businesses, announced that optile Open Payments 1.0 has achieved certified integration with SAP® Applications. optile’s innovative solution can deliver faster growth opportunities to businesses while providing a frictionless, unified payment experience to their customers.

Leading international payments platform Currencycloud has today announced the appointment of Anthemis partner and payments expert Samantha Ghiotti as a new board member, to underpin Currencycloud’s ambitious international growth plans.

Leading peer-to-peer business lender, Assetz Capital, has launched a new promotion which rewards its investors with a 1% or 2% cashback bonus on newly lent funds.

To benefit from the cashback offer investors simply need to invest new cash and leave it on the platform until 17^th December 2018 – resulting in a 1% cash back on those funds – and if they leave those funds invested until 17^th June 2019 they will receive an additional 1% cash back. Payment of the bonuses will be made on 20^th December and 20^th June, respectively.

The official collaboration between Projective and B-Hive has been launched at the festive opening of banking services provider Projective’s new offices. Projective, which already has a significant international footprint and offices in Frankfurt, Amsterdam, London, and Paris, will become B-Hive’s associate partner and assist them in expanding their fintech innovation platform at an international level.

Belgium is at the cutting edge of international fintech innovation

Mambu, the SaaS banking engine powering modern digital financial services, today announced the launch of Mambu Process Orchestrator (MPO). An Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) built around the core engine, MPO enables clients to rapidly and intuitively compose, run and monitor API-driven and cloud-based processes.

To mark the start of British Savings Week, new research from MoneySuperMarket, the UK’s leading comparison site, today maps the nation’s attitudes towards saving money and uncovers the regional saving hotspots.

Compass Plus, an international provider of electronic payments and retail banking software to processors and financial institutions, has announced the global expansion of its processing business with its fully compliant, Mastercard and Visa certified UK-based processing centre.

Pini Yakuel, CEO of Optimove, discusses the importance of traditional banks embracing personalised customer marketing strategies to ensure they remain competitive.