Alipay, the world’s largest online and mobile payment platform, operated by Ant Financial Services Group (“Ant Financial”), together with Valoot Technologies Limited (Valoot) today announced the launch of a campaign that aims to further promote electronic payments in Hong Kong taxis, and which will be made available from February 8 to March 31, 2018.

Traydstream – has announced the executive appointment of Jayan Menon as Country Head for India. Traydstream’s recently incorporated India entity (Traydstream Pvt Limited)  is a fully-owned subsidiary of the UK company, designed to knit together Traydstream’s capabilities across Technology, Trade and Client Servicing, creating a new breed of organisation that marries Trade and Technology professionals.

Ethoca, along with partners Capital One UK and TSYS, announced today that it has been highly commended for Best Industry Innovation of the Year at The Card & Payments Awards held in London, UK.

For two days this March, YPO, the global leadership organization for chief executives, will host 2,000 business leaders and innovators from more than 130 countries at the YPO EDGE in Singapore.

Each year, YPO EDGE, the largest gathering of CEOs from around the world, brings together thought leaders, creators and visionaries who are providing new perspectives insights, ideas, technologies and innovations.

On March 28, Tel Aviv will host Blockchain & Bitcoin Israel, a large-scale event dedicated to cryptocurrency, blockchain and ICO. The conferences will be attended by the world's leading experts in the field of digital technologies. Speakers of the event are blockchain entrepreneurs and crypto experts from different countries, including Ukraine, Malta, Israel, Germany, Hong Kong.

The key speakers include:

Equifax, the consumer and business insights expert, has launched a new solution to support the government Commercial Credit Data Sharing (CCDS) initiative seeking to stimulate competition and encourage new entrants in SME lending, thereby addressing the shortfall in access to finance. 

Intrapay today introduced its purpose-built payment platform to the global payments sector, backed by a management team comprising some of the leading figures in the industry.

A Cognizant report focussed on why financial service organizations in the Asia Pacific region see blockchain as a game-changing technology

Innovation in and around blockchain is currently concentrated in the U.S. and Europe but application of this new technology is quickly spreading over the Asia Pacific region.

Download this Cognizant report today to see how Asia is poised to become a hotbed for blockchain innovation and why financial service organizations in the region see it as a game-changing technology:

The world’s only cloud-based SaaS core banking provider Ohpen has successfully closed a €25 million Series C investment round, with private equity firm Amerborgh. Ohpen will use these funds to further fuel growth and expand into a third country, where it will enable financial services companies to digitalise their services and migrate their customer accounts into the cloud.

Nasdaq Inc.  and Palestine Exchange (PEX) have signed a new market technology agreement for Nasdaq to deliver new matching engine technology via the Nasdaq Financial Framework architecture to Palestine's stock exchang