SAFA Bank, a new Islamic bank in Ramallah Palestine, has gone live on the Islamic version of Temenos’ T24 core banking system. The project was delivered by the vendor’s partner ITSS Global.

Temenos now markets the Islamic version of T24 as IslamicSuite.

SAFA Bank offers retail and corporate banking products and services in compliance with the Shari’ah principles.

Nidal Al Barghouti, GM of SAFA Bank, says Temenos offers “a best of breed Islamic banking solution, which is Shari’ah-compliant and flexible”.

GFT, the international provider of innovative IT solutions and services and a leading specialist in the financial sector, announces its participation once again in the Mobile World Congress, which will take place from 27 February to 1 March in Barcelona. In particular, GFT is one of the companies that will be based in ‘4 Years From Now’ (4YFN), the international gathering of tech entrepreneurs that will celebrate its fourth edition, which hopes to reach 20,000 attendees this year.

360T Group, Deutsche Börse Group’s powerhouse for FX and independent global provider of a multi-bank, multi-asset trading platform, continuous to invest in accelerating its strong growth path by making a high caliber addition to its Management.

Simon Jones has been appointed as Chief Growth Officer and will be a member of 360T’s Global Executive Board. He will be based in London and reports directly to Carlo Kölzer, Founder and CEO of 360T Group.

FIME is pleased to announce that its Global test tool has achieved AMEX Enabled accreditation* for cloud-based payment mobile application testing. This news expands FIME’s extensive portfolio of laboratory services and test tools for AMEX issuers and payment solution providers.

USA Technologies, Inc., together with Urban Airship, plans to demonstrate their collaboration supporting USAT’s MORE. Loyalty Program, and its planned integration with Apple Pay, at the Urban Airship exhibit at Mobile World Congress (MWC). Collectively, we will be showcasing enhanced consumer engagement capabilities and simplified enrollment processes.

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), world’s leading IT services, consulting and business solutions organization, has broken into the list of the Top 3 most valuable brands in the IT Services industry. Brand Finance, the world’s leading brand valuation firm, held the assessment.

FIX Trading Community, the non-profit, industry-driven standards body at the heart of global financial trading, today announced the publication of a document detailing extensions to the FIX Protocol to meet the requirements of MiFID II and MiFIR. The FIX Global Technical Committee has approved these changes and these are now available to use within the industry.

People’s Bank of Zanzibar (PBZ), a state-owned and one of the oldest commercial banks in Tanzania has chosen  the multi-awards winning systems ICS BANKS® and ICS BANKS®ISLAMIC Systems, announces Zanzibar, Tanzania:ICS Financial Systems Limited (ICSFS), the global software and services provider for banks and financial institutions.

FinTech companies are one of the fastest-growing business ventures in Europe today. This comes as no surprise, since EU regulations and various governments are willing to help this flourishing industry. As a consequence of this positive growth, innovative start-ups have to face the challenge of a constant, and heavy, workload. So what’s the source of the heavy workload, and what can fintech CEOs do to manage it? 

Calypso Technology Inc., a leading provider of capital markets and investment management software, announced it has appointed Edmond Tehini as Managing Director of Sales in the Middle East, based in Dubai.

Tehini has held senior sales management roles at IHS Markit in France, Switzerland, and Southern Europe. He was previously with Calypso until 2014.