MasterCard will demonstrate its newest digital innovations including MasterPass, MasterCard Digital Enablement System (MDES) and wearable technology during a press event at the grand opening of its new technology hub in New York City. MasterCard will also showcase its MDES tokenization service enabling Apple Pay. The global payments and technology company houses emerging payments teams in the heart of the technology community in the Flatiron District. 

MasterCard is bringing contactless acceptance to ballpark food and beverage concessions at the 2014 World Series through a partnership with mobile technology leader MLB Advanced Media, enabling fans to make payments using a variety of NFC-enabled devices and services, including the newly introduced Apple Pay. These two ballparks will be the first professional sports facilities to accept Apple Pay, when it debuts for fans attending Game One of the World Series in Kansas City tomorrow.

As the dust settles on the main part of the EU’s transition to T+2, the DTCC’s recent announcement that they have formed a steering committee to oversee the US market move to T+2 has shifted the focus across the pond. The EU move appears, by many accounts, to have gone smoothly. But under the hood many firms are bearing additional operational costs, providing tactical solutions to keep the settlement process on track.

Encap Security, the first in-app authentication solution to arm banks, retailers and other financial services providers with impervious security and a simple, positive user experience, has integrated Apple’s Touch ID fingerprint technology into its Smarter Authentication platform.

Fiserv, Inc. (NASDAQ: FISV), a leading global provider of financial services technology solutions, has announced that the Comparalytics module within the LoanComplete(TM) suite of product solutions, which already completes the standard document-to-system data comparison, now compares documents to any and all other documents associated with the loan file, regardless of the type of document.

FlexTrade Systems, Inc., a global leader in multi-asset execution and order management systems, has announced that Blackwell Global has deployed MaxxTrader as its full STP and white label FX trading system to process spot currencies and precious metals, as well as FlexTCA for its analytic platform for real-time and historical transaction cost analysis.

SWIFT India Domestic Services ("SWIFT India") has announced that its shareholders and key foreign banks have agreed to enable the SWIFT India channel and use its domestic messaging services for the exchange of structured information across payments, cash management, trade finance, and corporate treasury markets.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) and European Central Bank (ECB) are stepping up their cooperation to increase the security of retail payments.

Mellon Capital, the San Francisco-based investment boutique of BNY Mellon, has launched its Carbon Efficiency Strategy with $100 million in funding from The McKnight Foundation.  The strategy is designed to provide investors with lower carbon em

ANZ has announced that Mark Whelan would join the Group Management Board taking on broader responsibilities as Managing Director Global Commercial Banking.