Wolters Kluwer’s Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) division has won three major accolades, recognizing it as a “Global Employer of the Year”. The awards, all decided by independent editorial panels, “celebrate Wolters Kluwer GRC as an employer that values it’s staff, recognizes and promotes talent from within and fosters a collaborative and high-performing culture,” according to a statement from the company.

Monica Eaton-Cardone, COO and Co-Founder of dispute management specialist, Chargebacks911, has been named winner of the Women in Payments US Innovation Award.

The 2020 awards program, which took place at the Ritz-Carlton Tysons Corner, in Virginia this week, recognises the achievements of those that distinguished themselves as leaders and innovators in the payments industry throughout 2019.

NYMBUS, a provider of the world’s most advanced financial services platform, today announced 

Many businesses have increased their investments in cybersecurity and data protection in recent years and, in many ways, it has paid off. Consumers have seen a 25 percent decrease in debit and credit card compromises since 2017, according to a recent Cybersecurity Awareness Insights Study from Fiserv. Businesses have innovated, incorporated more layers of protection and leveraged emerging technologies to thwart bad actors before they strike.

While there is hardly any denying that cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin are quite important for businesses as it enhances customer convenience in terms of payments among other benefits, although, many businesses find themselves confronted with unwavering uncertainty when considering cybersecurity and it could possibly affect business functions as well as business success.

Bank of America Merrill Lynch found in 2018 that firms with a better ESG record than their peers produced higher three-year returns, were more likely to become high-quality stocks and less likely to have large price declines or go bankrupt.

However, study by NN Investment Partners1 showed that more than half of professional investors still think that incorporating ESG into their investment strategy will reduce their returns, with more than 70% thinking this in Italy and the Netherlands, along with 80% of German investors.

Burrow, part of the DPR group and provider of customer onboarding as a service technology, have announced their latest partnership with Saffron Building Society to launch a fully automated pre-application qualification solution for new mortgage customers.

The Burrow platform offers a slick user interface that enables lenders and intermediaries to pre-qualify customer mortgage enquiries with an easy to adopt ‘plug and play’ solution, without the need to integrate into core banking platforms, although a fully integrated option is also available.

Leading provider of self-invested pension products integrates Cashfac’s flagship solution to drive process automation and increase productivity

A leading provider of self-invested pension products (SIPPs) – has doubled customer growth of their business operations by integrating Cashfac’s flagship virtual accounts solution with its existing core systems.

Standard Chartered and leading payments solution provider, Assembly Payments, have set up a new joint venture to deliver next generation payment solutions for the USD 29 trillion global e-commerce industry.

The new company will be headquartered in Singapore with the intent to grow the business globally, and will offer a sophisticated digital payment platform to manage transactions across multiple payment types and countries, including online, mobile and point-of-sale, digital wallets, debit and credit cards and real-time payments.

2020 is a leap year — the one year in four when tradition says it is acceptable for women to propose to their partner on February 29.

Shopping service Klarna believes everyone should get what they love, and not have their decisions dictated by outdated rules or traditions. Launching today, Klarna and fashion activist and celebrity stylist Bea Åkerlund, have released a pair of limited-edition rings — the Knight Finger and Unification — empowering everyone to propose when and how they want.