Today, we are excited to let you know that we are releasing a new feature that will let Abra customers fund their Abra wallet using an eligible American Express Card. (Eligible Cards are American Express U.S. Consumer Cards, American Express-branded Cards issued by third parties and American Express reloadable prepaid Cards.) 

Back in May, we brought you the news that Xero was partnering with top 10 US bank, Capital One. Today, we’re excited to announce that credit card feeds are now live through our integration.

Boston-based Santander Bank is now live with Docutech’s ConformX, the leading dynamic document generation and compliance technology for mortgage, home equity, and consumer lending. 

FinTech adoption in Canada has increased from 8% to 18% since 2015, according to EY's 2017 Fintech Adoption Index. The trend means both traditional banks and FinTechs are feeling the pressure to develop simpler, more transparent, customer-centric financial services products.

Cority (formerly Medgate), the most trusted EHSQ software for assuring client success, has been named a market leader in the 2017 Verdantix Green Quadrant released today. The company was named a Leader in 2016, and in 2017 it made the greatest year-over-year improvement on product capabilities of any of the vendors in the report.

Utimaco has achieved Payment Card Industry PIN Transaction Security Hardware Security Module Version 2 (PCI PTS HSM V2) compliance for uncontrolled environments for its CryptoServer CSe HSM platform from the PCI Standards Security Council, giving the payment card industry and consumers confidence that their data will be secure throughout the transaction process when using Utimaco's HSM.

Early July SWIFT announced that 22 global banks recently joined its Blockchain proof of concept (PoC) initiative introduced in January this year in collaboration with six leading correspondent banks (ANZ, BNP Paribas, BNY Mellon, RBC Royal Bank and Wells Fargo). The PoC is part of SWIFT’s ‘gpi’ (global payments innovation) service, the new standard for cross-border payments, aimed to “re-arm the correspondent banking system for a new age of technological disruption”.