Since peer-to-peer lending and financing (P2P) made its appearance in China a decade ago, the country has become one of the world's leading markets for the service, with pent-up demand causing the domestic market to grow especially rapidly over the last two years.

VASCO Data Security International, Inc. (NASDAQ:VDSI), a global leader in digital solutions including identity, security and business productivity, today announced an important milestone in its management succession plan. 

CleverAdviser, the cloud-based fund analysis software for IFAs which uses artificial intelligence, has reported passing the milestone of passing £1 billion of client assets through its process.

Hyperledger, an open source collaborative effort created to advance cross-industry blockchain technologies, announced today that 10 new organizations have joined the project. 

Acorns, the country’s fastest-growing micro-investing app with more than 2 million accounts, today announced its partnership with Adam Dell’s Clarity Money, the personal finance app that acts as the “Champion of your Money.” 

The Second Payment Services Directive or PSD2 will come into effect January 13, 2018. PSD2 must be transposed into national law by Member States by 13 January 2018, which means that the majority of the legal provisions will apply from that date.

What Is PSD2 Anyway?

PSD2 laid out the rules and guidelines for modern payment services in the European Union which simplified payment processing throughout the member states.

 Ingenico ePayments, the online and mobile commerce division of Ingenico Group, has today announced its partnership with Europe’s top feel good camping specialist, Canvas Holidays.

Enterprises today collect more data than ever before, yet several studies and analysts (here’s just one example) since the advent and proliferation of big data have shown that businesses aren’t using it. In fact, the large majority of data collected goes unanalyzed and, essentially, ignored.

Even in its second year of investigation, the flames of the 1Malaysia Development Berhad scandal are still burning strong. Malaysia’s Prime Minister, Najib Razak, is accused of funneling more than $900 million from a government-owned sovereign wealth fund into his personal bank accounts. Banks, bankers, politicians, and even Hollywood celebrities have been connected to this scandal. Although Malaysia’s Attorney-General cleared Razak of any wrongdoing in 2016, several countries have continued their inquiries into money laundering linked to the funds.