SteelEye, the holistic compliance technology and data analytics firm, has appointed Rob Friend as Chief Operating Officer, effective immediately. 

Rob’s 24 years of international financial services experience will be instrumental in scaling SteelEye’s business operations as it prepares to support increasing global demand for holistic, data-centric compliance solutions.

Milestone Group, the global investment fintech firm, best known for innovation in fund processing, asset allocation and oversight automation, today announced the appointment of Marian Azer as Managing Director for Asia Pacific (APAC) based in Sydney, Australia.

GoCardless, the leading fintech for recurring payments has appointed Even Walser as Chief Revenue Officer. Based at GoCardless’ London Headquarters, Walser will have overall responsibility for the company’s Commercial Sales organisation including Sales, Sales Operations, Partnerships, Solution Engineering and International Operations. 

EQ (“Equiniti Group plc”), an international technology-led services and payments specialist, is delighted to announce that its business payment platform has a new name, EQPay.

EQPay, formerly known as EQGlobal, provides payment technology for a full range of assured and seamlessly executed international payments solutions.

Mollie, one of the fastest growing payment service providers in Europe, today announced the closing of 90 million Euro (US$100 million) in its Series B funding round, taking the total amount raised by the company to 115 million Euro. The round was led by TCV, one of the largest growth equity investors focused on technology.

Synechron Inc., a leading Digital Consulting firm for financial services, today announced a strategic partnership with InvestSuite, the Belgium-based fintech company. Both companies have an exclusive focus on financial services and are helping banks, brokers, wealth managers and other financial institutions serve their clients better with modern digital investment solutions. 

The Emerging Payments Association (EPA) is delighted to announce the appointment of experienced business leader and commercial mind, Ben Agnew, as its new Chief Executive Officer.

Every business requires cybersecurity in order to secure valuable data, protect customers and ensure that the company complies with industry standards and regulations. Just like a car needing to pass its MOT every year, any company involved in card payment processing or one that stores, processes or transmits payment card data needs to have its security systems and controls regularly assessed against the requirements of the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) to ensure they are in place and effective.

Central to this year’s AfricaCom and AfricaTech events (anchors of the new virtual Africa Tech Festival), taking place 10 – 12 November, is how to connect the next billion Africans to the Internet.  Several sessions over two days, will focus on how to include the currently disconnected, whether through the deployment of satellite, balloon or standard infrastruc

Electroneum is thrilled to announced that they have decided to apply a third time to Binance in response to a tweet by the crypto exchanges' CEO Changpeng Zhao, better known as CZ.

"We're very excited that CZ took the time to reply and point us back to the application form," Electroneum CEO Richard Ells said. "This means he and his team are now aware of Electroneum's intent to re-apply."