Temenos AG (SIX: TEMN), the banking software company, today announces it is strengthening its Executive Committee, having already announced outstanding Q4 and full year 2018 results and the appointment of Max Chuard as Chief Executive Officer and Panagiotis “Takis” Spiliopoulos as Chief Financial Officer (more information can be found by following this link).

Multi-currency mobile wallet, YouTrip, has taken a stand against financial fraud by assisting the Singapore Police Force in uncovering a case of syndicated credit card fraud. 

Over 85 fraudulent credit card transactions were flagged by YouTrip's Fraud Monitoring System. The Singapore Police Force has arrested and charged 4 individuals with syndicated credit card fraud with another 15 individuals currently under investigation for related offences.

Ørsted, the world's leading offshore wind farm developer, has used FICO^® Xpress Optimisation to develop a novel digital solution for designing an important part of their wind farms. This has enabled the Danish company, which has 30 wind farms in operation or under construction, to achieve significant savings while reducing overall design time and improving its ability to investigate different scenarios. For its achievement, Ørsted was awarded a 2018 FICO Decisions Award for AI, Machine Learning & Optimisation.

On February 8, Advapay held its next conference in Tallinn on “Digital Banking: Electronic Money and Cryptocurrency. Regulation vs technology”.

The venue was not chosen by chance, because Estonia is one of the most loyal states to the cryptocurrency and blockchain.

During the event, the guests discussed trends in the development of banking services and the payment market in 2019.

Turnkey open banking platform provider, Token.io Limited, today announces it has been selected by Mastercard to power the connectivity layer of its open banking hub. The hub will connect merchants, retailers and other regulated third parties to financial institutions in Europe for data and payment transactions.

Further to the announcement in June 2018, Mastercard’s services will include:

Fenergo, the leading provider of digital Client Lifecycle Management (CLM) software solutions for financial institutions, today announces Rules as a Service (RaaS), a cloud-based regulatory rules offering. The unique plug and play solution will enable financial institutions to easily integrate Fenergo’s award winning regulatory rules capabilities into their existing digital platforms. 

About 50 years ago, Barclays opened its first automatic teller machine (ATM) and changed the way we did banking. To this day, the ATM has been one of the most disruptive innovations of the financial sector, which forever seeks to stay on the leading edge of innovation. These days, you can deposit a cheque just by taking a picture of it using your mobile phone. Behind the scenes, artificial intelligence (AI) deciphers the numbers on your cheque and deposits the appropriate amount into your account. However, this is just on the surface because AI does a lot more than that.

CLX Communications AB, a global leader in cloud communications for mobile customer engagement, today announced the launch of a new corporate brand identity with a shared name and visual identity for all business units. Products that were previously marketed under the CLX, Symsoft, Sinch, and Vehicle brands are now integrated into a unified offering.

UBank has announced customers will soon have access to the world's first digital home loan application assistant, powered by artificial intelligence (AI). Mia, short for My Interactive Agent, will begin taking customer questions in late February 2019, and aims to create a smarter, simpler home loan application experience. 

UBank CEO Lee Hatton and FaceMe CEO Danny Tomsett will be on stage at IBM Think 2019 sharing about Mia who makes use of both IBM Watson and Cloud technologies.

NEXT Biometrics (Oslo Bors: NEXT), a global leader in fingerprint sensor technology, today announced that the Company`s Aadhaar-certified sensor module has been chosen by MobiOcean Technologies Pvt. Ltd. for use in MobiOcean`s Aadhaar authentication and Aadhaar payments mobile platform for the Indian market.