Following the launch of Tatum’s revolutionary Blockchain API Platform, International Financial System Ltd (“iFinancial”) have agreed to a global partnership with Tatum Limited (“Tatum” ).

iFinancial is author and supplier of integrated real-time software solutions to banks and other financial institutions worldwide. The software reflects the diversity of the multi-faceted financial industry and provides a range of solutions that meet the needs of banks, credit unions, building societies, stockbrokers and other financial institutions.

Today’s bank customers want a fluent, end-to-end experience. Unfortunately most online and mobile banking platforms are still very silo organised, with typically modules for Daily Banking, Investments, Credits and Insurances. Even though this reflects very well the internal (IT) organisation of the bank, customers prefer to have a more customer-oriented cockpit, where they can manage end-to-end solutions and not banking products.

The Post-Trade Distributed Ledger (PTDL) Group, which brings together major post-trade industry participants and regulators to drive the transformation of distributed ledger technologies within the post-trade landscape, welcomes BTG Pactual the Brazil based investment bank to its organising committee.

With insurance companies facing an average of 113 targeted breaches a year, it can be argued that cybersecurity is one risk the insurance industry is not prepared for. Prominent breaches, such as the Premera Blue Cross and Anthem attacks, saw a combined 90 million customer records fall into the hands of nefarious actors and the subsequent damage to both customers and carriers cannot be underestimated.

MoneyGram today announced the launch of the redesigned MoneyGram.com online platform in the U.S. The new site has a faster and more seamless flow, added personalization options and other convenient features.

Accenture has entered into an agreement to acquire INSITUM, a service design and strategic research firm focused on innovation through a human-centered approach.

Diebold Nixdorf (NYSE: DBD), a world leader in driving connected commerce for the banking and retail industries, today announced that Zeeshan Naqvi has joined the company as vice president, treasurer. Naqvi will report directly to Jeffrey Rutherford, senior vice president, chief financial officer, and will be responsible for leading and overseeing the company's global treasury, risk management and customer financing functions. 

Xinja Bank, an independent Australian neobank built from the ground up for mobile, has appointed ‘Bank of the future’ alumnus – John Pountain – as Chief Technology Officer.

Mr Pountain, who worked at New York-based neobank, Moven, and before that was at BT Financial and Macquarie Group, is helping build Xinja Bank, with technology that will change banking for Australians who never want to walk into a bank branch or join a bank queue. 

BlueSnap, an online payments technology company, today announced a partnership with Chargebacks911, a technology platform provider for loss prevention and dispute management, to offer comprehensive dispute management tools to users of BlueSnap’s payment processing solutions.