Vocalink, a Mastercard company, today announces that Andrew Buckley has joined as the new Executive Vice President for International Product, Marketing and Communications. Andrew joins Vocalink after ten years working in the cards industry.

In this pivotal role, Andrew will be accountable for defining and executing Vocalink’s global strategies and leading the product development, implementation and deployment of market-leading proprietary infrastructure and applications.

Paul Stoddart, CEO, Vocalink commented:

Trading 212 has become the first retail UK broker to offer commission-free trading for new and existing customers across shares and ETFs on its platform with no limit on the frequency and value of trades.  People can open an account with as little as £100.  

The same zero commission offer is being made available through Trading 212’s newly launched stocks and shares ISA, which offers investors access to thousands of ISA eligible stocks across the world’s leading exchanges as well as ETFs.

Finastra has once again topped the Overall Trading Systems category in the Asia Risk Technology Rankings 2018. The accolade recognizes the company’s expertise in the treasury, capital markets and risk space and its commitment to helping its clients achieve more as they simplify and innovate with their trading solutions.

Auriga, a leading supplier of technological solutions for the omnichannel banking and payments industries, and one of Europe’s original FinTech success stories, today applauded its customer Millennium BCP, the Portuguese international bank, for winning the Best ATM/Self-Service Experience award at this year’s 2018 Bank Customer Experience (BCX) Summit in Chicago, USA.

Omnia, the world’s first AI-built and compliance-led online casino, has integrated leading payments provider Trustly’s new ‘Pay N Play’ technology to instantly recognise verified customers, allowing them to deposit and play in seconds, and withdraw funds in less than five minutes.

Omnia is one of only a handful of casino brands to use the innovative payments method in this way, enabling pre-KYC checked Swedish customers to instantly deposit and enjoy Omnia’s casino content using a unique individual bank ID.

The Nordic IT services and software company Tieto has entered into a strategic partnership with unified workspace, networking, and analytics provider Citrix to provide new generation hybrid cloud services. With Citrix, Tieto meets current and future digitalization requirements of public and private sector organizations by responding to market demand for simpler and more flexible ICT environments. In the first stage, covering the Tieto Energized Workspace service, over 200 Nordic customers and 250,000 end users will benefit from the new services.

VSoft Corporation, a global provider of information and technology solutions for financial institutions, announced a strategic alliance with Intuit Inc. (Nasdaq: INTU) to enable its digital banking clients to simplify and streamline the way their account holders manage their finances.

Australian Securities Exchange and Frankfurt Stock Exchange cross listed iSignthis Ltd (ASX : ISX | FRA : TA8), the leading payment and identity technology company (the “Company”), is pleased to announce that it has completed acquisition of 100% of the issued capital of Cyprus based, Probanx Information Systems Ltd (‘Probanx”).

Fidor Solutions, an innovative provider of digital banking services, today signed an agreement with AFIN to create ASEAN’s first API Exchange (APIX) platform as Fintech Marketplace and Sandbox - together in a consortium formed with Virtusa and Percipient.