The Western Union Company, a leader in global payments services, has received a prestigious 'Lightning Bolt' award for "Best Marketplace" innovation at the annual Salesforce user conference, Dreamforce, in San Francisco, California.

The award for the WU® EDGE platform was presented at the inaugural "Community Cloud Trailblazers" award ceremony, which celebrates companies, teams and leaders using Salesforce technology to create a positive impact for customers, employees, partners and communities.

In a first for UK football, tappit has supported Bury FC in implementing a new prepaid card system in the club’s Energy Check Stadium at Gigg Lane. tappit – also the club’s away shirt sponsor – is a specialist in providing a cashless experience at sports events, festivals and other entertainment venues around the world.

Acturis, pioneer of the development of electronic trading for commercial insurance in the UK, has been announced the winner of the 2017 Cloudex awards.The company has featured in the top three at Cloudex over the past few years. Today it provides its platform to many of the UK’s largest general insurers and brokers. 

RBR’s latest research shows that issuers in Europe are taking advantage of the wider acceptance enjoyed by Mastercard and Visa by upgrading Maestro and Visa Electron cards

Switching to Mastercard and Visa main schemes increases usage

In its consultation for changing RTS 1, published yesterday, ESMA suggests that the tick size regime should also be extended to Systematic Internalisers. I don’t want to discuss whether it is a sensible proposal.

Mobile ticketing is becoming increasingly important in the transport ticketing sector. For travellers, mobile ticketing offers speed, convenience and real-time travel updates. For public transport operators (PTOs), it creates a live, direct connection to customers and enables business independence. Industry interest has steadily grown surrounding Host Card Emulation (HCE) as the key technology to deliver mobile solutions quickly and cost-effectively and for the transport ticketing industry, the opportunity is huge.

Mitratech, the leading provider of legal, compliance, and operational risk software solutions, announced today that it will debut new features to its industry-leading DataStoreDSX enterprise content management solution during Compliance Week Europe 2017, November 13-14, 2017 in Amsterdam.