Gemalto, the world leader in digital security, is supplying the eSIM (embedded SIM) solution for Microsoft's Surface Pro with LTE Advanced, the most connected laptop in its class¹ which will begin shipping to business customers in December 2017. Gemalto's partnership with Microsoft enabled Surface to become the first fully integrated embedded SIM PC in the Windows​ ecosystem.

- Commerzbank's securities settlement operations will be transferred
- Cost savings and simpler processes tie in with "Commerzbank 4.0" strategy
- Due to go live by early 2020, once migration is complete

AFEX, one of the world's largest non-bank providers of global payment and risk management solutions, has partnered with Ascent Software, to enhance its award-winning straight-through processing pre-payment and post-payment software, Trident Connect.

According to Megan Butler, a Director at the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), financial services firms and banks in the UK are not reporting successful cyber-attacks.

It is a known fact that technology and interconnectivity  have let to a vast explosion in the data available to organization’s of today. In recent years, the paradigm is shifting in favour of data-driven decision making versus instinctive judgement calls.

DueDil, the company information platform, announces that it is joining forces with Credit Data Research, market leader in credit behavioural analysis, to boost access to business finance.

The two firms - both participants of the Nesta’s Open Up Challenge – have established a joint initiative to boost the level of information available about private companies and tear down barriers in business lending decisions. 

An overwhelming 95% of retailers believe that payment-over-time solutions are either important or very important to delivering future digital innovation in the retail industry, with 42% saying the latter, according to the latest research from Econocom UK, a leading provider of digital transformation solutions. Furthermore, 99% of all retailers said that a payment-over-time model would make it easier for them to achieve their digital transformation goals.  

Digital Debit Group (DDG), a division of Qondado LLC, announces the release of the Digital Debit® mobile Bitcoin payments app. The company's utilization of the Coinbase API system with the Digital Debit® QR platform delivers the first global off-blockchain P2P mobile payments ecosystem for the growing Bitcoin user base and provides the added benefit of tokenized QR transaction codes for real-time, account-to-account transactions. 

1. Payment Services Directive (PSD2) Finally Goes Live

“It has has been a long road to PSD2, given that it was approved in November 2015 by the Council of the European Union. However, it will finally be coming into force in January 2018 and that means that banks must open up their customer data to third parties on request - whether these third parties are their direct competitors, challenger banks or nascent fintech startups.”