JPMorgan Chase announced Tuesday that it's acquiring WePay, a nine-year-old Silicon Valley firm that delivers payments-as-a-service APIs. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

At a time when software-enabled payments are growing at four times the industry average, the acquisition will give Chase's business customers access to a simple platform for embedding payment acceptance into their digital experiences. 

Australian Securities and Frankfurt Stock Exchange cross listed iSignthis Ltd (ASX : ISX / FRA :TA8), the global leader in RegTech for identity verification, is pleased to announce that it has executed an agreement to integrate its Paydentity™ UBO Service with Web Shield Ltd’s InvestiGate platform.

• GVNG, a technology platform for nonprofits, will use the FICO TONBELLER^® Siron^® suite of anti-money laundering (AML) and know your customer (KYC) solutions.
• GVNG chose the FICO solutions for their scalability, alert quality, cloud deployment and rapid start-up time.
• FICO offers the Siron^® AML, Siron^® KYC and other modules on AWS, as part of its FICO^®Analytic Cloud offerings.

In order to help American online businesses expand their international customer base using locally preferred e-payment methods, PPRO Group, a leader in cross-border e-payments and one of the fastest growing FinTech companies in Europe, is expanding its global footprint. The company today announces the opening of its Atlanta office, which will be led by Steve Villegas, Vice President, Partner Management at PPRO.

Coupa Software (NASDAQ:COUP), a leader in cloud-based spend management, announced today announced that it has acquired substantially all of the assets of Deep Relevance, Inc. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Deep Relevance uses Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based behavior and relationship analytics to help identify individual employee and collusive fraud or other suspicious transactions.

Appway has released two new solutions for financial services based on its latest Appway 7 technology, already live with clients worldwide. 

After serving international and domestic banks with award-winning client onboarding for the past ten years, Appway is releasing the fully revamped Onboarding for Wealth solution, which integrates digital and physical interactions for hyper-connected customers in the Digital Age. 

Coupa Software (NASDAQ:COUP), a leader in cloud-based spend management, announced today that Coupa Open Buy with Amazon Business is now generally available in the United States and a pilot will launch soon in both Germany and the United Kingdom with an initial set of customers.

‘Building for the future’ – one of the key themes for Sibos in Toronto this year – has triggered a flurry of activity in the form of panel discussions, debates and presentations focusing on how financial institutions are creating solutions fit for the future. Perhaps the hottest topic in this regard at Sibos this year so far has been Artificial Intelligence (AI).

With Open Banking phase two fast approaching in January 2018, Giles Hutson, CEO of Insignis Cash Solutions, explains how the new competitive banking environment can boost saver’s returns on cash: