The Second Payment Services Directive or PSD2 will come into effect January 13, 2018. PSD2 must be transposed into national law by Member States by 13 January 2018, which means that the majority of the legal provisions will apply from that date.

What Is PSD2 Anyway?

PSD2 laid out the rules and guidelines for modern payment services in the European Union which simplified payment processing throughout the member states.

 Ingenico ePayments, the online and mobile commerce division of Ingenico Group, has today announced its partnership with Europe’s top feel good camping specialist, Canvas Holidays.

Enterprises today collect more data than ever before, yet several studies and analysts (here’s just one example) since the advent and proliferation of big data have shown that businesses aren’t using it. In fact, the large majority of data collected goes unanalyzed and, essentially, ignored.

Even in its second year of investigation, the flames of the 1Malaysia Development Berhad scandal are still burning strong. Malaysia’s Prime Minister, Najib Razak, is accused of funneling more than $900 million from a government-owned sovereign wealth fund into his personal bank accounts. Banks, bankers, politicians, and even Hollywood celebrities have been connected to this scandal. Although Malaysia’s Attorney-General cleared Razak of any wrongdoing in 2016, several countries have continued their inquiries into money laundering linked to the funds.

IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced today that it has been selected as the strategic partner of Bank of Cyprus, the leading banking and financial services Group in Cyprus, for the implementation of the Bank's Digital Transformation.

Eurobits Technologies, founded in 2004, is a leading provider of services that enhance development of digital economy through cooperative innovation in advanced digital services.                                         

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Brolly, the UK's first artificially intelligent insurance advisory application has raised a £1 million seed investment round with Valar Ventures, Pi Labs and Entrepreneur First (EF).

Brolly is delighted to be working closely with the partners of these funds: James Fitzgerald and Andrew McCormack of Valar Ventures, the US venture capital fund backed by Peter Thiel, who have made notably successful fintech investments; Dominic Wilson of Pi Labs, the property-tech focused fund, who are including insurance in their investment thesis; and Wendy Tan White, General Partner of EF.

VivaPayments, a global, cloud-based digital payments factory, providing innovative, reliable, and secure payments services to consumers, professionals, and businesses of any size, formed a strategic partnership with leading Chinese mobile and online payment platform Alipay.