Macquarie has worked with Google to make Android Pay available to its credit cardholders in Australia.

Android Pay is the simple and secure way to pay on mobile devices and is available at stores across Australia, wherever contactless payments are accepted.

Ben Perham, Head of Personal Banking for Macquarie’s Banking and Financial Services Group, said that from today, Macquarie cardholders will be able to use their Android device to seamlessly make contactless payments on their credit cards. 

Chubb has enhanced MasterPackage for Technology Companies, its comprehensive single contract insurance solution for technology businesses in the UK, as it continues to expand its offering in this key sector of the economy.

The world’s leading transaction bankers and thought leaders now have a platform to tackle some of the most pressing and complex issues in transaction banking today: the iGTB Oxford School of Transaction Banking, set up by Ted Roosevelt Malloch, CEO of The Roosevelt Group and Senior Fellow at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, and sponsored by Intellect Global Transaction Banking (iGTB), the organisation behind the world’s first comprehensive global transaction banking product.

Swiss-based NetGuardians and Sweden’s BehavioSec are joining forces to leverage their complementary technologies to provide complete fraud protection to financial institutions – and their clients – around the world.

NetGuardians is a FinTech company with specialized expertise in user behavior analytics and profiling to implement controls for fraud and compliance challenges. BehavioSec brings behavioral biometric technology to precisely analyze behaviors at the user transaction level and alert to behavior changes that signal misuse.

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the premier post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, today announced that Avox Data Services, the industry leader in legal entity reference data, has migrated its data servers to Amazon Web Services (AWS).

In the past couple of years, the media has heavily focused on reporting the development of new ventures in the financial technology sphere (''fintech'' as the cool kids like to call it). We have witnessed countless sensational headlines pitting big ''stuck-up'' banks versus highly innovative startups. While these match ups may be entertaining they do not necessarily reflect the history of this fascinating ecosystem. Let's take the time to debunk those preconceived notions.

Wacom Co., Ltd. announced that 317 units of its DTU-1141 have been installed in branches of Citibank Korea Inc. for electronic document processing including digital signatures, furthering the company's initiative to go completely paperless and shortening processing time to create remarkable customer experiences.

Virtustream and Capgemini  expanded their strategic collaboration to deliver modernization and transformation services for private and hybrid cloud SAP® solution environments. This initiative delivers end to end deployments, distinct service levels at the application layer and cost efficiency for workloads running on SAP software. Customers across North America and Europe, particularly across Consumer Products, Retail and Manufacturing sectors, are expected to benefit from effective automation, cloud migration and deployment experience to help them innovate rapidly.

The National Bank of the Republic of Belarus included Alpari Eurasia Ltd. in its list of registered Forex companies. As such, clients of this company - a part of the international financial Alpari brand - will be able to receive services which provide access to international financial markets within Belorussian jurisdiction.