Signicat, a leader in verified digital identity solutions, is bringing in new expertise and capabilities to help accelerate its international expansion. Johan Tjärnberg, special advisor at Ingenico Group and previous CEO of Bambora, has been appointed as new Chairman and Asger Hattel, previous CEO and Head of Nets Merchant Services, is being appointed as new CEO. Gunnar Nordseth, current CEO and co-founder of Signicat, will remain as a shareholder and transition into a senior business development role.

ING today officially opened its new corporate office in Amsterdam. This office is named Cedar and is a central part of Cumulus Park, the recently launched innovation district in the southeast area of Amsterdam. Cedar is one of the five ING office buildings that form Cumulus Park. Next to workspace for ING staff about 20% of the buildings is reserved for collaborative innovation with external parties.

Wirecard, the global innovation leader for digital financial technology, and Sprint (NYSE: S), a leading US communications services company, today announced a new relationship that will integrate Wirecard’s unified commerce solutions into Sprint’s Curiosity™ Internet of Things (IoT) platform to deliver the “Internet of Payments”. The announcement was made at CES 2020. The two companies, brought together by SoftBank Investment Advisers, are collaborating to embed payment capabilities in IoT deployments, bringing added value to enterprise clients on a global scale.

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) (BSE: 532540, NSE: TCS), a leading global IT services, consulting and business solutions organization, announced that Bajaj Allianz General Insurance, a leading private sector general (P&C and health) insurance company in India, has successfully moved its core policy administration system for its travel lines of businesses onto TCS BaNCS^TM Cloud for Insurance.

Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), the bank of the world’s most innovative companies and their investors, today announced three senior hires in its specialty finance group. Emily Barron, former head of finance at Branch International, and Brian Foley, former managing director at Macquarie Group, will be responsible for co-leading warehouse credit solutions across the US.

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1. Fraudsters Innovate Too

In 2019, Authorised Push Payment Fraud (APP Fraud) rose by 40%, costing the UK £616 million.

Thanks to PSD2 and Open Banking, we will continue to see more new players in fintech. This is brilliant, but it means fraudsters will inevitably innovate their techniques, too. As a result, in 2020 we will see banks enhance their security and implement measures to protect customers, such as payment delays, SCA, 2FA and Confirmation of Payee.

Scality, leader in software solutions for global data orchestration and distributed file and object storage, today announced that the new IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Object-Based Storage 2019 Vendo

Forter was named the leader in e-commerce Fraud Prevention and rated the highest for Innovation in the 2020 Frost Radar in the U.S. e-commerce Fraud Prevention Market.

The gig economy is stronger than ever, and it’s important for anyone to recognize the benefits of working a side job that brings some extra money to the table. Sure, it’s often not something that can completely substitute your regular income, and it requires some luck to get things right in most cases. But if you play your cards right and know what you’re doing, this can definitely be a viable choice.