Trade finance software firm Traydstream has announced the executive appointment of Shishir Vyas as the firm's Chief Client Experience & Digitisation Officer.

As the fintech continues to expand its core offering to banks and corporates of automating the critical processes that underpin trade finance, the appointment signals the next stage in the company’s progress from pilots to commercial mandates.

RBR observes strong growth in spending on European commercial cards as a result of increasing use of virtual cards for travel-related and B2B payments

According to RBR’s Commercial Cards in Europe 2018, there were 58 million commercial cards in Europe in 2016, up 6% on the previous year. Commercial cards represent just 4% of all cards and with many businesses not yet offering commercial cards, there is much opportunity for expansion.

Commercial cards tend to be used for high-value purchases

GDPR introduces ten new rights to data subjects.

Chapter III of GDPR, Section 1 provides for some of the transparency requirements placed upon data controllers as they communicate with data subjects. It explicitly refers to several Articles 13 – 22 and Article 34. In plain English, that means:

1. The controller has to provide certain information to data subjects depending on whether the personal data was collected from the data subject or was obtained elsewhere (Art. 13 & 14). 

Wealth management fintech firm, JHC Systems (JHC) has announced today that it has partnered with US fintech firm Vertical Management Systems (VMS) to provide customers with high quality and efficient market data. 

Metamako, the acknowledged leader in the low-latency, FPGA-enabled network solutions space, has now entered the security space with the announcement of its MetaProtect™ Firewall solution.

Cinkciarz.pl wins against MasterCard. The company refuted MasterCard's objections against the registration of the Cinkciarz.pl company trademarks. In Europe alone Cinkciarz.pl has won every one of the 12 proceedings in which a decision has been made.

Nucleus Software, a leading lending and transaction banking solutions provider, today announced that HDB Financial Services Limited(HDBFS), one of the leading Non-Banking Financial company (NBFC) in India, has selected their lending analytics solution to help them leverage the insights provided by their data and make faster and more informed lending decisions. 

Visa and PayPal today announced an extension of their strategic partnership to Canada that will see them work collaboratively to accelerate the adoption of secure, reliable and convenient digital and mobile payments for consumers and merchants in Canada. 

Convercent, the leading provider of ethics and compliance software, today announced new platform capabilities designed to help global customers achieve compliance with the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) requirements via the Convercent Ethics Cloud platform.

Appian announced the 2018 AppMarket Award winners at its annual user conference, Appian World, in Miami Beach, FL. Organizations were asked to submit solutions that further enhance the development of enterprise applications on the Appian Platform. The winners were selected based on three key areas; creativity, innovation and effectiveness.