Nivo, the Manchester-based instant messaging and identity verification platform, today published a research report which highlights the security risks of financial firms using email and SMS for customer communications.

Written by Martin Hill-Wilson, who is recognised as a thought leader in Customer Experience, the report identifies email and SMS as messaging platforms popular with customers, yet easy touchpoints for identity theft and fraud. UK fraud losses totalled £844.8 million in 2018, an increase of 16% compared to 2017 according to data collated from members of UK Finance.*

Tech repair specialists iSmash and leading European payments provider Klarna have today announced a collaboration that will make phone fixing difficulties a thing of the past, through iSmash’s integration of Klarna’s ‘Pay in 3’.

Equifax has officially opened the global company’s new office and European headquarters at 1 Angel Court, Bank, London with Mark Begor, Chief Executive Officer of Equifax, attending the new location launch for the global data, analytics and technology company.

RBR’s Global ATM Market and Forecasts to 2024 analyses different types of ATM deployer and their ATM location strategies. Banks across the world are rationalising their branch and ATM networks in response to continued growth of card and mobile payments and falling branch footfall. Historically, off-site ATMs have provided banks with a lower cost way of extending their footprint, but even for these locations, banks are critically analysing sites on a case-by-case basis and in many cases withdrawing unprofitable units.

TransferMate, one of the world’s leading cross-border B2B payments providers, today announced a new strategic partnership with Coupa Software (NASDAQ: COUP) – a leader in Business Spend Management (BSM) through its payments offering, Coupa Pay. By linking the companies’ technology, the new relationship – announced at Coupa Inspire’19 in Las Vegas today – offers a simpler way to process B2B payments and invoice payments.

Sidetrade, the artificial intelligence software vendor for business, welcomes the British government’s efforts to challenges around company cash culture, particularly its emphasis on using technology to address the issue of credit management.

Ernst & Young LLP (EY) has named CEO Tyler Moeller and CTO Joshua Walsky of Broadway Technology, a leader in high-performance front office fintech solutions, Entrepreneur Of The Year^® 2019 in the financial technology category in New York.

 Vipps, the owner of BankAxept, and Nets, a market leader in the European payments industry, today announce plans to expand their strategic partnership. The agreement means that Nets will continue to process BankAxept transactions until 2024. At the same time, Nets will further develop the payment platform and support Vipps in the development of new and innovative solutions for the scheme.

The Global Blockchain Business Council (GBBC), the leading industry association for the blockchain ecosystem, has partnered with the Astana International Financial Centre (AIFC), a financial hub in Nur-Sultan, to bring its signature event series Blockchain Central to Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan from 27 – 28 June 2019. 

Recent Blockchain Central events have been hosted in Davos, Switzerland alongside the World Economic Forum, in Perth Australia during West Tech Fest, and during the United Nation’s General Assembly in New York in partnership with the Concordia Summit.