HERE Technologies announced the launch of a new over-the-air (OTA) solution for automakers to use in connected vehicles. HERE OTA Connect resolves a critical problem: ensuring that data, software and firmware can be transferred between the cloud and a vehicle securely to update and enhance vehicle functions.

Alethena, the new ratings agency for blockchain assets, has today launched Alphanet: a service that will provide an accurate and transparent guide for investing in Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs). The platform will bring a new level of trust, transparency and sustainable investing to the cryptocurrencies market. Alphanet subscribers will obtain access to a due diligence methodology that provides a comprehensive rating of ICO and post-ICO projects, based on technical, business, legal, and governance factors.

OSPT Alliance, the global community chartered to drive the future of mobility services, today announced that Americaneagle.com has upgraded its membership from Associate to Full, in line with its increased technical and commercial focus on CIPURSE™, the Alliance’s non-proprietary open standard.

Just Group has developed a new business - HUB Pension Solutions - to transform the way trustees, pension scheme members and financial advisers implement and participate in scheme transfer exercises.

Cyberwrite today announced it has been included as one of only four vendors in the 2018 list of “Cool Vendors in Insurance”^[i] by leading analysts Gartner. The InsurTech innovator CyberWrite has been recognized for its cyber risk profiling technology for cyber insurance. 

The same degree of disruption that has upended the retail industry is coming to banking, according to Paul Kasinski of Sageworks. “Banking won’t be done the same way five years from now,” Kasinski recently told a group of startups and developers at American Underground, which is one of the 12 Google for Entrepreneurs tech hubs in North America. 

Digital transformation has become a survival strategy for banks today. UK Finance’s The Way We Bank Now report reveals 5.5 billion log-ins to banking apps last year, a 13% rise on the previous year.[1]

Chippin, the pioneering new provider of group payment solutions, today announced a partnership with online payment experts, Secure Trading. Merchants who currently use Secure Trading’s payment gateway services to accept their payments, can now enhance their checkout experience, and benefit from Chippin’s new and innovative group payment facility. 

The unique environment for financial services in Africa is fertile ground for innovative FinTech players who are capitalising on the opportunities to disrupt or leapfrog established business models to make financial services more affordable, accessible and profitable across the continent.  

Turnkey open banking platform provider Token today announces that it is enabling Paymentworld Europe Ltd. to provide a bank direct payments facility to its business and consumer customers.

Paymentworld’s portfolio of payment services includes a payment gateway with 400+ payment options in 160 countries, an EWallet that enables B2B, B2C and C2C transactions, independent payment processing and value-added services such as loyalty and bonus programmes.