Metapraxis, the leader in financial analytics technology, today announces its partnership with global professional services firm Genpact. Designed to build on each firm’s complementary capabilities, the partnership will enable both companies to offer Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) teams with - tailored analytics solutions that provide predictive trends, enterprise planning and the capability to automate existing manual reporting processes.

Alipay, the world’s largest online and mobile payment platform operated by Ant Financial Services Group, and The Dubai Mall, the world’s largest and most-visited retail and entertainment destination, located in the heart of the prestigious Downtown Dubai, today jointly announced that Chinese mainland visitors can now use Alipay to pay for a wide range of shopping, dining and must-see leisure attractions.

SSP, a global provider of technology systems and solutions across the entire insurance industry,has integrated iPipeline's award-winning SolutionBuilder® quote and apply system with its next generation financial services software, SSP Adviser. SSP is offering this industry innovation to its customer base to accelerate and simplify quoting, applying, analysis, illustrations and product comparison reporting all at the point of sale.

DigitalPayExpo2018 offers a complete spectrum of experience to stakeholders and the general public as relating to payment systems and fintech technology. It will feature specialized forums focusing on the next disruptive payment solutions that will impact economic sectors such as transportation, entertainment, commerce, telecommunications, insurance, pension as well as general retail and public sector business.

encompass, the only provider of simultaneous, real-time access to multiple sources of global company and person data, today announced a new partnership with Wisers Information Limited, the world’s leading provider of Chinese media and business intelligence. 

With only 30 days until implementation, more than 50% of investment firms globally are unlikely to be ready for the European Union’s new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) on 25 May 2018. This is according to a global industry survey of over 250 financial firms carried out by Cordium, a leading provider of governance, risk and compliance services, along with AmberGate, a data protection and security compliance specialist. 

Today’s digital payments tech is delivering far more than process and cost efficiency in the B2B supply chain, says Patrick Bermingham, CEO, Adflex – it’s alsocreating new value by changing how buyers and suppliers find and do business with each other.

These are challenging times for brick-and-mortar merchants. Across the world’s top 250 retailers, the average annual rate of revenue growth has declined by almost 50% in the past 10 years.

World-leading biometrics company, Fingerprint Cards (Fingerprints™) today announces its collaboration with IDEMIA, the global leader in Augmented Identity, on Japan’s first biometric payment card trial, a key milestone in the roll-out of biometric payment cards. Utilizing Fingerprints’ sensor technology, the pilot will run on Japan’s leading payment network, taking the region one step closer to commercial roll-out of biometric payment cards.

PayKey (http://www.paykey.com), a Social Banking solution provider, today announced that Banco Davivienda has been recognised by Celent as a winner of the Model Bank Award for Consumer Channel Innovation for the DaviPlata digital wallet. Celent is a global research and advisory firm for the financial services industry.