Finastra has unveiled the winner of the first public hackathon on its open development platform, FusionFabric.cloud.

International payments platform Currencycloud has today ann

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Modulr, the Payments as a Service API Platform for digital businesses, today announced that it has completed an investment of £14m.  The investment round has been led by new investors Frog Capital as well as further investment from existing investors including Blenheim Chalcot. 

Auriga, a leading European supplier of software and technology solutions for the banking industry, today announces Niccolò Garzelli as its new Senior Vice President, Sales.  He joins from holding senior business leadership roles at Diebold Nixdorf for the last ten years.

Niccolò has more than 20-years’ experience in the banking and enterprise technology fields. Prior to Diebold Nixdorf, he held business leadership and sales management roles at BMC Software and Computer Associates among other enterprise information technology businesses.

Having transformed how consumers see ‘payments’, Klarna the Pay later company has turned its sights on the high street. It aims to show retailers how building a positive ‘play-area’ for buyers can inject new life into bricks and mortar outlets. At the same time, it wants to create new opportunities for pure-play digital brands to get hands-on with customers and create even closer engagement.

Atos, a global leader in digital transformation, today announced it has been positioned as a leader in Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) services in banking by global research firm NelsonHall. 

The vendor profile highlighted Atos’ strengths in the space, including its portfolio of proprietary IP and BPS (Business & Platform Services) delivery in North America acquired with Syntel, Atos’ relationships with leading product vendors, particularly its Google delivery partnership, and the company’s existing client base of tier-one banks.  

PXP Financial, a global payments expert delivering frictionless acquiring solutions built for merchants by merchants, has strengthened its expert team by welcoming new Chief Commercial Officer (CCO), Sumit Arora.

SEDCO Capital, a leading global asset manager, has partnered with the CFA Institute to provide a best-practice case study on its fully Shariah-compliant Prudent Ethical Investment (PEI) strategy for a new report on environmental, social and governance (ESG) integration in equity and fixed-income investments.

Lately, there has been a lot of buzz around Mobile Wallets as it is creating a new wave in Digital Payments. Nonetheless, Mobile wallets are still at a nascent stage in most of the developing countries, but has become the mode of payment in most of the technology adopted nations. Those who implemented Mobile Wallet solutions, are witnessing an upsurge in the usage of mobile wallet payments and so the success.