AIM Software, a global software provider of Enterprise Data Management (EDM) solutions for financial and securities institutions worldwide, today announced the appointment of Ian Grow as Director of Sales for the North American Market.

Based in Washington, DC, Ian Grow will report to Vienna-based Chief Commercial Officer Josef Sommeregger. Grow will play a key role in supporting and expanding the AIM Software's customer portfolio in North America, leveraging AIM Software's success in the region.

Worldline, European market leader in payment and transactional services, will continue to manage comdirect’s credit card processing for a further seven years.

Emerging Markets Payments (EMP), the leading electronic payments processing company in Africa and the Middle East, is pleased to announce that it is now working with Premier Bank, its first customer in Somalia.

Sageworks, a financial information company that provides credit risk management solutions to financial institutions, today announced it will debut a major time-saving enhancement as part of the Sageworks solutions available to banks and credit unions.

These are the times that try men's souls: the summer soldier and sunshine patriot will in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it Now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict the more glorious the triumph.

Thomas Paine, The Crisis, December 1776

Democracy and Reputational Risk

The Banking Industry Architecture Network e.V (BIAN) welcomes three new members to its fast growing global network today, creating an international network of 60 of the leading banks, service providers, software vendors and academic partners.

I have this mantra in my presentations about payments.  Payments is being attacked by Fintech startups like Klarna, Square, Stripe, Alipay, PayPal (Venmo, Braintree) and more.  In fact, according to VentureScanner, it’s the second most active area for investors after lending (

 CSR plc (LSE: CSR; NASDAQ: CSRE) today announced that itsCSR1013™ technology has been used by BrilliantTS, a leading manufacturer of smart hardware and software solutions, to create a multi-payment card. This enables simple and secure credit and debit card payments by connecting to a smartphone using Bluetooth®.

BPC Banking Technologies, the leading provider of Open System payment solutions, together with Palestine Monetary Authority (PMA) announces the launch of the National Switch of Palestine. The National Switch, based on SmartVista, is considered a cornerstone for the Electronic Retail Payments in Palestine.