Following Mobey Forum’s recent quarterly member meeting in Utrecht, Elina Mattila, Executive Director at Mobey Forum, caught up with Douglas Hartung, Senior Director of Global Software Innovation at host member Diebold Nixdorf, to get his take on ‘connected commerce’ and what it means for banks and retailers. 

EM: What is ‘connected commerce’?

DH: It’s a term used to describe two different concepts, which share a common goal – to deliver a better user experience in financial services.  

Compass Plus, an international provider of retail banking and electronic payments software to processors and financial institutions, has announced the new active-active database clustering feature on its open development payments platform, TranzAxis, enabling system upgrades with zero downtime.

Datameer, the leader in big data analytics, announced it will partner with IBM to create, manage and deploy business data pipelines for IBM's new data science and machine learning platform, Cloud Private for Data(announced Friday, March 16).

Capitolis, the pioneering technology provider for the capital markets, today announces that its CEO and founder, Gil Mandelzis, has been appointed non-executive director of Euronext US Inc.

Capitolis was founded in 2017 by Gil Mandelzis, the former CEO of EBS BrokerTec, part of ICAP plc (now NEX Group plc) and founder of Traiana (acquired by ICAP), Tom Glocer, former CEO of Thomson Reuters and Igor Teleshevsky, formerly Executive VP and Head of Technology at Traiana. 

43% of IT executives at European financial institutions reveal that fears of a cyber-attack keep them awake at night – two months before the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into force, according to figures published by financial services IT consultancy and service provider Excelian, Luxoft Financial Services – a division of Luxoft (NYSE:LXFT).

Earthport plc (AIM: EPO), the leading cross border payment services utility, announces that its wholly owned subsidiary, Earthport North America, Inc., has received written confirmation of the issue of its New York State money transmitter licence, backdated to be effective from 15^th February 2018. This landmark event authorises Earthport in the US to engage directly with New York State resident individuals and corporations, whether licensed or unlicensed.

Smart technology client verification solution provider Know Your Customer has won the Fintech Startup Challenge (Dublin), hosted by Le Village, a Crédit Agricole accelerator programme.  

Intrapay, a recently launched payments company within the Sappaya ecosystem, has announced the results of its new consumer survey into the consumer ecommerce experience and the demand for different payment methods provided through online retailers.

A global leader in online multi-asset trading, OANDA today announced the integration of Chasing Returns’ risk management technology into their award-winning trading platform. OANDA’s retail clients will now enjoy access to the Trading Performance Management portal, powered by Chasing Returns.