The Bank of Thailand (BOT) and the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) today signed a FinTech Cooperation Agreement (CA) and updated an existing Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on Banking Supervision. 

Enterprise software firm R3 is collaborating with Intel to further strengthen data privacy and security for Corda, its financial-grade distributed ledger technology (DLT) platform. 

CSI Kick Start, a FinTech startup incubator founded by leading global payments innovator CSI Enterprises, Inc., announced today its investment in ConnexPay LLC, a financial technology and global payments start-up which has designed a payments solution geared towards reducing risk and the cost of card acceptance within specific industry verticals such as travel and e-commerce.

FinancialForce, the leading cloud ERP for the new services economy, is named to the 

Today, Seedrs announces that it will be the sole equity finance provider in a new partnership with Fidor Bank, the first challenger bank to launch in the UK back in 2015. The Digital marketplace offered by Fidor signposts banking customers to innovative sources of alternative investment including equity crowdfunding on Seedrs in an ambitious bid to provide every financial service a customer could possibly want.

Santander InnoVentures, the fintech venture capital fund of Santander Group, today announces it has added UK based Pixoneye and Curve and US based Gridspace to its portfolio in the latest round of strategic fintech investments. Pixoneye and Gridspace deepen the fund’s focus in artificial intelligence as one of the technologies that will transform banking in the years to come and complement other investments such as Elliptic and Socure. The news comes in the wake of a highly active and successful six months for the fund, which has seen the number of fintech investments reach 15.

James G. Bach has been appointed as the International division president of Louis Berger, reporting to the chief executive officer. In this role, Bach oversees strategic and operational performance for the company's International division, which provides a broad range of engineering, planning, architecture, development, construction management and program management services to national, state, local and private clients outside of the United States. Bach will operate from the Richmond, London office, where the company's International division is headquartered.

Australian Securities and Frankfurt Stock Exchange listed iSignthis Ltd (ASX : ISX) (FRA : TA8) is pleased to announce that its subsidiary iSignthis eMoney Ltd (“ISXPay”) has entered into a partnership agreement with Worldline.

Apex Clearing, an independent, full-service clearing firm and leader in the digital wealth space, has selected global FinTech firm InvestCloud as a technology partner to offer a new digital advice platform. Apex’s offering will allow FinTech startups and financial institutions alike to quickly take to market differentiated and personalized digital advisory services, using a fully featured, hyper-modular technology platform, with integrated, API-enabled custody and clearing services.