Three people are chatting in a bar.

The first says: “It’s great working for a FinTech start-up as I get to travel the world.  As a result, I can easily call my partner and tell them I’m on a business trip to stay with my other love.”

The second says: “Well, you should work for my tech firm.  I get to travel a lot too and have loves in over ten cities.”

The third says: “Maybe you should have joined my bank.  I get to tell all my loves that I’m travelling and stay at home working on the accounts.”

Something like that anyway.

Wavex Technology, the IT services provider with a strong focus on user safety and business cyber security, has been chosen by Doughty Street Chambers, a set of barristers with three offices in the UK, as its sole IT services provider. The deal will see Wavex provide comprehensive and tailored IT management and support.

Coupa Software, a leader in cloud-based spend management, today announced that it has acquired substantially all of the assets of Riskopy, Inc. The acquisition helps Coupa aggregate Coupa platform and 3^rd party supplier risk data into a profile score. This profile score, Coupa transactional data, and other Coupa network data is then incorporated in Coupa’s community intelligence innovation.

In a first for Africa, BankservAfrica partnered with McKinsey & Company to host a National Payment Systems workshop at this year’s SWIFT African Regional Conference 2017 (#ARC2017) in Abidjan on 18 May 2017.

The workshop brings together African financial institutions and central banks looking to modernise an existing, or implement a new, national payment infrastructure in order to streamline and facilitate national payments to support the economy.

Temenos, the software specialist for banking and finance institutions, has won the Best Digital Banking Solutions award at Banker Africa’s East Africa Awards 2017, one of the most prestigious accolades for financial institutions operating on the African continent.

The announcement was made last night at a ceremony in front of 200 senior banking and finance delegates in Nairobi, Kenya.

With the recent events surrounding the WannaCry ransomware attack, REMTCS' ANNI PASS solution would have identified and mitigated the ransomware attack, preventing it from spreading throughout an organization.

Since 2014, the Client Relationship Model II (CRM II) regulation has become a hot topic in the Canadian financial services industry because of its influence on banking practices in Canada.

CRM II aims to protect investors from false investments and provide them with comprehensive information about fees and the performance of their investments. A part of a global shift towards increased disclosure and transparency in the banking industry, its European and U.S. counterparts are MIFID II and the Dodd Frank Act, respectively.

Yapı Kredi, Digital Bank of Turkey continues to develop revolutionary applications and to break new frontiers.