PrePay Solutions (PPS), Europe’s leading prepaid and digital banking services provider, has partnered with challenger bank Countingup to provide business accounting and banking together in one place.

FSS, a Payments and Fintech leader, announced the launch of Paynalytix-As-a-Service at Seamless Middle East, the region’s premier industry event in Dubai.  FSS Paynalytix-As-a Service brings multi-source, multi-format data together in the cloud and helps banks harness the value of their data for improved business outcomes.

Scale-Ups.eu, a spinoff of the European collaboration innovation platform B-Hive, is organizing SuperNova together with Flanders DC on September 27-30. This four-day event aims to bring the most promising scale-ups, outstanding tech companies, and thought leaders from all around the globe in Antwerp to talk, pitch, and showcase.

Digital disruption has brought a new level of convenience to retail, with product information available at the press of a button and payments completed almost instantly. With 44% of global consumers still shopping at physical outlets every week, however, many businesses are challenged to deliver a consistently excellent customer experience whether online or in-store.

Sberbank announces the appointment of Mark Zavadskiy as Vice President for Strategic Digital Partnerships at Sberbank. In this position he will be responsible for developing partnerships with leading Russian and international digital companies. Mark Zavadsky will take the position starting from second half of May 2018.

IHS Markit (Nasdaq: INFO), a world leader in information, analytics and solutions, today announced it acquired DeriveXperts, a provider of valuation services for OTC derivatives and other complex financial securities. The acquisition complements and enhances the existing derivatives data and valuations businesses at IHS Markit.

Ingenico Group (Euronext: FR0000125346 – ING), the global leader in seamless payment, today announced the launch of the Move/2500 B, a portable terminal combining the convenience of fingerprint authentication with the security of the latest PCI standards.

KeyBS, a dynamic solution provider and systems integrator company, and a fully owned subsidiary of Arabi Holding Group, introduced three advanced fintech solutions namely KeyKIOSK, KeyEVD, KeyMobile and KeyWeb at the Seamless Middle East 2018 exhibition. The new technologies are aimed at empowering provision of payment services in both public and private sectors.

The Seamless Middle East Exhibition 2018 is being held at Dubai International Convention and Exhibition Centre on April 15 and 16, 2018. KeyBS the UAE-based leader in the region’s payment solutions industry. 

Bringing the evolution of the CIO role into perspective at #ITLA18

IT Leaders Africa Summit (#ITLA18), Africa’s largest CIO gathering, will be hosted on the 9^th and 10^th of May at the new CTICC 2 in South Africa’s Tech Innovation hub – Cape Town. The summit has evolved over the nine years of its existence, just as the role of the CIO has transformed, and offers an invaluable platform to engage with industry leaders and practitioners on the latest trends and technology developments forever altering the strategic function of the IT division.

The Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply (CIPS)  has partnered with Aston University and the University of Liverpool to look at the future business landscape and procurement and supply management’s prospects in the decades to come.

The thought leadership paper has been developed with academics, CIPS members and the wider procurement community to look at the challenges the profession will face and the shifting influences on procurement decisions by global businesses, and organisations large and small.