Apple® announced that iPhone® 7, iPhone 7 Plus and Apple Watch® Series 2 will bring customers in Japan the ability to use Apple Pay®, an easy, fast and secure way to pay for everything in their daily routines, beginning in October. Users can commute and pay for everyday items with Suica from JR East, and make convenient and private credit and prepaid card purchases in stores, apps and on the web with a single touch.

Beeks Financial Cloud, a global leader in financial cloud infrastructure, announced today the launch of Beeks Marketplace, a cloud-based portal that enables real-time connectivity to a variety of exchanges, data feeds, trading tools and news services. Institutional traders, proprietary trading firms, brokers, wealth managers and high-end retail traders can use Beeks Marketplace for site-to-site and direct venue connectivity.

Intel Corporation and TPG announced a definitive agreement under which the two parties will establish a newly formed, jointly-owned, independent cybersecurity company. The new company will be called McAfee following transaction close. TPG will own 51 percent of McAfee and Intel will own 49 percent in a transaction valuing the business at approximately $4.2 billion. TPG is making a $1.1 billion equity investment to help drive growth and enhance focus as a standalone business.

Skrill, a Paysafe company, has launched a new brand for its instant banking solution: Rapid Transfer. Rapid Transfer allows consumers to upload funds to their digital wallet and make online payments instantly from their bank account without leaving a merchant’s website.

Available in the UK, Germany, Austria, Italy, France, Hungary and Spain with more than 100 banks, Rapid Transfer provides consumers with a payment option that has the convenience of traditional online banking and opens up a faster transaction method for online merchants.

At BoxWorks 2016, Box, a leading enterprise content platform, announced a partnership with Google. The companies will collaborate on several initiatives to transform work in the cloud, including new integrations between Box, Google Docs and Google Springboard, to deliver a seamless experience for working and collaborating on content in the cloud.

Skrill, a Paysafe company, has launched a new brand for its instant banking solution: Rapid Transfer. Rapid Transfer allows consumers to upload funds to their digital wallet and make online payments instantly from their bank account without leaving a merchant’s website.

Available in the UK, Germany, Austria, Italy, France, Hungary and Spain with more than 100 banks, Rapid Transfer provides consumers with a payment option that has the convenience of traditional online banking and opens up a faster transaction method for online merchants.

Meed, the Santa Monica-based company committed to bringing socially-conscious innovation to the financial sector, today held a signing ceremony at which HDBank (Ho Chi Minh Development Commercial Joint Stock Bank) and Meed both signed a Definitive Agreement to launch a new suite of mobile banking products into the Vietnamese marketplace in November 2016.

Fiserv, a leading global provider of financial services technology solutions, announced that RNC Genter Capital Management ("RNC Genter") has selected Asset Manager Connect℠ from Fiserv to increase access to managed account sponsors and grow their client base.

Confluent, founded by the creators of open source Apache KafkaTM, today announced that it partnered with DataStax, the leading provider of database software for cloud applications, to provide a solution so joint customers can easily connect Apache Kafka and Apache CassandraTM for enterprise workloads. Confluent Platform enables companies to easily access data as real-time streams and make it available throughout the organization.