Wolters Kluwer is this year’s Category Winner for both Regulatory Reporting and Liquidity Risk in the annual RiskTech100^® report. This comprehensive study of the world’s leading risk and compliance technology companies is compiled by Chartis Research. Notably, this is the eighth time in nine years that Wolters Kluwer has achieved the Regulatory Reporting honor and the first time that Wolters Kluwer has triumphed in the Liquidity Risk rankings.

Nium, the recently-rebranded digital cross-border payments platform for global enterprises and financial institutions, has announced that it will now power cross-border payments for the clients of PhillipBank, one of Cambodia’s growing banking group, across its network.

Cyber security provider F-Secure has launched a new research project to further develop the decentralized artificial intelligence (AI) mechanisms currently used in its detection and response technologies. The initiative, dubbed Project Blackfin, aims to leverage collective intelligence techniques, such as swarm intelligence, to create adaptive, autonomous AI agents that collaborate with each other to achieve common goals.

Klarna, the leading global disruptor of smoooth shopping and payments, celebrates the dog owning and dog loving communities with their brand new campaign – ‘Who’s a good shopper’ – kicking off with its first ever UK ‘pup-up’ in London on 27-28 November. 

Klarna will open the pup-up following in the footsteps of their other successful pop-ups in London and Manchester. This time showcasing Klarna to London’s loyal dog-loving community in a setting dedicated to shoppers and their furry friends. 

StyloPay, specialists in payment solutions and mobile applications, has selected Tribe Payment’s digital wallet technology. Tribe’s digital wallet technology will form part of StyloPay’s cloud-based payments-as-a-service offering that enables banks and card issuers to rapidly scale card programmes and mobile wallets globally.

Signicat, the Trusted Digital Identity ™ company and Twikey, the market leader in SEPA mandates and specialist in optimizing the payment process of recurring customers, have partnered to allow merchants to digitally sign SEPA e-mandates in Belgium and the Netherlands for recurring purchases. The joint offering will dramatically reduce costly and inefficient paper-based processes. 

IHS Markit (NYSE: INFO), a world leader in critical information, analytics and solutions, today announced the launch of Ipreo Muni for institutional investors, the first electronic platform to directly connect asset managers to live primary market information published by municipal bond dealers. The platform provides a centralized hub of real-time pricing, analytics and issue-specific updates for all municipal new issuance.

Standard Chartered is introducing mobile tokens in over 38 markets for corporate clients who use its Straight2Bank platform for cash management and trade transactions. This will eliminate the need for clients to carry physical tokens and allow them to secure their two-factor authentication (2FA) from their mobile phones. The Bank will aggressively rollout this new feature over the next three months, which will benefit more than 100,000 of its corporate clients.

Today, Revolut has announced the appointment of Pierre Decote as its new Group CRO as the fintech continues to expand worldwide. 

Pierre Decote joins Revolut at a high growth period for the fintech, with recent global deals signed with Visa and Mastercard, allowing expansion into a number of new markets. Over one million new Revolut accounts were opened in October 2019 and the company now has over eight million customers worldwide. 

 Finastra is inviting developers to step forward and build the next wave of innovative apps in its global fintech hackathon. Hack to the Future blends virtual hacking around the globe with in-person ‘City Hack’ locations, bringing together hundreds of students, data scientists, developers and fintechs, to collaborate, innovate and build.