FinTech players are increasingly becoming an important part of the fabric of Africa’s financial services ecosystem and the leading banks on the continent are now more urgently seeking to harness technology innovations, collaborate with FinTech start‐ups, and create a platform to scale much faster – to make digital financial services pay.

The National Settlement Depository (NSD), Russia’s central securities depository, and Waves Platform, have started to develop a blockchain platform to support digital assets.

The new platform architecture will securely host and store tokenised and crypto assets, settling transactions and providing identification for owners of cryptocurrency wallets.

 Excelero, a disruptor in software-defined block storage, announced that its NVMesh® server SAN product was named a 2017 Best of Show award winner at the Flash Memory Summit in San Jose last night. Recognised as the Most Innovative Flash Memory Technology in the software-defined storage category, NVmesh allows enterprises to build hyperscale data centre architectures by delivering shared NVMe at local latency and performance.

Excelero announced that it has validated its NVMesh® server SAN software on the Broadcom NetXtreme® BCM57414 25/50Gb Ethernet network interface card (NIC). The combined solution provides enterprise IT architects with a new option for storage in hyperscale data centres – one that’s equipped with the low-latency RoCE support. This combination harnesses the latest innovations in NVMe and its blazing performance, allowing enterprises to gain greater agility, ease of deployment and manageability in scale-out architectures.

 Tech Data Corporation (Nasdaq: TECD) today introduced Tech Data Cisco Technical BOOST ("Tech BOOST"), a one-on-one technical enablement training solution designed to instruct partners' technical staff on the concepts, tools and delivery methods to effectively deploy and enhance thei

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Tech Data Corporation (Nasdaq: TECD) today introduced AccessEMM^™, a portfolio of enterprise mobility managed services offerings now available to its U.S. partner community.

- Williams Lea Tag, the leading provider of marketing and communications services, today announced that Toby Codrington, previously client officer APAC has been selected as Williams Lea Tag's new chief executive officer, APAC and chief marketing officer. Toby will assume his new role on 7 August 2017 based in Singapore.

"I am privileged to have been selected as the new chief executive officer, APAC. I am looking forward to the journey ahead and believe that we have a great team in place to help us achieve our growth ambitions in the region," said Toby of his appointment.

PayPal agrees to acquire Swift Financial, a leading provider of working capital solutions to small businesses in the US

Darrell Esch VP, General Manager, SMB Lending of PayPal said: