Ingenico Group (Euronext: FR0000125346-ING), global leader in seamless payment, announced today that Ingenico Payment Services has become a Demandware LINK Partner to enable simple integration between its international payment platform and the Demandware Commerce Cloud.

This partnership will give Demandware online merchants access to Ingenico’s end-to-end solution which includes a secure multi-channel payments solution offering a wide range of international and local payment methods, and a fraud prevention solution.

The leading provider of transaction automation solutions in Central and Eastern Europe, and INETCO^® Systems Limited, a leading provider of real-time transaction monitoringand banking analytics software solutions, have teamed to help financial organizations in the region gain on-demand access to rich customer transaction data through the

Bank of Scotland today announced that its next £5 and £10 banknotes will be printed on polymer, and the first of these will be issued this November to celebrate the bank’s partnership with BBC Children in Need.

Rackspace^® (NYSE: RAX), the #1 managed cloud company, today announced that Zipline Labs, a mobile money movement platform, is leveraging Rackspace Managed Cloud and DevOps Automation Service to power its application and API. With continuous deployment and monitoring, Zipline achieves optimal uptime and performance so it can deliver a seamless, real-time messaging experience to users.

Dinube, Europe’s first payment network that enables consumers to replace credit/debit cards with their smartphones, announces the latest rollout by the $1BN European supermarket chain BonPreu. Dinube’s groundbreaking new payment network uses tokenization, Near Field Communication (NFC) technology and biometric fingerprint security to make card-based payments a thing of the past.

nexo, the association set up to develop and promote open standards for card payments, has announced the findings of a study that explores the benefits of harmonising card payment acceptance for Europe’s leading retailers.

At todays Innovation Finance event that was wonderfully attended and organised the topical issue of Cyber crime was presented. It amazed me that there are so many new vendors producing imaginative system solutions that cover cyber crime protection and prevention.

One thing that came over relentlessly during all the presentations was that anyone and everyone is open to cyber crime and the question is only when it will impact you not if.

There have been a lot of headlines over the past few years announcing that ‘Alternative Finance Is Storming The Barricades of Traditional Banking’. The revolutionaries in the alternative finance movement argue that they are going to sweep away the old order and offer customers a complete alternative – they will no longer need their old providers in this brave new world. Alternative finance will meet their needs on its own.