As nexo standards continues to respond to the expanding needs of the payments market, the association today announces that ten companies have joined its membership base in 2018 to support the growth of fast, borderless and interoperable card payments globally. 

Financial IT interviews Mark Bradbury, Managing Director of Apply Financial

Paybase Head of Marketing Jessy Conflon explaining how Paybase is enabling more firms to get to market and build better products.

Investors are growing increasingly uncertain over cryptocurrency, with less than 1% indicating that it makes up a significant portion of their investment portfolio according to new data from Assetz Capital’s Q4 Investor Barometer.

The Western Union Company (NYSE: WU), a leader in cross-border, cross-currency money movement, has launched the 

KnowBe4, the provider of the world’s largest security awareness training and simulated phishing platform, today announced it has launched a new platform called PhishER that helps security teams analyse, prioritise and manage email that has been reported as suspect by employees. With PhishER, security teams can identify the most dangerous threats more quickly and efficiently.

Standards. They form a significant part of the end-to-end financial services testing and consulting FIME provides, and in the world of payments, they’re far from new. Yet, despite a lot being achieved in the last few decades, there is still work to be done to realize true standardization and, more crucially, interoperability.

Omnio Group, a banking and fintech provider formed by the merger of Payment Cloud Technologies (PCT) and Tuxedo Money Solutions, has partnered with Unisys Corporation (NYSE: UIS) to support the organisation in providing cloud based digital current account services to Monmouthshire Building Society (MBS).

“With 2018 drawing to a close, many high street banks will be reflecting on a tough year. From IT failures, more branch closures and the seemingly exponential growth in popularity of the multitude of challenger banks entering the market.

This week in New York, the UN Member States voted in favor of the Global Compact on Refugees. The integration of the world’s 25.4 million refugees into new communities is a topic that touches nations all over the world, but one that is also fraught with controversy and tension.