Adyen, the global payments technology company, today announced that Grab, Southeast Asia's leading ride-hailing platform, has selected Adyen to extend the capabilities of its GrabPay platform in Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam. Grab will partner with Adyen to deliver a consistent, frictionless payment experience for customers traveling across markets regardless of their device or payment method.

Samsung Electronics, today celebrates the one year anniversary of Samsung Pay, the most widely accepted mobile payment system, with about 100 million unique transactions in seven countries to date.

Where it once marked a change in focus, drive and investment, big data is now a term that embraces all data, whether big or small.

This is especially true in retail banking, where new types of data are emerging as banks seek to transform themselves to reflect changes in consumer demand, threats from emerging fintechs and new payment mechanisms such as Apple Pay.

Tagetik, a visionary leader in global performance management software solutions, announced that BPM Partners positioned Tagetik as a proven vendor with robust functionality in its 

JMC Capital Partners is pleased to announce the addition of Dave Campbell as Senior Financial Analyst.

Blockchain – the contentious new digital ledger technology that was first tied to the Bitcoin bonanza but now is emerging as a truly transformative technology in finance.

Goldman Sachs recently issued a report stating that the use of blockchain technology for clearing and settlement in the cash equities market could save banks around the world $6 billion a year. This points towards growing understanding that the infrastructure that supports financial services today is not feasible – costs are too high, processes are too complex to run, they’re siloed and not secure.

Digital identity is a complex area, as discussed yesterday.  First, it is focused upon shared ledgers and blockchain, not just blockchain; second, it needs to have some permission basis; third, we need to have a structure agreed for who is providing permissions; and fourth, it is a structural challenge for

In my final deep dive into blockchain use cases, I come to digital identity.  Now this is a thorny area for three reasons.

First, we need to understand what we mean by identity before we can talk about how blockchains could help.

Second, we need to understand the difference between blockchain and shared ledgers which, for digital identity, is a fundamental difference.  This is why identity scheme experts get angry when people talk about blockchain solving digital identity for, as you will see, blockchain is not the solution.