McAfee, the device-to-cloud cybersecurity company, today released a special edition of its Cloud and Risk Adoption Report, focused on the business impact of cloud services and how organizations around the world are addressing security gaps to accelerate their businesses with the cloud. Cloud services are the most significant advance in IT since the introduction of the internet itself, and most organizations today benefit from the collaboration, scalability and cost-effectiveness enabled by the use of cloud services.

Densify, the leader in the Cloud Resource Management software market, today announced the findings of a global enterprise cloud survey of IT professionals. The survey found that the top priorities for most organisations, when it comes to deploying workloads in the cloud, is all about the applications.

Thunes, a B2B global cross-border pa

Token, the turnkey open banking platform, today announced a $16.5m strategic investment from a pool of investors, including Opera Tech Ventures, the venture arm of BNP Paribas - one of the world’s largest banks - and two other visionary banks headquartered in the Middle East and Southeast Asia.  Existing investors, including Octopus Ventures and EQT Ventures, also participated in the investment.

Compass Plus Processing Centre Great Britain has continued to show its commitment to providing secure processing services for its customers, protecting cardholder data and minimising risk, by becoming certified as fully compliant with PCI 3D Secure requirements version 1.0.

The certification, which took place in March 2019, means that the Compass Plus processing centre ensures the best industry practices in terms of security and compliance in accordance to the new industry standard. The new standard was put in place in 2018 and is mandatory when dealing with 3DS operations.

Broadridge Financial Solutions Inc. (NYSE:BR), a global Fintech leader that is part of the S&P 500® Index, has announced a change management service to help companies design their target operating models to be compliant with the impending Securities Financing Transactions Regulation (SFTR). The new service provides a practical blueprint for front-to-back changes to overall architecture, organizational structure, business processes and location strategy.

Facebook is creating its own cryptocurrency something that even those of us necking the crypto cool aid back in the early Bitcoin days never in our wildest dreams thought would happen. The details are thin on the ground but what we do know is that the asset will be called Libra, it will be a 'stablecoin' (ie pegged to a dollar value, backed by a basket of assets in order to prevent it from being volatile) and there are so far 28 confirmed 'validators'.

Cloudian® today announced a fully native S3-compatible object storage solution for VMware Cloud Providers that is managed directly from VMware vCloud Director, a key component of the VMware Cloud Provider Platform. The Cloudian solution gives VMware Cloud Providers a limitlessly scalable, cost-effective and feature-rich storage foundation for delivering new and enhanced value-add services to their customers. In turn, these services will enable customer

Identitii Limited (Identitii, Company) (ASX:ID8), an Australian FinTech enabling the secure overlay of transaction level detail on top of financial messages using a private blockchain, advises that its customer, HSBC has announced the launch of its Digital Accounts Receivable Tool (HSBC DART) using Identitii’s innovative tokenisation technology, to its corporate clients in India.

National Bank of Canada (NBC) has completed its acquisition of a 10% stake in EquiLend from J.P. Morgan following clearance from EquiLend’s regulators in the United Kingdom, Canada and Ireland. J.P. Morgan will continue to hold a 10% ownership interest in EquiLend.

The deal was announced in December 2018 and closed in June 2019. J.P. Morgan previously held a 20% stake in EquiLend.