Today, Microsoft announced a 10-year strategic partnership with the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG), a world-leading financial markets infrastructure and data provider. Following LSEG’s acquisition of Refinitiv, a market leader in data services, LSEG has differentiated itself in the market with an end-to-end proposition across trading, execution, data and analytics solutions.

Linedata, a global provider of asset management and credit technology data and services, announced today that Cramer Rosenthal McGlynn, LLC (“CRM”), a US-based value equity manager serving institutions and individuals, chose Linedata to implement a highly adaptable operational model at CRM that positions it for growth, while at the same time keeping in place unique capabilities for the firm.
 

In today’s fast-paced, digital-first world, it doesn’t make sense to have a mobile app without payments. Sending customers out of an app to make their payments in a resized form is challenging at the best of times, even more so if they are doing many tasks at once.

Computop, a leading global payment service provider, and ESW, the world’s leading direct-to-consumer (DTC) e-commerce company, announced today that the companies have extended their strategic partnership in several key global markets. Building on its nine-year relationship with Computop in the UK, ESW will now also use its Paygate payment platform for local acquiring within the U.S., Canada, and Australia, with expansion into future markets already planned.
 

Continued growth in merchant outlet and EFTPOS terminals numbers worldwide strengthens coverage of all schemes, but acceptance of the largest players differs significantly between regions

82% of payment terminals now accept contactless

Marking its official launch today, Beaver Bitcoin is a non-custodial exchange that allows Canadians to set up an automatic weekly bitcoin purchase, directly from their bank account. From now until the end of the year customers can try the service for free.

Shareholder voting FinTech Tumelo has brought together partnerships with proxy advisors Glass Lewis and Pensions & Investment Research Consultants (PIRC), as well as with As You Sow, to combine with its own in-house technology to deliver pass-through voting to the institutional and retail clients of fund managers.

Tumelo provides the pipes for the votes whereas the proxy advisors provide the advice and recommendations.

UnionPay, one of the world’s largest card payment networks, and epay, the full-service payment provider owned by Euronet Worldwide Inc. (NASDAQ: EEFT), have launched UnionPay’s innovative QR code payment service in Europe, the companies announced today.

The world of technology and everything associated with it moves quickly. Identity verification is no different. With 2023 drawing ever closer, we are looking towards five trends and challenges in the fields of data security and privacy, fraud prevention and regulations that will shape how companies verify the identity of their customers in the new year and beyond. 

1. Digital identity to forge ahead

TradeSun, a leading provider of artificial intelligence solutions for trade compliance and automation, has acquired data company Coriolis Technologies, to expedite ESG-compliant trade.

The strategic acquisition will allow the TradeSun network, of global and regional banks around the world, to expand with further innovation across trade and the supply chain. It follows a partnership agreement by TradeSun and Coriolis earlier this year.