Nordea launches the first Nordic bank service via Facebook Messenger. Powered by Nets, it initially allows for payment of Norwegian bills via an e-invoice in Facebook Messenger – anytime and anywhere.

“Paying bills has never been a fun task,” says John Sætre, Head of Consumer Market Services, Nordea Norway. “Now, we are making it very easy for our customers to pay their bills via a platform that many of them are already active on.”

The service is fully automated and the payment is initiated via an online dialogue with a chatbot in Facebook Messenger.

EON blockchain is a hybrid system without any bottlenecks. It is safe, resilient, flexible, scalable with speed of client-server solutions. Due to all these features it can be applied in many industries and solve several problems. Three case studies listed further are representative.

Last night at its Meet the MarketPlace event in Luxembourg, Temenos (SIX: TEMN) announced the launch of two new providers onto MarketPlace, its platform for facilitating the exchange of value between fintech providers and financial institutions.

Openlink, the global leader in trading, treasury and risk management solutions for the energy, commodities, corporate and financial services industries, has topped the Risk.net Market Technology Awards for the sixth year running. The vendor once again came first in the Commodities Trading Systems and Commodities Pricing and Analytics categories, and was also awarded top prize in the new support and implementation category. 

Ethiopian Airlines, one of the largest airlines in Africa, has partnered with Paysafe, a global payments provider, to offer customers the option of paying via Skrill and NETELLER digital wallets.

Ethiopian Airlines (Ethiopian) customers can now use their Skrill and NETELLER digital wallets to book outbound flights from Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Oman via the airline’s website, backed by full chargeback protection and access to customer support in 16 languages, including Arabic.  

Key findings include: 

Robo-advisors in the U.S. invest more aggressively than in Germany

Robo-advisors use on average 10 ETFs to compose an investment portfolio 

Robo-advisors rely on different optimization approaches to determine the recommended asset allocations

Losses can still occur, even for conservative investment strategies 

ThingLogix, Inc., a provider of cloud-based Internet of Things (IoT) solutions and services, announced today that it is introducing event-based pricing for Foundry, its cloud-based platform (PaaS) for Internet of Things applications. The company announced this change during the annual Amazon Web Services (AWS) conference, re:Invent 2017, where ThingLogix is showcasing its technologies in collaboration with AWS and its other business partners.

Imagine a time when you walk into a shop to do some shopping, and there are no sales staff, no tills and no way to pay with cash.  That may seem futuristic, but some of these things are happening at the present time, with a view to being the stores of the future.

For example, some companies in China are looking to revolutionise retail by taking advantage of e-payment technologies.  One, Bingo Box, is offering unmanned convenience stores that require a mobile app to enter, and then you pay at a self-service checkout using a mobile wallet like Alipay or WeChat.

Société Générale Expressbank, the seventh largest financial institution in Bulgaria and part of Societe Generale group, has partnered with Salt Edge Inc. to employ Spectre API into the development of their new Digital Banking PFM Solution.