Thomas the crossing network wasn’t happy. For years he had enjoyed helping his friends buy and sell things amongst themselves. Sometimes he would even step in directly and agree to buy or sell something himself, especially if there was there was an awful lot of it. But now he had a tricky choice to make.

The iSignthis Paydentity solution incorporates real time electronic verification which converges authenticated remote payments with Know Your Customer (KYC) verification. By converging payments and identity, our Paydentity solution can deliver regulatory compliance with automated customer on-boarding. The service offers a global reach of any of the world’s 3.5Bn financially included or “banked” persons.

On March 9, 2017, Tallinn will host the biggest Estonian blockchain conference, bringing together banking sector representatives. They will share their experience of implementing the blockchain technology and will discuss benefits of decentralized services.  

A key speaker on this topic will be Jüri Laur, a chief specialist in payment services of Estonian LHV bank. He became well-known in the industry while working for Skype, where he focused on optimizing payment solutions.  

In the US, total funding fell from $27 billion to just $12.8 billion, while the total number of deals was down from 615 to 489, a drop blamed by the report on political and regulatory uncertainty, a decline in mega-deals and investor caution.

Neyber, the provider of financial employee benefits, announced the creation of an Expert Advisory Panel.The Panel will collaborate with Neyber to improve financial inclusion across the UK and act as a “critical friend” to the company’s leadership team. Its members are providing their input on a pro-bono basis and are entirely independent of this fast growing business.

Atom Bank, the UK`s pioneering bank built only for mobile, announces an overhaul of its Fixed Savings products to offer a full range of market leading rates. The new rates will be available across one, two, three and five year terms from Friday 24^th February.

Details of the new rates with both monthly and annual interest are:

·         1 year Fixed Saver                                                       1.70% Gross / 1.70% AER

·         1 year Fixed Saver (monthly interest)                 1.69% Gross / 1.70% AER

 Intuit QuickBooks, the world’s leading online accounting software, has announced itsflagship conference, QuickBooks Connect, will take place in the UK for the first time on March 6 and 7, 2017 at Tobacco Dock, London. Day one will bring together hundreds of accountants to hear from speakers including entrepreneur andformer investor on the BBC’s Dragon’s Den, James Caan.

Klarna, payments provider in Europe, and Radial, omnichannel commerce technology and operations enterprise, today announced a new partnership to further expand Radial’s payment options.

The integration of Klarna with Radial’s Payment platform enables clients and prospects to offer a financing option at checkout to give customers more choice and could give retailers a 58 percent higher order value.

PGi, the world's largest provider of collaboration solutions announced the launch of its mobile collaboration exchange. Particularly, it is the first-of-its-kind, leveraging its global conferencing and collaboration network to enable mobile operators to deliver a High Definition (HD) audio and video conferencing experience to their customers. This is possible through using existing investments in their LTE and VoLTE network infrastructure. 

Thomson Reuters today officially opens Thomson Reuters Lab in Singapore. The Lab will collaborate with the government, customers, tech startups and universities to build partnerships and create innovative products and solutions for professional markets throughout the Asia Pacific region. The Singapore Lab is the first branch in Asia to open as part of Thomson Reuters Labs growing global network, joining locations in Boston, Cape Town, London, Waterloo (Canada) and Zürich.