Much talk in financial services over the past several years has focused on who will win the battle between the banks and the fintechs?  The fintechs promised to simply do things better by removing the red tape that has long surrounded financial services – everything from making it easier and quicker to get loans (even when credit was subpar); to extending services (like cashless transactions) to reaching underserved population segments around the world; to enabling businesses to raise money through crowdfund platforms and ICOs.

Facebook, Twitter, and other social media platforms play a big role in shaping popular opinion. But they’ve opened a Pandora’s box of potential disinformation and manipulation of the public. After investigating 24 million tweets related to Brexit, cyber security provider F-Secure has identified efforts to amplify pro-leave Brexit views by far-right Twitter users based outside of the United Kingdom.

For the third consecutive year, the Financial Times has named European payment services provider Trustly on its annual FT 1000 list. With a compounded annual growth rate in revenue of 362 percent between 2014 and 2017, Trustly ranks as the 482nd fastest growing company in Europe. Trustly ranks 12th among the fintech companies, and 7th among the Swedish companies.

Gemalto, the world leader in digital security, today announced that Identify3D, the most advanced security solution for digital manufacturing supply chains, has deployed Gemalto's SafeNet Data Protection On Demand to ensure the security of its customers' intellectual property and quality of their digital manufacturing services in the cloud.

Exactpro, a leading provider of quality assurance (QA) services for market infrastructures, is pleased to announce that a team of its QA consultants has completed a review of testing processes for the NextGen Post Trade Programme that is underway at Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX) and delivered a set of test strategy recommendations for Phase 1 of the programme.

LiquidityBook, a leading Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)-based provider of buy- and sell-side trading solutions, today announced the opening of a new office at 383 George St in Sydney, Australia.

 ING Belgium and ING Netherlands have invited Swedish PFM (personal finance management) provider Minna Technologies to participate in the prestigious ING FinTech Village accelerator.