ING announced today the appointment of Mark Milders as head of ING Group Investor Relations. Mark will succeed Malcolm Brown, who will take up the position of project lead for Strategy and Innovation at ING Wholesale Banking on 15 May 2017. 

Kreditech Group’s subsidiary, LLC MFC "Kreditech Rus", received the status of a Microfinance Company (MFC) on March 27, 2017 from the Central Bank of Russia.

Aspect Software has strengthened its commitment to its work in banking fraud prevention and mobile banking, by becoming a service provider member of the GSMA.

Avelacom has expanded its low latency network and launched a new point of presence (PoP) to connect Interxion’s London data centre and Borsa Istanbul, making it easier for London’s capital markets players to enter emerging markets and exploit cross-venue arbitrage opportunities. 

Interxion’s London data centre is home to an extensive financial services hub, made up of over two hundred market participants including key equity and commodity exchanges, Points of Presence (PoPs) for twelve major global execution venues as well as international banks, brokers and trading firms. 

It’s been 20 years since Lastminute.com turned the travel industry upside down. Now Airbnb has done it again. Google, Apple and Here have long since done to TomTom what TomTom itself did to the paper map. Not to mention the changes ushered in by eBay, Amazon, Netflix, Spotify, Alibaba and others: Streaming media, e-commerce and mobile commerce are now a fundamental part of everyday life.

Today MoneyOnMobile, Inc. (MOMT) reported a Bill Collection Agreement with BSES Yamuna Power Limited, to provide its 1.50 million customers the opportunity to pay their electricity bills through any of MoneyOnMobile's 330,000 retail outlets or through MoneyOnMobile's mobile wallet app.

Thales, a leader in critical information systems, cybersecurity and data security, announces integration of its market-leading nShield hardware security module (HSM) with Chain, provider of enterprise-grade blockchain infrastructure that enables organizations – including Nasdaq, Citi and 

This marcus evans strategic finance event will look beyond KPIs and scorecards, and discuss topics around a more proactive and market-oriented approach to controlling. We will discuss finance business partnering, and people development challenges around that, change management and turnaround projects, pricing transformation and reporting innovations, as well as other hands-on business finance topics.

Today CBOE Holdings, Inc. announced that the CBOE Futures Exchange (CFE) will be the first of the CBOE Holdings exchanges to migrate onto the Bats technology platform, with an expected switch-over on Sunday, February 25, 2018. 

EMV^® chip has had a staggering impact on the payments ecosystem since its introduction roughly twenty years ago.

With migration progressing at different paces globally and the way we transact continuing to evolve – as wearables and smartphones shake up the ecosystem even more – EMV sits at the centre of the payments world.

But why is EMV so important, what do stakeholders need to know and what are the next steps? We chatted to FIME’s EMV expert Joe Santana, to give us a global overview.