Payments Canada has selected global consulting firm Accenture (NYSE: ACN) to help it lead Modernization — the multi-year initiative to transform the systems and rules essential to Canada’s payments ecosystem.

Due to the scope of the program and the number of participants involved, Payments Canada sought to team with a company that could provide in-depth payments expertise, along with change-management and program-management services to help manage the initiative.

UNICOM Systems, Inc. has today announced a new release of the UNICOM^® Multichannel Bank Transformation Toolkit, which was acquired from IBM Corporation in March 2016. New features have been added to enhance performance and usability, as well as support for Docker Containers to allow faster, easier deployment of applications both in cloud environments and on premises.

Xero today announced a series of new integration agreements, that will improve small businesses’ access to capital and credit.

Free2Move, the car-sharing aggregation app, will use Netverify Trusted Identity as a Service to streamline driving licence verification, improve services and drive expansion. 

From today, DocuSign customers across the UK will be able to benefit from the launch of DocuSign Payments, the company’s latest platform innovation that provides a fast and easy way to collect payments and signatures in just one step.

Baymarkets Technology AB (Baymarkets), a leading Nordic provider of FinTech and RegTech solutions to the global financial services industry, announced today its new Financial Market solution delivery platform, Clarity.

Fewer than one in three people (31%) always check the terms and conditions when sharing their personal information online in return for a service, according to a new poll for Payments UK.

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Asset Control today announces the appointment of Gary Appleby as Head of International Sales with immediate effect.

Payment21® and ACI Worldwide today announced a strategic collaboration enabling payment service providers (PSPs) to offer merchants anti-money laundering (AML)-compliant Bitcoin acceptance via ACI’s UP eCommerce Payments solution.