Citi announced the three award recipients from Citi’s Tech for Integrity Challenge (T4I) Demo Day in Dublin, held on May 18. The event brought together FinTech developers from eight countries to present their working prototypes to a panel of judges as part of T4I, a landmark effort to encourage technology innovators from around the world to create cutting-edge solutions to promote integrity, accountability, and transparency in the public sector and beyond.

The award recipients from the Demo Day included:

Three people are chatting in a bar.

The first says: “It’s great working for a FinTech start-up as I get to travel the world.  As a result, I can easily call my partner and tell them I’m on a business trip to stay with my other love.”

The second says: “Well, you should work for my tech firm.  I get to travel a lot too and have loves in over ten cities.”

The third says: “Maybe you should have joined my bank.  I get to tell all my loves that I’m travelling and stay at home working on the accounts.”

Something like that anyway.

Wavex Technology, the IT services provider with a strong focus on user safety and business cyber security, has been chosen by Doughty Street Chambers, a set of barristers with three offices in the UK, as its sole IT services provider. The deal will see Wavex provide comprehensive and tailored IT management and support.

Coupa Software, a leader in cloud-based spend management, today announced that it has acquired substantially all of the assets of Riskopy, Inc. The acquisition helps Coupa aggregate Coupa platform and 3^rd party supplier risk data into a profile score. This profile score, Coupa transactional data, and other Coupa network data is then incorporated in Coupa’s community intelligence innovation.

In a first for Africa, BankservAfrica partnered with McKinsey & Company to host a National Payment Systems workshop at this year’s SWIFT African Regional Conference 2017 (#ARC2017) in Abidjan on 18 May 2017.

The workshop brings together African financial institutions and central banks looking to modernise an existing, or implement a new, national payment infrastructure in order to streamline and facilitate national payments to support the economy.