UATP announced today that it is partnering with the Swedish FinTech company Trustly, enabling airlines to easily accept instant online bank payments for ticket purchases across Europe.

Axway, a major catalyst for transformation, today has revealed that it has received the access control and policy management Common Criteria certification for Axway API Gateway. It meets the latest requirements from the U.S. Federal Government to conduct business within government and international agencies and other highly regulated industries. Axway API Gateway is the only product in the web access control category to meet the strict requirements for achieving Common Criteria certification.

It made me laugh today.  I was chairing a panel where Romana Kumar, Head of Global Transaction Banking for the National Bank of Abu Dhabi (NBAD), was discussing their trial of Ripple.  The background to this was announced in a press release on 1st February 2017:

Along with solid growth in revenue and earnings, the technology expert for the financial services industry, exceeded its full-year guidance slightly. The main growth engine was demand from retail banks for digitalization solutions. In the Americas & UK division, growth was slowed by the reduced propensity of investment banks to invest in IT services.

In its commitment to grow in the US market, Misys, global financial software company, selects 285 Madison Avenue as the new regional headquarters for its business in the US. The firm’s 150 employees in New York will occupy a 23,492 square foot floor of the 26-storey, Class-A commercial real estate building owned by RFR Realty and GreenOak Real Estate. They will neighbor the offices of General Electric and Tommy Hilfiger.

Innovative sharing economy marketplaces to benefit from wide array of payment technologies and services 

SafeCharge, a leader in advanced payment technologies, today announced that it is providing its payments technology to Funzing, an innovative sharing economy marketplace.

Funzing is a community marketplace that connects hosts that have created unique experiences with members of the public looking for an unusual way to use their free time. The organisation operates across three primary markets including United Kingdom, Israel and Singapore.

The content platform plans to leverage Hyperwallet’s local bank capabilities to pay freelancers in 90+ countries.

Hyperwallet, a leading global payouts provider for digital marketplaces, announced today that it has begun a payments partnership with Polymaze, a cloud-based marketplace that makes it safe and easy for media companies to engage and pay freelancers. Polymaze’s platform helps editorial and ops teams at media outlets, brands, and publishers get to work with their favorite collaborators, hassle-free. 

We warmly welcome the launch of the Government’s Digital Strategy and are pleased to see the focus on collaboration and inclusion to progress our digital future. At Barclays, we’ve been working very hard on this agenda for some time and look forward to doing all we can to support the Government’s vision.

Turning to the cloud as a foundation to support an organisation is nothing new. For a long time now, IT teams have been moving different applications and services out of their organisation and into external infrastructures. We’ve seen this play out in different technology sectors at different rates of adoption. For example, classic “enterprise applications” to support ERP, CRM and HR are almost exclusively cloud-based now. One of the tremendous advantages of this evolution is that now smaller businesses can access and leverage the same “enterprise” applications as much larger firms.

Fiserv, Inc. is a leader in providing financial services technology solutions all over the world. The company has commented today that the Unified Wealth Platform from Fiserv, the industry’s largest wealth management technology platform, has been named Best Technology Platform by Private Asset Management (PAM) awards held in New York City.  

Currently in its seventh year, the PAM Awards recognize and reward investment professionals, wealth advisors, legal firms, consultants, and other key service providers operating within the private asset management industry.