JCB International Co., Ltd., the international operations subsidiary of JCB Co., Ltd., Japan’s only international payment brand, and Worldline, a European leader in the payments and transactional services industry, announce the expansion of their partnership. This established relationship has pivoted to support both the exchange of global ecommerce and the growth of JCB Contactless enablement across Europe.

ClauseMatch, the global regulatory technology (RegTech) company automating policy management and regulatory compliance at financial institutions and other regulated organisations, today officially announced the launch of its Policy Portal for employees. After the first day of the soft launch of the ClauseMatch portal, the company saw the immediate adoption of the tool across all of the clients with the users of the portal growing from zero to almost 170,000. The number of users is forecasted to reach 250,000 by the end of the first quarter.

Nixu renews its operating model and management system to be the go-to partner for cybersecurity services for digitalization and the best place to work for cybersecurity professionals, in line with its strategy. The new operating model aims to increase client intimacy and focus, strengthen the competence development of cybersecurity experts, and improve profitability through more efficient service delivery. In the future, all Nixu operations are international, and clients are served and competences developed company-wide.

A new Nordic collaboration is on the rise as one of Denmark's largest IT providers in the financial sector, Bankdata, has enabled open banking from Nordic API Gateway to its 9 member banks with more than 1.7 million customers.

With Bankdata’s vision, to be the leading digital partner for the banking sector in Denmark, they are now fulfilling the potential of open banking by adding full access to account aggregation and payment initiation to more than a fourth of the Danish population from Nordic API Gateway.

Today Finch Capital announced the first close of its EUR150M fund, Europe III, which will invest in European technology companies that shape the future of finance by using technology such as artificial intelligence.

Stringent regulations and complexities arising from new communication modalities and remote, distributed workforces are widening compliance gaps, placing financial and energy trading firms at further risk for fines and reputational damage. 

HPS and The MCB Group Ltd. signed, on February 08, 2021, a definitive acquisition agreement whereby HPS will acquire all outstanding shares from MCB.

Plenitude, the Financial Crime, Risk and Compliance specialists offering advisory, transformation services and innovative RegTech subscription products, today launched Plenitude RegSight, a cloud-based Financial Crime Compliance (FCC) obligations management solution.

A new survey conducted by Juniper Research has found that more than 50% of US consumers wanting to change banks would consider a digital-only bank, with the same finding reflected in a similar UK survey.