IBM today announced that it has transformed its software portfolio to be cloud-native and optimized it to run on Red Hat OpenShift. Enterprises can now build mission-critical applications once and run them on all leading public clouds, including AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Alibaba and IBM Cloud and on private clouds.

Wirecard, the global innovation leader for digital financial technology, and Sisal Group, through its brand SisalPay, have signed an agreement to partner in the field of digital payments.

Paymentology has announced that industry doyen John Yeomans, will join as the Company’s new chairman.

Yeomans’ appointment is a positive strategic step in Paymentology's continued rise to being recognised as a true challenger on the global stage of Issuer Payments Processing.

Associated with the financial services software and payments solutions sector for over thirty years, Yeomans has been instrumental in commercialising several fintech and paytech ventures. He brings to the board of Paymentology both operational and board level experience.

The strategic alliance between Nets, a market leader in the Nordic and DACH payments industries, and Przelewy24, a leading Polish online payment service provider, is now a reality as all regulatory authorities have given their approval. The new joint Polish group under the holding company “P24 DotCard” includes Przelewy24 and Dotpay/eCard, which were recently acquired by Nets. P24 DotCard is one of the largest online payment service providers in Poland. With a stake of 51 percent, Nets is a majority shareholder of P24 DotCard.

Financial IT speaks to Michal Kissos Hertzog, CEO at Digital Bank Pepper. 

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Spectra Logic, a leading developer of data storage solutions, announces today that it hit a milestone few companies in the IT industry have reached, namely the celebration of its 40^th year of business. Behind this impressive achievement is a history of technology innovation, customer commitment, and focus on excellence.

Digital technology has changed financial services.  It has facilitated innovation, increased competition and made the mobile customer experience the key differentiator.

While this is good for customers, established institutions have realise that spending years and millions building an ecosystem expecting the technology, customer experience and product mix to last for the next decade, no longer works.

R3, the enterprise blockchain software firm, has reaffirmed its commitment to London, doubling the size of its London Wall hub to accommodate its rapidly growing engineering team.

OpenFin, the operating system (OS) of finance, together with Axioma, the leading global provider of services including multi-asset enterp