Omnio Group, a banking and payment services provider formed by the merger of Payment Cloud Technologies (PCT) and Tuxedo Money Solutions, has welcomed payment industry leader Keith Richbell as Chairman of the group’s Australian business. 

Richbell has more than 35 years’ industry experience, working across retail banking, foreign exchange, real-time and card payments, as well as FinTech. He has worked for major international brands, including Citibank and Santander, Travelex and Vocalink, in addition to eftpos Australia and PCT.  

 iwoca, the UK’s fastest growing small business lender, today announces it has connected to Barclays and HSBC banks under Open Banking. This expands the number of Open Banking connections offered by iwoca to three, including Lloyds Bank, and will enable more than 60 percent of the lender’s customers to take advantage of the Open Banking service.

On December 10th 2018 the Sberbank Group announced the appointment of David Rafalovsky as Executive Vice President. 

CLX Communications AB, a global leader in cloud communications for customer engagement through mobile technology, today announced the appointment of Roshan Saldanha as its new Chief Financial Officer. Roshan joins CLX from a previous role as CFO of Tele2 Sverige AB, Sweden's second-largest telecom operator, and will assume his role at CLX on March 5, 2019.

Actis, a leading growth markets investor, has announced their agreement to the sale of Compuscan, a provider of credit information and analytics services, to Experian for ZAR3.72 billion (USD263 million).

The slower than expected negotiating progress between the United Kingdom and the European Union and the ongoing uncertainty of the outcome has positioned Brexit as a top systemic risk concern for 2019, although cybersecurity and other geopolitical risks around the globe continue to dominate the risk landscape, according to a new survey published by The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the premier post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry. 

DataArt, a global technology consultancy that designs, develops, and supports unique software solutions, today announced that it has partnered with R3, an enterprise blockchain software firm, to develop innovative products and solutions on R3’s Corda platform.

Actis, a leading growth markets investor, has announced their agreement to the sale of Compuscan, a provider of credit information and analytics services, to Experian for ZAR3.72 billion (USD263 million).

The acquisition is subject to review by the competition regulator in South Africa.

Established in South Africa in 1994, Compuscan started as a credit bureau, focused on the micro-lending industry. It enabled micro lenders to avoid financial loss by identifying clients’ repayment probability before issuing a loan.

genesis, the international capital markets software firm and OpenFin are pleased to announce their partnership, to provide clients with scalable and interoperable technology and desktop solutions, built and deployed at great speed. The partnership helps drive front to back office digital transformation projects across capital markets - from the server to the desktop - bringing together genesis’ ability for agile software development and OpenFin’s application interoperability across financial desktops.

Governments, banks and enterprises across Europe can now access everything they need to establish the highest level of non-repudiation in eIDAS-compliant remote Qualified Electronic Signature (QES) services via ZetesConfidens’ eaZyCert and eaZySign services.