Santander UK, via its merchant acquiring partner Elavon, will from the spring enable its business customers to join the growing European networks of well-known Chinese payment wallet providers, across e-commerce solutions.

Through Elavon, Santander customers will have the option to accept these Chinese payment methods (including UnionPay and other relevant Chinese fintech companies which offer these services) via their own websites from early 2018. Elavon plans to expand this functionality across its POS solutions, which already accept UnionPay, by the end of 2018.

Trulioo, a leading global identity verification provider, is revolutionizing identity verification with the implementation of its newest product – Mobile ID.

European cybersecurity company Nixu announced today the launch of the 2018 Nixu Challenge. The Nixu Challenge gives participants an opportunity to test their skills in various technical cybersecurity puzzles.

Accuity, the leading provider of financial crime compliance, payments and counterparty know-your-customer (KYC) solutions, has embarked on a project to help payment solutions company, Lemon Way, to more efficiently identify financial crime and flag potentially high-risk customers. Lemon Way has chosen to implement Firco Compliance Link, an Accuity solution which will enable the business to streamline its financial crime compliance screening, improving transparency, auditability and efficiency during the onboarding of new customers.

With it estimated that the new Open Banking initiative could provide a £1 billion boost to the country’s economy, it highlights how the UK has taken a leading role in implementing innovative, far-sighted policy decisions.

Atos today presents the Hoox K31, its new smartphone model, part of the Hoox for business range, its ultra-secure telephony solution for professionals.

Baker Hill, a leading provider of technology solutions for common loan origination, risk management, relationship management and smart data analytics, has released the latest developments for Baker Hill NextGen, which includes consumer loan origination and several small business and commercial lending enhancements.

Volante Technologies Inc., a global provider of software for the integration, processing and orchestration of payments and financial messages, today announced support for the latest SWIFT Standards Release 2018. The implementation of the new standards has been thoroughly tested by Volante and is available immediately for clients.

Corporate America Credit Union, a not-for-profit financial cooperative serving credit unions throughout the U.S., is now live with Arya, an intelligent, open architecture digital services platform created by the founders of VSoft Corporation.