Switch Datacenters, a European provider of build-to-suit corporate data centers and enterprise-grade colocation facilities, announces the launch of its wholesale Data Center as a Service program enabling rapid data center deployment on a global scale.

collectAI today announced that it has partnered with Pay360 by Capita and with this its official UK launch. With collectAI as the technology provider, Pay360 will build a branded receivables management solution for its business and government clients. The Artificial Intelligence (AI) based collections company collectAI is an Otto Group subsidiary company launched in 2016 with today 40m EUR receivables under management. Pay360 is the third white label dunning partner  for collectAI, amongst a further 20 clients from medium and large businesses.

Earlier today, Mastercard released its financial results for the fourth quarter and full-year 2017. We delivered another strong quarter, driven by solid momentum in our core business. This was seen in the growth of net revenue and earnings per share, before we took a couple of one-time charges.

Nordea Bank AB (publ) has today, on behalf of the wholly owned subsidiary Nordea Holding Abp (“Nordea Finland”) applied for the admission of Nordea Finland’s shares to trading on Nasdaq Helsinki, Nasdaq Stockholm and Nasdaq Copenhagen. 

TIBCO Software Inc., a global leader in integration, API management, and analytics, is expanding the scope of its partnership with TXODDS, a global leader in real-time betting odds, with the provision of TIBCO Spotfire® data visualisation software for fast and simple analysis of betting data.     

Today Maitland, one of the leading global advisory and fund administrators for listed funds, announced that it has been chosen as the fund administrator for two Guernsey domiciled funds: Tufton Oceanic Assets and CIP Merchant Capital. 

Both firms listed on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) at the end of last year, making them two of three Guernsey domiciled funds to list on the exchange in 2017. 

Innovus Consulting Services, an international consulting company in the fields of cybersecurity and digital transformation, along with Silicon Valley analytic software firm FICO announced today that Innovus has joined the FICO^® Enterprise Security Score partner program. Through the partnership, Innovus Consulting Services will incorporate the FICO^® Enterprise Security Score into its portfolio of solutions and services.

SWIFT’s latest RMB Tracker reveals a mixed year for the Chinese currency’s growth in 2017 and identifies some of the critical factors for success in 2018. 

Despite the growing importance of China in the global economy and the various strategic measures put in place to support its currency, SWIFT’s report shows that RMB usage accounted for 1.61% of domestic and cross-border payments in December 2017.