Avaya announced today its communications technologies have helped O-Bank (Wangdao) become Taiwan’s first, all-digital, online-only bank. Supported by Avaya multi-channel Customer Engagement technologies - including Avaya Breeze - O-Bank now solely serves customers located anywhere via mobile, video, voice and other online banking channels.

As a digital bank, O-Bank can expand both the hours of customer service and its geographic reach. Customers conduct transactions with the bank using mobile apps or Web access.

Leading cyber-security software specialist ZoneFox has today announced the release of its fully hosted platform. Utilising the exact same roster of intelligent technology designed to help companies protect their data, hunt threats, and remain compliant, ZoneFox can reside remotely in the highly secure ZoneFox cloud. ZoneFox’s platform is the most secure, fast, and cost-effective route for clients to access the award-winning technology, and is available within minutes of the endpoint agents being deployed.

Exscudo, the financial ecosystem which unites cryptocurrency markets and traditional finance is happy to announce the beginning of the bug bounty program. Bug bounty officially started on October, 9. A few weeks earlier the project also launched the EON blockchain public testing (testnet).

Exscudo is developing a number of sophisticated products, including a trading platform, a mobile wallet, a decentralized messenger and a b2b merchant. Therefore, the bug bounty campaign will have several stages, starting with the EON blockchain & node testing.

KICKICO, the blockchain startup revolutionizing the crowdfunding industry, announces the trade of KICK Tokens on EXMO, one of Russia’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges where KICK will be the first Ethereum-based token to trade.

•     This Golden Week, Alipay users conducted eight times as many in-store transactions overseas as they did last year.

•     Asia dominated the list of top-ten destinations in terms of transaction volume.

o     Hong Kong topped the list, followed by Thailand, Taiwan, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Macau, Malaysia, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand.

•     Asia also saw much of the fastest growth in Alipay use from last year. 

Chef, the leader in Continuous Automation, today announced availability of Habitat Builder, a SaaS-based service that provides the fastest way to package apps simply and consistently for deployment and management across flexible cloud-native architectures such as those comprising Docker Swarm, Kubernetes and Cloud Foundry, both on-premises and in-cloud. Habitat Builder gives developers and operations teams complete control over the containerised application lifecycle.

MuleSoft (NYSE: MULE), the leading platform for building application networks, today announced that financial services startup Tic:Toc has selected MuleSoft's Anypoint Platform™ to power it’s real-time home loan approval system.

SunTec, whose technology powers the financial services and is delivered to over 300 million consumers worldwide, today announced the successful validation, verification and deployment of the Xelerate on Demand Service (XoDS) on Microsoft Azure. The verification process began in March 2017 and completed in July 2017.