PrePay Solutions (PPS), Europe’s leading prepaid and digital banking services provider, and Monese, provider of instant bank accounts, have successfully completed a European tour to promote the launch of the challenger bank’s new Eurozone account.

National Settlement Depository (NSD) has operated emission and initial placement of the first blockchain-based commercial bonds on the Russian market.

NSD has joined forces with two majors to bring to life a decentralized ledger solution that will allow trading, placement and record keeping for bonds to be simple and transparent. Raiffeisenbank Russia became a blockchain bond issue pioneer, starting the initial placement and subsequently purchasing $10M worth of papers of MegaFon, one of the largest mobile network operators in CIS.

Asian payments specialist PaySec has announced global payment expert Koen Vanpraet as its new CEO as it embarks upon significant global expansion.

Digital technology has changed financial services and is being driven by new entrants that possess characteristics that are increasingly important to consumers and shareholders:  the ability to be lean and agile, provide a best-in-class user experience, as well as grow and scale rapidly. 

Ecobank has partnered with Visa to launch Ecobank Scan+Pay with mVisa solutions to their consumers.

Ancala Partners (‘Ancala’), the independent mid-market infrastructure investment manager, has strengthened its infrastructure asset management and investment teams with two new appointments.

SteelEye, the compliance technology and data analytics firm, is pleased to announce the launch of its innovative data platform following a successful early adoption program. The SteelEye product has been designed to help financial firms meet their obligations under MiFID II for Record Keeping, Trade Reconstruction, Best Execution and Transaction Reporting in one platform. SteelEye also helps firms extract valuable insights from their data, as well as helping them cope with GDPR and other key regulations.

FICO is releasing new payment card fraud detection models focused on making card-not-present (CNP) transactions more convenient and secure.

Today, Oracle announced momentum for its open banking initiative, which includes a comprehensive set of PaaS capabilities as well as an open API framework enabling banks and fintechs to collaborate on a common cloud platform.