On the occasion of its third public event in Brussels, the Swiss Finance Council (SFC) presents its new Discussion Paper entitled ‘The EU and its Partners: Banks and Investors in a Digital World’.

Chubb today announced two new senior management positions in the UK and Ireland, as the company evolves its structure to serve the future insurance and risk management needs of brokers and clients in the region.

Sara Mitchell, Vice President, Speciality Personal Lines, Europe, Eurasia & Africa and Asia Pacific, will serve as the Head of Corporate Division for UK and Ireland. In this newly created role, Sara will be responsible for Chubb's middle market segment strategy, with additional responsibility for sales and distribution, underwriting centres and product development.

Ixaris Technologies will open its Open Payments Cloud platform to developers at a hackathon hosted by Rainmaking Innovation in London between 7 and 9 April.

SIX and easybank announce that SIX will sell itsCommercial Issuing business (the Issuing of credit and prepaid cards) in Austria together with the Issuing Support for Austrian banks to easybank.

Torstone Technology is the leader in post-trade securities and derivatives processing. Today it has announced plans to further expand its services in Asia, supported by senior appointments in Japan, and the signing of a multi-year deal with another new client, Natixis Japan Securities Co. Ltd, to use Torstone’s collateral management module.

Wirecard is launching boon with Apple Pay in Ireland, the easy, secure and private way to pay that’s fast and convenient.

ANZ today launched a new digital tool to help Australian businesses plan for international expansion with a one-stop-shop that provides data-driven insights to support export plans.

The South African fintech startup that slashed the costs for Zimbabweans living in SA to send money home when it launched two years ago has expanded its money transfer service into Nigeria, Ghana and Tanzania.

InvestCloud Inc., a global FinTech firm, has scooped two awards for its client communications (client portal) and CRM systems at the Family Wealth Report awards.

Pegasystems Inc., the software company empowering customer engagement at the world's leading enterprises, today announced new artificial intelligence (AI) and robotic automation capabilities in its customer relationship management (CRM) offerings that enable businesses to optimise their sales and customer service effectiveness with desktop analytics and machine learning.