Coupa Software (NASDAQ:COUP), a leader in cloud-based spend management, announced today that Jabil Inc. (NYSE: JBL) has chosen Coupa’s Procure-to-Pay (P2P) solution for Global Procurement Technology Optimisation across Asia, Europe and the Americas in what is an East-to-West deployment strategy.

15th Annual Retail Banking Forum, due to take place 10th-11th October 2017 in Vienna, Austria. This high-profile gathering of 170+ senior executives annually, combine C-level insights on successful banking strategies and hands-on case studies from leading financial institutions. 

With digital disruption hitting the financial services industry hard, the whole market structure is transforming, and the whole retail banking model is being overhauled. The region's favourite European conference will be addressing precisely these issues. 

TechPreneur Africa, a social impact firm focused on harnessing innovation and entrepreneurship to achieve real economic impact across Africa has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM), an international financial centre in Abu Dhabi, to foster and support the growth and activities of FinTech in the Middle East and African regions.

Data released by Barclaycard today as part of its quarterly Contactless Spending Index shows that ‘touch and go’ payments continue to surge in popularity with spending up by more than a third (34 per cent) since the turn of the year*.

Ovum, the market-leading research and consulting firm, for the first time quantifies the detrimental effect Instant Payments and PSD2 will have on traditional credit and debit card payments. The research “Instant payments and the post-PSD2 landscape”, commissioned by Icon Solutions, publishes the only quantitative insights into how PSD2 will be the catalyst

NTT DATA, a leading consulting and IT services provider, has announced the appointment of Simon Williams to the role of Chief Executive Officer of NTT DATA's UK operations.  He succeeds Steve Mitchener, who retired from the UK business in May 2017. Simon, previously NTT DATA UK's Head of Telco Media, Insurance Consulting and Digital, assumed the role on 7th June 2017. NTT DATA is a leading IT services provider and global innovation partner, with business operations in over 50 countries.

SIX Securities Services has expanded its service offering by launching Advanced Settlement enabling financial institutions to process their settlement instructions directly from the trading system – on a fully automated, STP and real-time basis – via a single interface. The first client, Vontobel, has been using the newly developed, fully integrated service since 16 May 2017.