Mastercard announced it will bring its Spanish customers and cardholders Apple Pay, which is transforming mobile payments as an easy, secure and private way to pay that’s fast and convenient.

Mastercard is working with several partners in Spain, including Banco Santander as the first bank, Carrefour as the first retailer and Ticket Restaurant as the first prepaid company to join this launch offering consumers the ability to use their Mastercard cards with Apple Pay.

 FIS™, a global leader in financial technology, announced a significant new core banking technology innovation targeted for financial institutions. The FIS Customer Experience Suite transforms a bank’s customer-generated data by quantifying the value of each customer’s relationship. It then applies dynamic pricing and product bundling, and uses the bank’s own customer behavior data to predict needs and deliver targeted offers.

LexisNexis® Risk Solutions, a global big data, technology and analytics company, is today pleased to announce the retention of the Best Financial Crime Intelligence and Research Data award at the acclaimed Compliance Register Platinum Awards 2016. 

Details are still a little fuzzy surrounding the Europol breach – par for the course with such a sensitive leak of information – but the one constant in all of the stories seems to be the use of an external device. This is extremely worrying for Interpol and any affiliated counter-terrorism organisations. 

The fact that such highly classified materials were freely available to be moved onto an external device and taken outside the immediate network should be of major concern, regardless of whether this should have been done or not by the individual employee. 

Technology holds the potential for unprecedented disruption, not only shaking up the collaborative economy but also of giving decision-makers back their trust in company data.

Ingenico ePayments, the online and mobile division of Ingenico Group, today reported that it processed 29% more payments during this year’s Black Friday weekend compared to the same weekend in 2015. Over the course of the weekend, starting on Thanksgiving Day (24th November) in the US and finishing on Cyber Monday (28th November), Ingenico ePayments twice broke its record for most payments processed in a single day. 

Raiffeisen Bank Group, Austria's largest financial institution, is enhancing the consumer experience with 1,200 new Diebold Nixdorf automated teller machines (ATMs) equipped with advanced bill payment and contactless functionalities such as quick response (QR) codes and near field communication (NFC) readers.

From today, customers of Veneto Banca and its subsidiary Banca Apulia have at their disposal a new “Person to Person” (P2P) payments service that is secure, simple and extremely fast - “Jiffy” - a word which refers to the unit of measurement corresponding to the time it takes for light to travel one centimeter.

 Československá obchodní banka (ČSOB), a leading Czech bank, has chosen Wolters Kluwer’s OneSumX software to support its Treasury department.