FIA announced the appointment of seven new members to its Asia Advisory Board:

EastNets, a leading global provider of compliance, payments and cloud solutions for the financial services industry, has unveiled the new features of its leading Anti-Money Laundering Solution, en.SafeWatch Profiling, demonstrating anew its commitment to constantly enhance its solutions to help organizations better comply with regulations, mitigate risks, and increase their capabilities to effectively foil money laundering activities.

NFU Mutual and Genpact announced a long-term partnership to deliver enhanced NFU Mutual advised and direct-to-consumer offerings, powered by Genpact’s OpenWealth business process as a service (BPaaS) solution.

Orange and Groupama have signed an agreement that aims to enable the development of an innovative, 100% mobile banking service. This agreement concludes the exclusive discussions that have been ongoing between the two Groups since January and paves the way for the acquisition by Orange of a 65% stake in Groupama Banque. Groupama will retain the remaining 35%.

VocaLink announced today that it has been selected as the recipient of the 2016 George Mitchell Payments System Excellence Award. The award is given annually by NACHA—The Electronic Payments Association®.

The award is named after former vice-chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, George Mitchell, an early proponent of electronic payments. It honors an individual or organization that has shown superior leadership in the development, implementation or advancement of domestic or international electronic payments.