Huobi Global, the world's leading digital asset exchange, today released a native mobile app for the Russian market. Available for iOS and Android, Russian users can now access Huobi’s spot market and trade hundreds of digital assets and cryptocurrencies via a simple and intuitive mobile app.

Nuvei partnered with Banking Circle in 2016 to ensure settlement and pay outs occur quickly and incur lower costs, whilst being more transparent and trackable. Today, Nuvei uses Banking Circle settlement and operational accounts as well as Banking Circle's Real-time FX platform.

Jumio, the leading provider of AI-powered end-to-end identity verification and eKYC solutions, has been recognized for the third consecutive year as a Representative Vendor in the latest Gartner “Market Guide for Identity Proofing and Attribution,”¹ published on September 11, 2020.

Today, financial institutions deal with increasingly complex transactions and regulations that are continually changing. For the financial services industry, the cost of regulatory obligations has dramatically increased in recent years and, as a result, there has been a strong demand for more efficient reporting and compliance systems to better control risks and reduce compliance costs.

Temenos (SIX: TEMN), the banking software company, is delighted to announce the winners of the ‘Best in Banking’ Awards for North America. These awards celebrate the people, processes and technology that spark growth in the North American financial services industry. This year, Temenos clients used front office, core banking, and cloud technology to meet the challenges of COVID-19 head on, promote innovation, and continue to strive for growth.

Alibaba Cloud, the digital technology and intelligence backbone of Alibaba Group, has seen the demand for its database family of products double year-over-year. The increase was fueled by industries’ growing needs to move their operation online given the lasting impacts of COVID-19. Alibaba Cloud is the third largest cloud computing company in the world, and its database technologies currently serve more than 100,000 companies globally.

In an official statement, Crown Agents Bank Ltd. announced its collaboration with VODACASH SA in the innovating project of enabling international mobile payments in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) through the well-known M-Pesa brand.

Since the start of the pandemic, businesses around the world have drastically changed their operations to protect employees and customers. One significant shift has been the discouragement of the use of cash in favour of digital and contactless payment methods. On the surface, moving away from cash seems like the safe, obvious thing to do to curb the spread of the virus. But, the idea of being propelled towards an innovative, digital-first, cashless society is also compelling.

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