The fight against COVID-19 is at a crucial tipping point, so the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Hackster.io, an Avnet company and the largest online open-source technology hardware community, are taking action. The two organizations have partnered to launch the COVID-19 Detect and Protect Challenge to create open-source technology that developing countries can leverage in the fight against this global pandemic.

Pegasystems Inc. (NASDAQ: PEGA), the software company empowering digital transformation at the world’s leading enterprises, today announced the launch of a Crisis Small Business Lending reference application which helps financial institutions manage the thousands of emergency loan applications pouring

Objectway is a leading software provider of wealth management digital solutions with customers distributed across four continents.

Being headquartered in Italy, we were early to deal with the COVID-19 emergency in the EMEA region. The rapid escalation of COVID-19 outbreak has forced us to test our business continuity plans, in Italy first and soon after that in our UK and Belgium operations.

Cassini Systems, the leading provider of pre- and post-trade margin analytics for derivatives market participants, announced today a new initial margin (IM) partnership with AcadiaSoft Inc., the leading industry provider of risk and collateral management services for the non-cleared derivatives community.

VALK is pleased to announce a partnership with Koine, who provides a post-trade solution for digital assets and fiat that integrates with the blockchain software R3’s Corda technology to provide custody and settlement services on the VALK platform.

Today, LexisNexis® Risk Solutions released its True Cost of Financial Crime Compliance Global Report, which provides global industry-driven insights for financial services firms across the Asia Pacific (APAC) region, Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), Latin America (LATAM) (including Mexico) and the U.S. and Canada. The report reveals that the projected total cost of financial crime compliance in these markets amounts to $180.9 billion.

IDnow, a leading provider of Identity Verification-as-a-Service solutions with more than 250 customers, publishes statistics on the changed customer habits since Europe has experienced restrictions on everyday life due to the coronavirus (COVID-19).

As part of the Corona Pandemic, many service providers have experienced significant changes in customer demand and behaviour. As a provider of an Identity Verification-as-a-Service platform, IDnow has too seen these changes.

OpenWay, a global vendor of digital payment software, partnered with technology analyst house Ovum (now Omdia) to conduct the 2020 Digital Payments in Africa survey. Key retail banks and merchants in East, West and Southern Africa took part to provide a glimpse into the retail payment landscape of Sub-Saharan African region. 

GMO GlobalSign www.globalsign.com, a global Certificate Authority (CA) and leading provider of identity and security solutions for the Internet of Things (IoT), today announced steps to help companies conduct business securely while working remotely during the Coronavirus pandemic.

 The Emerging Payments Association (EPA), which celebrates collaboration and innovation within new and existing payments companies, has today published new guidance on digital identification and authentication to help combat financial crime.