The World Digital Economic Expo, which was supposed to be held at the SMX Convention Center in SM Mall of Asia on the month of August, was formally moved to June 8-9 2020 and will be renamed as Manila AI and Blockchain Summit to be co-organized by SIGMA and Vibe PH. It was meant for individuals and companies from various industries such as e-commerce, AI and IOT, fintech and blockchain to come together in this extraordinary event.

British contemporary fashion brand Superdry and leading payments provider Klarna have today announced a perfect-fit partnership, enabled by Adyen. Superdry customers are now able to Pay later or Pay in 3 in the UK, and later this month will be able to Pay in 4 in the US, making everything from jackets to jeans more accessible to Superdry customers globally.

SWIFT today announces the results of a global trial to integrate SWIFT gpi Instant, the co-operative’s cross-border instant payments service, into Singapore’s domestic instant payment service,Fast And Secure Transfers (FAST).

Cyber security provider F-Secure has released a free new online tool that helps expose the true cost of using some of the web’s most popular free services—the abundance of data that has been collected about them by Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon Alexa, Twitter and Snapchat. F-Secure Data Discovery Portal sends users directly to the often hard-to-locate resources provided by each of these tech giants that allow users to review their data, securely and privately.

Refinitiv today announced a strategic partnership agreement with Appway, provider of leading client onboarding solutions, to fully integrate their suite of onboarding capabilities on the Refinitiv BETA Platform, a complete suite of brokerage capabilities used by many leading US wealth management and brokerage firms.

AutoRek are thrilled to announce we will present the new version of VanguARd, our automated cash allocation tool, at the Cforia European User Group on 18 July. The event takes place at the Brewery on Chiswell Street, Central London and all interested AutoRek users are invited to attend.

Open Banking Expo has launched its first European event in Amsterdam, in collaboration with Token, which will address the opportunities and risks that Open Banking presents as the financial services sector prepares to roll out the PSD2 directive.

With PSD2 due to go live on 14 September, this event will take place on 4 October 2019, and will bring together a C-level audience from the financial services sector, providing them with an unrivalled forum for ideas, connections and deals in Open Banking.

The Datacenter Group (TDCG) from the Netherlands has acquired the data center infrastructure of NovoServe in Doetinchem and Enschede, in the eastern part of the Netherlands. By selling its two data centers, NovoServe is able to apply focus to their international IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service) hosting activities, whilst TDCG expands its regional coverage. This acquisition therefore benefits the growth strategy of both companies. Through focus on core activities both businesses are able to realize their ambitions for growth.
 

Travellers now choose to pay for digital travel with alternative methods more often than cards and cash combined, accounting for 51% of global travel e-Commerce spend. The way people shop and pay for travel is changing according to ‘The Travel Payments Guide’, a new report from ppro and Amadeus, charting the rise of alternative payment methods. The two companies have partnered to enable travel companies to accept high-growth alternative, local payments.