ACH Alert, an award-winning provider of electronic payments fraud prevention technology for financial institutions of all sizes, announced the addition of George Leto as Channel Sales Manager to support increased sales within its existing channel partner division, which has seen significant growth due to rising demand for its payments fraud solutions.

Aiven has completed an €8 million Series A funding round to enhance its leading cloud data platform with more integrated solutions and to accelerate international growth.

"We see a tremendous number of companies around the world now implementing their new real-time data platforms in the cloud. The new funding will allow us to better cater to their requirements,” states Oskari Saarenmaa, co-founder and CEO at Aiven.

The European P2P platform Robo.cash has analyzed the average investment made within the first months of investing. The results show that the average investment increases by 30% after the first month of investing on the platform and by another 10% - after the second one.

 Mastercard (NYSE: MA) today announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire Transactis, a platform that helps businesses deliver bills and receive payments through one simple-to-navigate experience.

Digital transformation is a natural progression from traditional business, one better suited to today’s world. The analytic difference is the playfield for innovation, ascendable and agility that are possible in the transformation process, now that digital is a part of the mix. Digital transformation has the ability to deal with uncertainty and respond quickly to change, rather than setting long term goals and moving steadily towards them. Digital transformation is not a close-ended program, once it has begun, it opens up endless effective evolution.

JDX, the global financial services firm, announced today that it has hired senior financial services executive Lucy Dorr to spearhead its global consulting business. Lucy has 20+ years of leadership experience in the global markets and is a proven leader in business process, and technical design and execution.

SETL Ltd, the London-based institutional payment and settlement infrastructure provider using blockchain technology, today announced the completion of its corporate restructuring programme.

At the beginning of March this year, the previous entity, SETL Development Ltd (in administration), announced that it had appointed Quantuma LLP as its administrators.  

Most people have a full-time job, a family and a fairly full schedule of extracurriculars and they simply do not have the time to go to a bank within the standard work week. Futurum author Daniel Newman says, “I can’t remember the last time I’ve been to a bank. Come to think of it, I can’t remember the last time I’ve mailed a bill payment, either.”[1]

Couchbase today announced the latest version of Couchbase Mobile, the industry’s first embedded NoSQL database. Couchbase Mobile 2.5 enables developers to create mobile applications and manage data with secure embedded local device storage, advanced sync capabilities, and Machine Learning (ML) queries.  

Jumio today announced a new multi-year agreement with Monzo, further strengthening a long-standing partnership of hypergrowth between the leading AI-powered trusted identity as a service provider and one of the UK’s top digital banks.