Finastra has once again topped the Overall Trading Systems category in the Asia Risk Technology Rankings 2018. The accolade recognizes the company’s expertise in the treasury, capital markets and risk space and its commitment to helping its clients achieve more as they simplify and innovate with their trading solutions.

Auriga, a leading supplier of technological solutions for the omnichannel banking and payments industries, and one of Europe’s original FinTech success stories, today applauded its customer Millennium BCP, the Portuguese international bank, for winning the Best ATM/Self-Service Experience award at this year’s 2018 Bank Customer Experience (BCX) Summit in Chicago, USA.

Omnia, the world’s first AI-built and compliance-led online casino, has integrated leading payments provider Trustly’s new ‘Pay N Play’ technology to instantly recognise verified customers, allowing them to deposit and play in seconds, and withdraw funds in less than five minutes.

Omnia is one of only a handful of casino brands to use the innovative payments method in this way, enabling pre-KYC checked Swedish customers to instantly deposit and enjoy Omnia’s casino content using a unique individual bank ID.

The Nordic IT services and software company Tieto has entered into a strategic partnership with unified workspace, networking, and analytics provider Citrix to provide new generation hybrid cloud services. With Citrix, Tieto meets current and future digitalization requirements of public and private sector organizations by responding to market demand for simpler and more flexible ICT environments. In the first stage, covering the Tieto Energized Workspace service, over 200 Nordic customers and 250,000 end users will benefit from the new services.

VSoft Corporation, a global provider of information and technology solutions for financial institutions, announced a strategic alliance with Intuit Inc. (Nasdaq: INTU) to enable its digital banking clients to simplify and streamline the way their account holders manage their finances.

Australian Securities Exchange and Frankfurt Stock Exchange cross listed iSignthis Ltd (ASX : ISX | FRA : TA8), the leading payment and identity technology company (the “Company”), is pleased to announce that it has completed acquisition of 100% of the issued capital of Cyprus based, Probanx Information Systems Ltd (‘Probanx”).

For the last 15 years this summit has created a platform that goes beyond simple regulatory description and delves into the strategic and business implications of financial reporting and accounting developments in the banking industry. This event brings together experts from regulatory bodies and major European and global financial institutions to discuss how to effectively tackle, interpret and apply IFRS rules.

Fidor Solutions, an innovative provider of digital banking services, today signed an agreement with AFIN to create ASEAN’s first API Exchange (APIX) platform as Fintech Marketplace and Sandbox - together in a consortium formed with Virtusa and Percipient. This ambitious project will see a trusted and transparent API-based marketplace and sandbox environment made available to both FinTechs and banks with the objective to fuel innovation, increase collaboration and ultimately engender greater financial inclusion across the ASEAN region.

Asia-Pacific (APAC) is leading the world in the adoption of digital banking due to consumers’ constantly evolving demands, combined with the unbanked potential and benign regulation. Non-traditional challengers such as Ant Financial and Tencent are shaking up the market. Temenos argues that in the battle between banks and fintech giants, banks that embrace digital transformation will emerge as champions.

NYMBUS, the world’s most advanced revenue and technology solutions company, today announced TransPecos Banks has selected NYMBUS SmartLaunch to outsource the operation of its new digital bank brand, BankMD. Already serving its established banking customers throughout three regional locations in West Texas, SmartLaunch supports TransPecos Banks’ latest business transformation strategy to stand up a separate digital brand for expanding its digital reach and engaging loyal new consumers and revenue opportunities.