The Central Bank of Iceland has chosen SIA - European hitech company, leader in payment infrastructures and services - to implement and support the new realtime gross settlement system and the new instant payment platform. 

MFS Africa, a leading Pan-African fintech company, today announces that Michael Joseph has joined its Board of Directors as an independent Non-Executive Director. Michael served as CEO of Safaricom in Kenya from 2000 to 2010, and is widely credited with spearheading M-Pesa, the world’s most successful mobile money service.

BioCatch, the global leader in behavioral biometrics, announced today that it has teamed up with Experian, the leading global information services company, to integrate its behavioral biometric technology into the company's fraud and identity platform, CrossCore™, to help prevent new account fraud for its users.

Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE: ICE), a leading operator of global exchanges and clearing houses and provider of data and listings services, has announced the launch of ICE Data Services’ new reference data solution for ICE’s futures exchanges.

Global B2B payment solutions provider and virtual card specialist Optal is delighted to announce it has been placed seventh on the inaugural FT1000 list of Europe’s 1,000 fastest growing companies. Compiled by the Financial Times and market analyst Statista, the list is the result of many months of research, during which more than a million outstanding European enterprises were appraised.

BinckBank introduces the automated discretionary management service Binck Forward.

For those organisations that still see Artificial Intelligence (AI) as an emerging technology that they probably don’t have to start thinking about yet, customer contact technology specialist Sabio has a wake-up call: AI is here already and busy powering many of the best practice customer journeys. 

 Remitly, the largest independent digital remittance company in the United States, has announced its expansion into the United Kingdom, its third send country after the United States and Canada.

Regulatory sandboxes are gaining popularity as a framework for promoting financial innovation by creating a “safe space” for testing new business ideas within an existing regulatory regime. New entrants to heavily regulated industries typically lack certainty about whether their new ideas or business models fully comply with existing regulations. New entrants consequently tend to incur more costs and take longer to succeed in tightly regulated industries than in lightly regulated ones.

Today the European Banking Authority revealed a Report on the Peer Review carried out on its ITS on supervisory reporting aimed at assessing how supervisory authorities have ensured its consistent and comprehensive implementation.