Once again, the UEFA European Championship is just a round the corner, and Europe will spend four weeks going football crazy as each team  takes  its turn on the international pitch. A UEFA European Championship, of course, means an entire month of nothing  but football - with fixed schedules featuring up to three games a day. All this naturally makes every  football  fan's heart  beat faster, and we at PPRO can hardly wait until the first kickoff - at 9pm on the 10th of June in Paris's St. Denis stadium.

The UK’s completely free credit scoring service, ClearScore, today launches ‘Timeline’, a unique new tool giving people a ‘big picture’ view of their money.

Timeline charts the relationship between different aspects of a person’s finances, letting people see how and why their credit score has changed over time. 

The International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. (ISDA) has today appointed two senior executives from a central counterparty (CCP) and a futures commission merchant (FCM) to its Board of Directors.

The Wirecard Group and MyOrder B.V. (a Rabobank Company) cooperate to create new FinTech solutions. Wirecard and MyOrder now enabled GRPPY (Grouppay, www.grppy.com) to create a shared wallet. GRPPY is Rabobank latest startup and is using the platform of MyOrder, for which Wirecard already provides the complete wallet infrastructure as a technical service provider.

BNP Paribas is to run a second International Hackathon from 17 to 19 June. More countries will be involved this year – eight, up from five for the 2015 event. The theme of the 2016 Hackathon is: ‘Streamlining the Customer Journey through co-creation with start-ups.’ 

Today, people are more connected than ever before. From homes and appliances, to cars and accessories, the internet of things (IoT) has the potential to bring banking to every corner of people's lives.

Comprised of physical devices that can collect and exchange data, the internet of things includes everything from smart appliances to connected cars, and the number of these devices is growing exponentially.

Bank of America Merrill Lynch today announced the launch of a new electronic platform, Instinct® Loans, for the secondary trading of syndicated corporate loans.

Infosys Finacle, part of EdgeVerve Systems, a wholly owned subsidiary of Infosys (NYSE: INFY) and Paytm, India’s largest mobile payments and commerce platform, today announced that the Finacle Core Banking solution has been selected to power Paytm’s new payments bank business.