Williams Lea Tag appoints Toby Codrington as new CEO APAC and CMO

• 8 years 8 months ago
• People Moves

- Williams Lea Tag, the leading provider of marketing and communications services, today announced that Toby Codrington, previously client officer APAC has been selected as Williams Lea Tag's new chief executive officer, APAC and chief marketing officer. Toby will assume his new role on 7 August 2017 based in Singapore. "I am privileged to have been selected as the new chief executive officer, APAC. I am looking forward to the journey ahead and...

PayPal to Acquire Swift Financial

• 8 years 8 months ago
• M&A Deals

PayPal agrees to acquire Swift Financial, a leading provider of working capital solutions to small businesses in the US Darrell Esch VP, General Manager, SMB Lending of PayPal said: 

Equifax Acquires ID Watchdog, a Leading Identity Protection and Resolution Services Company

• 8 years 8 months ago
• Infrastructure

Story Lab And Influential CollaborateTo Bring A.I. And Data Approach To Branded Content

• 8 years 8 months ago
• Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Coco Framework embeds blockchain in the enterprise

• 8 years 8 months ago
• Blockchain

Microsoft Corp. on Thursday announced the Coco Framework, a first-of-its-kind innovation that will advance enterprise adoption of blockchain technology. 

GoCardless and Sage Partner to Open up Access to Direct Debit

• 8 years 8 months ago
• Payments

Today, the UK’s top Direct Debit provider, GoCardless, and Sage, the market leader for integrated accounting, payroll and payment systems, have announced a partnership to create a closer link between accountancy software and payments to support small and medium businesses.

Silicon Valley Bank and First Data name accelerator participants

• 8 years 8 months ago
• Banking

Silicon Valley Bank, the bank of the world's most innovative companies and their investors, and First Data (NYSE: FDC), a global leader in commerce-enabling technology, have selected four startups to participate in Class 6 of Commerce.Innovated., an accelerator designed to help commerce, payments, and fintech companies grow their businesses.  The four-month virtual program provides participants with operational mentorship from Silicon Valley...

TSYS JV CPay to Reveal CardFlight Mobile POS

• 8 years 8 months ago
• Payments

CardFlight, a mobile point of sale (POS) technology provider and Central Payment (CPAY), a merchant service provider that offers payment, loyalty and marketing services to businesses, announced today that CPAY is offering CardFlight's SwipeSimple mobile POS solution, enabling merchants to accept EMV chip card payments on the go from their mobile devices. 

Cyberport Teams Up with Hong Kong University

• 8 years 8 months ago
• Infrastructure

A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signing ceremony between the University of Hong Kong (HKU) and Hong Kong Cyberport (Cyberport) was held today to set up the HKU x Cyberport Digital Tech Entrepreneurship Platform (Platform). The Platform is the first-of-its-kind collaboration between HKU and Cyberport aiming to form a closer partnership to build a unique digital tech ecosystem for Hong Kong spanning the aspects of human capital, innovation and...

Nordea Joins Basware for Dynamic Discounting

• 8 years 8 months ago
• Payments

Nordea will partner with Finnish company Basware, a global leader in networked purchase-to-pay solutions, to provide a dynamic discounting solution to customers across the Nordics.

EBANX Celebrates 4 Years Processing for AliExpress in Brazil

• 8 years 8 months ago
• Payments

August 15th 2017 is a very special day for EBANX: 4 years ago, on August 15th 2013, EBANX started processing payments in Brazil for AliExpress, the Chinese retail giant. Since then, they have been converting themselves into the international e-commerce that sells the most in the Latin American country.

Coupa Hires Chandar Pattabhiram as Chief Marketing Officer

• 8 years 8 months ago
• Cloud

Coupa Software, a leader in cloud-based spend management, announced today that storyteller, digital marketing executive, and veteran software industry marketer Chandar Pattabhiram has joined the company as its chief marketing officer (CMO).

Thomson Reuters signs three more buy-side clients for KYC platform

• 8 years 8 months ago
• Investment Management

Thomson Reuters today confirmed that three additional European financial institutions serving the buy-side investment sector have adopted its Org ID Know Your Customer (KYC) platform for due diligence. 

Edgewater Ranzal and Thavron Solutions Create New Alliance

• 8 years 8 months ago
• RegTech, Bitcoins, FinTech StartUps, IT Innovations

 Edgewater Technology-Ranzal, LLC, (Edgewater Ranzal), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Edgewater Technology Inc.

AWS Direct Connect availability to seventeen metros globally with Equinix

• 8 years 8 months ago
• Cloud

 Equinix (Nasdaq: EQIX), the global interconnection and data center company, today announced the that it has established connectivity into Amazon Web Services (AWS) Direct Connect service in the New York region, enabling all Equinix customers in the New York metro the ability to access AWS Direct Connect at all available speeds via Equinix Cloud ExchangeTM or Equinix-provided metro connectivity options. The addition of New York brings the total...