Cards & Payments
Worldpay, Sage partner to provide fast payments to businesses across UK and Ireland
Worldpay, a leading global payments technology provider, and Sage Pay, part of Sage Group, a market leader in cloud business management solutions, have announced a partnership that broadens the range of card payment solutions available to businesses.
This partnership will...
Asia Pacific
HP And PayPal Team Up for New POS Offering
In a move to target small and medium-sized businesses and hospitality companies, HP has announced it has teamed up with PayPal to release what it calls an “all-in-one” point of sale (POS) unit, with PayPal handling the payment processing...
Insurance
Aon unveils strategic alliance with AI powered insurtech Zestyai to revolutionise underwriting
Aon unveils strategic alliance with AI-powered insurtech Zesty.ai to 'revolutionise' underwriting
Re/insurance broker Aon has formed a strategic alliance with US-based artificial intelligence (AI) startup Zesty.ai to improve its underwriting data insights.
The partnership will enable insurers using Aon's distribution network...
Asset Management
Santander to adopt BlackRock Aladdin platform
Santander Asset Management (SAM) has reached an agreement with BlackRock to adopt the Aladdin platform to accelerate the asset manager’s technological transformation.
Digital transformation has been a cornerstone of the strategy throughout the Santander Group since 2015. Since then, the...
Banking
NatWest pilots biometric payment card
UK bank NatWest is piloting in-card biometric technology that lets customers verify point-of-sale transactions with their fingerprints.
The bank is working with Gemalto, Visa and Mastercard on the upcoming small-scale trial involving 200 customers.
Instead of entering their PINs for transactions...
Banking
Ant Financial launches Distributed Core Banking Platform with Hoperun information technology
Ant Financial Services Group and Jiangsu-based Hoperun Information Technology (Hoperun) unveiled its Distributed Core Banking Platform (DCBP), a next generation banking product which is designed to help financial institutions shift their business models from transaction-oriented to customer-oriented.
The platform also...
Insurance
Gallagher acquires Connecticut-based broker Merit Insurance
Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. (Gallagher) has acquired Merit Insurance, a Connecticut-based retail property/casualty broker and employee benefits consultant, for an undisclosed price.
Merit Insurance, which was established in 1950, provides a variety of coverage and services to clients located...
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