Berne Union members met in Belgrade for the 2017 Annual General Meeting, reporting a strong first six months of 2017 with more than $1.3 trillion in new commitments...

Global transaction services fintech group Ebury is opening nine new offices in Milan, Amsterdam, Malaga, Zurich, Manchester, Lisbon, Brussels, Toronto and Dubai.

The Exxon Mobil Corporation has announced the acquisition of a strategically positioned crude oil terminal in Wink, Texas, from Houston-headquartered midstream-focused...

Italian power company Ansaldo Energia has signed an agreement with the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) to develop electricity generation using natural gas being...

Financial crime compliance, payments and KYC solutions provider Accuity has launched its Firco Live Services pilot with global banks. It says the solution automates...

With only 7% of US firms automating their accounts payable processes compared with 49% automating their payroll, the disparity between the two boils down to both lack of...

Indian solar firm Azure Power Global Ltd has raised Rs200 crore in debt from the Dutch development bank FMO for use in the development of ongoing projects and its...

Sweden-based Norbloc, a blockchain start-up focused on Know Your Customer (KYC) solutions, has raised $1.6 billion in a seed funding round backed by Greece's Marathon...

Argentina's Ministry of Energy is looking to award 1.2GW of renewable energy capacity as part of round 2 of the Renovar Plan. It has received 117 applications from...

XinFin plans to launch a permissioned blockchain-based trade and finance platform called XDC which, due to its hybrid functionality, will allow fully private sub-networks...

Bank of America Merrill Lynch has launched a new tool, CashPro Assistant, which it says uses artificial intelligence and API technology to help organisations manage and...

Mobiliege, Tramardent and Liegia Express, the three consortia selected for the relaunched $522 million DBFM concession to develop a 12km tramway from the Standard Liege...

SWIFT has expanded its Name Screening service to enable smaller firms and institutions in emerging markets to screen customer databases against sanctions and Politically...

Data is the new oil, delegates at Sibos 2017 heard this week. But rather than simply collecting more data and adding to the current "noise" caused by a surplus,...

The Enterprise Ethereum Alliance has added 48 new members, including Hewlett Packard Enterprise. The EEA formally launched in February with the backing of major firms...

Banks should be careful not to rush ahead of themselves with real-time and instant payments infrastructure projects, ANZ's general manager of wholesale digital...

Russia's Vnesheconombank (VEB) has provided a $10 million facility to the Development Bank of Mongolia for a project to supply Russian manufactured agricultural...

Royal Caribbean Cruises entered into financing agreements for the first and second Project Icon ships for Royal Caribbean International. The agreements were guaranteed by...

The International Finance Corporation has issued a five-year green bond that raised $1 billion for green investments in emerging markets. The issuance, which was 2.6...

ET Solar Industry Limited is talking to China CITIC Bank Corporation Limited for the latter to provide some funding for its 80MW of Malaysian solar projects that are...