The new service enables global eCommerce on the African continent and allows M-PESA users in Kenya to shop with PayPal merchants globally, and local Kenyan online businesses and freelancers to safely and securely sell globally and easily transfer funds between their PayPal and M-PESA accounts NAIROBI, Kenya-Monday, April 9th 2018 [ AETOS Wire ] (BUSINESS WIRE) -- PayPal and Safaricom announced a revolutionary collaboration that enables Kenyans to seamlessly move money between their M-PESA and PayPal accounts. The new service eliminates significant barriers that have hindered consumers and businesses in the country from taking full advantage of global eCommerce. “PayPal’s collaboration with M-PESA is part of the company’s long-term strategy to enable eCommerce and democratize financial services on the African continent,” says Efi Dahan, General Manager for the Middle East, Africa and Russia, PayPal. “We are excited to bring the M-PESA mobile wallet and PayPal joint services to the ... Read more »

The new service enables global eCommerce on the African continent and allows M-PESA users in Kenya to shop with PayPal merchants globally, and local Kenyan online businesses and freelancers to safely and securely sell globally and easily transfer funds between their PayPal and M-PESA accounts NAIROBI, Kenya-Monday, April 9th 2018 [ AETOS Wire ] (BUSINESS WIRE) -- PayPal and Safaricom announced a revolutionary collaboration that enables Kenyans to seamlessly move money between their M-PESA and PayPal accounts. The new service eliminates significant barriers that have hindered consumers and businesses in the country from taking full advantage of global eCommerce. “PayPal’s collaboration with M-PESA is part of the company’s long-term strategy to enable eCommerce and democratize financial services on the African continent,” says Efi Dahan, General Manager for the Middle East, Africa and Russia, PayPal. “We are excited to bring the M-PESA mobile wallet and PayPal joint services to the ... Read more »

Robust alternative to GRE or VPN tunnels provides a more secure connection for transferring data LONDON -Thursday, April 12th 2018 [ AETOS Wire ] (BUSINESS WIRE)-- Neustar®, Inc., a trusted, neutral provider of real-time information services, today announced the release of Neustar NetProtect™, a direct connect Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) defense solution that is currently available in 61 data centres located across ten countries. In complement to Neustar SiteProtect NG®, a DDoS mitigation solution that protects against web application attacks, the NetProtect network is strategically situated directly inside data centres in order to address and mitigate or entirely avoid the concerns of latency, complexity and other anomalies which are commonly associated with legacy Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) and Virtual Private Network (VPN) tunnel systems. Created specifically for demanding and advanced network requirements that require support beyond basic proxy or VPN servic ... Read more »

New Agreement brings Esri’s excellence in GIS to Alibaba Cloud’s world-class Cloud Computing Capabilities REDLANDS, Calif.-Thursday, April 12th 2018 [ AETOS Wire ] (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Esri, the global leader in spatial analytics, today announced that it has entered into a collaborative agreement with Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing arm of the Alibaba Group. The agreement will enable both organizations to deliver enhanced options to customers seeking to implement their Esri technology on Alibaba Cloud. Esri President and Founder, Jack Dangermond, described the agreement as both a recognition of successful implementations and a shared belief that location intelligence in cloud infrastructure was pivotal to addressing customers’ needs and solving real-world problems – especially those that need scalable computing, storage, and networking capabilities. “We’ve seen our users achieve amazing results already with Esri technology in Alibaba Cloud,” said Dangermond. “This has been poss ... Read more »

Service fills an important gap in the MiFID II / MiFIR regulatory framework allowing trading counterparties to identify who is responsible for reporting a trade LONDON-Thursday, April 12th 2018 [ AETOS Wire ] (BUSINESS WIRE) -- The SmartStream Reference Data Utility (RDU) in collaboration with a group of Approved Publication Arrangements (APAs), including Bloomberg, Deutsche Boerse, NEX Regulatory Reporting, TRADEcho, Tradeweb and Trax today launch a detailed Systematic Internaliser (SI) Registry. The service enables SIs to register the financial instruments for which they are providing SI services in a centralised database through their APA. The Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) regulatory protocols require that industry participants identify whether trading counterparties are SIs for the financial instrument that they are trading, so that they can determine which counterparty must report the trade. The problem is acute for both buy-side and sell-side part ... Read more »

Launch of uniquely flexible HSM as a Service with vXchnge for the US market. Flexibility also attracts post-quantum cryptography experts. CAMPBELL, Calif. -Thursday, April 12th 2018 [ AETOS Wire ] (BUSINESS WIRE)-- Utimaco, the second largest Hardware Security Module (HSM) manufacturer in the world, is announcing its innovative CryptoServer Cloud HSM as a Service offering, as well as new hardware and several technology partnerships, including some around key advances in post-quantum cryptography (PQC). All this will be showcased at the annual RSA Conference being held in San Francisco beginning April 16. Launches uniquely flexible HSM as a Service offering with vXchnge allowing organizations in multi-cloud environments to be secure and ensure Cloud Service Provider independence. Partnership with ISARA showcases why leading experts in post-quantum research work with Utimaco HSMs. Promise of Security with Cloud Service Provider (CSP) Independence CryptoServer Cloud is a unique HS ... Read more »