On Finovate.com

• Ayondo Opens Offices in Barcelona and Madrid

Around the web

• Financial Times profiles Avi Turgeman, founder of BioCatch.

• Metro Bank to deploy workforce management technology from NICE.

• Let’s Talk Payments interviews OneVisage founder, Christophe Remillet.

• Darwinex reveals winners of its DarwinIA Trading Challenge.

• Synergix features CashSentinel (in French).

• Siam Commercial Bank deploys Ripple technology for cross-border payments between Japan and Thailand.

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