On Finovate.com

• “P2P Lender Zopa to Launch Challenger Bank”

• “Finovate/FinDEVr Alums Featured Among Monitise FINkit Platform Partners”

• “Veridium Brings Hand Recognition Authentication to Mobile-Only Dutch bank, bunq”

Around the web

• Co-founder of Markit, Rony Grushka, joins Algomi’s board of directors.

• FinDEVr alum Quovo launches its account-authentication API.

• Juvo teams up with Cable & Wireless to provide mobile credit services in the Caribbean.

• Mastercard partners with Ratnakar Bank to launch Masterpass QR in India.

• Thomson Reuters unveils its Thomson Reuters Pricing Service Evaluation Score (TRPS) to support pricing transparency.

• LendingTree acquires credit card comparison and education provider, CompareCards.

• Pirean wins security innovation of the year at the U.K.’s 2016 IT Industry Awards.

• SafetyPay to power payment solutions for Payzoff.

• NatWest deploys BioCatch behavioral biometrics technology.
• Boku provides direct carrier billing in Japan for Spotify.

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