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The Fintech & Friends Fantasy Football League, proudly sponsored by VGS, just wrapped up its second season, scoring a major win for charity, donating $4,700 to 20 deserving causes. Founded by Clarke Mitzner, VGS’s Partnerships Director, and avid fantasy football enthusiast, along with VGS’s Sales Manager Austin Clark, the league bridges the gap between work and play while fostering connections across the fintech industry.

In the world of remote work and global partnerships, industry events are invaluable opportunities to be in-person, whether to make new connections, re-establish existing ones, or conduct meetings that are more effective face-to-face. With a host of events usually concentrated in (and often overlapping) the spring and fall months, knowing which events to prioritize can make life a lot easier when the event season gets in full swing.

VGS and PAAY are teaming up to bring seamless, secure payment solutions to merchants, combining tokenization with 3DS authentication to reduce fraud and enhance customer experience.

VGS is thrilled to announce a significant milestone in our journey as the World’s Leader in Payments Tokenization. We are honored to be the newest AWS Financial Services Competency Partner and are now part of an elite group of providers offering cloud-based solutions built on AWS.

We are excited to share that VGS has joined the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Independent Software Vendor (ISV) Workload Migration Program (WMP). This marks another strategic milestone in the relationship between VGS and AWS, enhancing the security and flow of our customers’ payments data globally.

Today, VGS reaffirms its commitment to delivering best-in-class payments infrastructure by announcing our partnership with Drata, the industry leader in risk and compliance automation. As the largest cloud-based tokenization platform, VGS powers the flow of the world’s sensitive data and our customers trust us to continue to deliver modern solutions to keep their data moving freely, securely, and compliant.

Since 2014, Lviv’s IT Arena conference has been the place where international researchers, developers, hackers, engineers, startups, and investors have met their Ukrainian counterparts. This year, there were also a few soldiers and spies.

We are thrilled to share that Very Good Security (VGS) has been named a "Cool Vendor in Data Security" by Gartner, a leading research and advisory company. VGS is recognized for its unique, transformative approach to data security and protection capabilities as a service.

Our thoughts are with all citizens of Ukraine as they endure unprovoked military aggression from the Russian Federation. We are working around the clock to ensure the safety of our team members, partners, and customers impacted by the current geopolitical environment. We are actively assisting in the safe relocation of our employees and their families.

Dismissing payments simply as a cost center will put any merchant at a significant disadvantage today. The reach and impact of payments has broadened extensively in recent years, transforming from just a function to be performed into a feature to be delivered. Payments now have direct input into the customer experience, geographic expansion and overall business performance. Indeed, many of the fastest-growing merchants and marketplaces around the world can draw a direct link between their success and their payments strategy.