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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.

VGS is a Forbes 2021 Next Billion-Dollar Startup – WOAH! We’re thrilled to be one of only 25 companies selected for this distinction by Forbes and TrueBridge Capital Partners.

VGS has teamed up with Cobalt, an innovative Pentest-as-a-Service (PtaaS) company, to help businesses improve their security posture and achieve compliance easier by protecting sensitive data.

VGS congratulates four of our customers, Aspiration, Brex, Gemini, and TrueBill, that made the Forbes' Fintech 50 2021 list of most innovative fintech companies.

Making this prestigious list is no easy feat and puts organizations in the company of notable 'graduates' (aka those who have gone public) like Coinbase and Affirm. We’re not at all surprised to see these four listed, with their focus on innovation extending all the way to security and compliance.

Today, we are excited to announce our participation in Visa Fintech Partner Connect, a program designed to help Visa’s issuing clients quickly connect with a vetted and curated set of technology providers.

Now more than ever, cardholders expect best-in-class experiences from their issuers. Concurrently, issuers have evolved in recent years from exclusively traditional banks with brick and mortar branches to everything from food delivery platforms to crypto exchanges. Couple heightened cardholder expectations and the expanded issuer category with digital acceleration driven by the Covid-19 pandemic, and you have meaningful tailwinds resulting in more personalized and nimble card products.