BlockShow 2018 to Disrupt Europe with Its Largest Conference Ever

• 7 years 3 weeks ago
• Blockchain

Roughly two months after the big and successful event in Singapore, BlockShow team comes back to announce BlockShow Europe 2018 - the brand’s third big conference dedicated to discovering the hottest innovations, trends and sensations currently happening in both European and Global Blockchain scenes. This time the event will be held on May 28-29; organizing team decided not to move too far from the previous location, having chosen Berlin as a...

Singapore's FinLab Starts Accelerator Programme for SMEs

• 7 years 3 weeks ago
• FinTech StartUps

The FinLab, a joint venture between United Overseas Bank Limited (UOB) and SGInnovate1, today announced the launch of the third cycle of its acceleration programme. The programme is the first-designed by a local accelerator for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Singapore that have aspirations to grow and to digitalise. 

Alpine Festival Snowboxx Goes Cashless with Visa and iZettle

• 7 years 3 weeks ago
• Payments

Visa Inc. (NYSE: V) today announced that it will sponsor European snow and music festival, Snowboxx, in France, as the event’s ‘Official Payment Partner.’ Together with its partner, iZettle, Visa will transform the payments landscape at Snowboxx – aiming to help 100 percent of the festival’s merchants accept card, mobile and contactless payments. 

MYPINPAD ALIGNS ‘PIN ON MOBILE’ SOLUTION WITH PCI STANDARD

• 7 years 3 weeks ago
• Payments

Following the release of PCI SSC’s new standard for software-based PIN entry on mobile devices for card payment acceptance, MYPINPAD, a global leader in payments software authentication solutions, has launched its revolutionary ‘PIN on Mobile’ product; MPES. 

Wells Fargo Adds AI enhancements to App

• 7 years 3 weeks ago
• Artificial Intelligence, Banking

Today Wells Fargo & Company announced that mobile banking deposit customers nationwide now have access to a predictive banking feature that analyzes account information, providing mobile app users with tailored account insights and personalized financial guidance.  The feature is the latest in a series of innovations aimed at providing customers a more comprehensive view of their finances, and increased control to advance their financial...

Nasdaq and OPCOM Sign New Market Technology Agreement

• 7 years 3 weeks ago
• Foreign Exchange

Nasdaq Inc. (Nasdaq:NDAQ) and Operatorul Pietei de Energie Electrica si Gaze Naturale (OPCOM) have signed a new market technology agreement for Nasdaq to deliver new matching engine and clearing technology via the Nasdaq Financial Framework architecture to Romania's market operator for gas and electricity.

Portware Commits to FX Global Code of Conduct

• 7 years 3 weeks ago
• Trading Systems

IHS Markit Adds Corruption, Money Laundering and Sanctions Screening to Vendor Due Diligence Service

• 7 years 3 weeks ago
• Infrastructure

IHS Markit, a world leader in critical information, analytics and solutions, today announced that KY3P, its vendor risk management service, added financial crimes screening to its comprehensive due diligence tools.

Mitratech Announces New Release of PolicyHub

• 7 years 3 weeks ago
• Compliance, Risk Management

Mitratech, the leading provider of legal, compliance and risk management software announced exciting updates to PolicyHub, its comprehensive policy management solution. With the latest PolicyHub release, clients will save significant time creating and approving policies and procedures.

Chinese travelers can now use Alipay in all Starbucks across South Korea

• 7 years 3 weeks ago
• Payments

Alipay, the world’s largest online and mobile payment platform operated by Ant Financial Services Group (“Ant Financial”, “Ant”), is now available for mainland Chinese travelers at over 1,150 Starbucks branches across South Korea. Alipay is the first third-party mobile based payment method enabled nationwide at Starbucks in Korea. Adding to the e

Norwich City Council Signs Deal with Advanced to Automate Financial and HR Processes

• 7 years 3 weeks ago
• Infrastructure

Norwich City Council has signed a five year deal with Advanced to kick-start the digital transformation of its financial and HR operations. The Crown Commercial Service agreement will see the district council implement an on-premise solution to automate and integrate its core digital processes, which will improve working practices for its staff and deliver more efficient services for its 137,000 residents.

OANDA Introduces Spreads from 0.5 on Key Indices

• 7 years 3 weeks ago
• Trading Systems

A global leader in online multi-asset trading services, OANDA has introduced a new pricing model for several key indices that enables clients to access spreads as low as 0.5 when they trade the AUS200, FTSE100, GER30, NAS100 and the DOW30. Designed to reduce the cost of trading indices, the new tighter spreads are available to any client trading on the OANDA V20 platform during local market hours. Clients who are currently trading on OANDA’s ...

GridGain® Helps FSB Technology Massively Scale Out and Accelerate High Performance, Real-Time Sports Betting Platform as a Service

• 7 years 3 weeks ago
• Infrastructure

GridGain® Systems, provider of enterprise-grade in-memory computing solutions based on Apache® Ignite(TM), today announced that London-based FSB Technology (UK) Ltd., which provides real-time sports betting platforms as a fully-managed service, is relying on GridGain Enterprise Edition to ensure real-time performance and scalability of their PostgreSQ

the multi-peril catastrophe (cat) risk modelling platform operated on the Oasis Loss Modelling Framework

• 7 years 3 weeks ago
• Data, Risk Management

Microsoft and Beyond.pl signed an agreement allowing Polish customers to process their data with Microsoft Azure at a local Polish data center. Data Center 2 in Poznań thus became the first Azure Stack cloud location in both Poland and Central and Eastern Europe. Beyond.pl will offer selected Azure services from Q2 2018. Joint Azure Stack offer by Microsoft and Beyond.pl opens up a new opportunity to utilise full potential of Microsoft Azure for...

SIMPLITIUM'S CAT RISK MODELLING PLATFORM EMBRACES THE OASIS ECOSYSTEM TO BRING MORE CHOICE TO (RE)INSURERS

• 7 years 3 weeks ago
• Risk Management

FinTech provider Simplitium, today announces the delivery of their new user interface for ModEx, the multi-peril catastrophe (cat) risk modelling platform operated on the Oasis Loss Modelling Framework (LMF). The new user interface provides firms with a centralised source for their cat model requirements via a single access point (modex.simplitium.com). There is no client-side installation required.