Investment analysts will be able to develop independent research businesses through Boost Research, the first grassroots accelerator by Smartkarma
- 7 years 1 month ago
- Investment Management
Expert mentorship, financial support, data and office services as well as direct access to the global Smartkarma network available
ITRS Group Partners with MapR for New Gateway Hub in Geneos
- 7 years 1 month ago
- Data, Infrastructure
ITRS Group, the leading provider of real-time monitoring and IT operations analytics to financial services firms, has announced a partnership with MapR, a pioneer in delivering the industry's leading data platform for AI and analytics, both on site and across the cloud. The collaboration will see MapR software integrated with ITRS Geneos.
Capitolis Starts Groundbreaking Novation Service in Foreign Exchange Field
- 7 years 1 month ago
- Risk Management, Infrastructure
Partnership with leading institutions including Citi, HSBC, BlueCrest and Brevan Howard Capitolis, the pioneering technology provider for the capital markets, announced today that it has launched a groundbreaking novation service in foreign exchange (FX). Citi, HSBC, BlueCrest and Brevan Howard, among many other market participants, have collaborated with Capitolis on this service, which is the first of its kind in FX.
AimBrain On Demand launched by AimBrain provides free-for-life platform to switch from passwords and PINS to another level of identity authentication
- 7 years 1 month ago
- Security, IT Innovations
Disruptive model encourages innovation by providing self-service identity management tools to technical and creative audiences AimBrain has unveiled a free-for-life platform that lets entrepreneurs, app developers and technical audiences swap PINS, passwords and codes for facial and voice user verification, in an autonomous, trial-to-deployment environment.
More Than Two Thirds of Companies Not Confident of Being Fully Compliant Ahead of GDPR Deadline
- 7 years 1 month ago
- Security
Data handling is number one concern relating to non-compliance
Ant Financial partners with China Everbright Bank and Everbright Technology to facilitate the bank’s digital transformation
- 7 years 1 month ago
- Banking
Ant Financial Services Group (“Ant Financial”) has signed a strategic cooperation agreement with China Everbright Bank Co., Ltd (“China Everbright Bank”) and Everbright Technology Co., Ltd. (“Everbright Technology”), a fintech subsidiary of China Everbright Group, to facilitate China Everbright Bank’s digital transformation.
Customer’s right to be forgotten under GDPR an opportunity for banks
- 7 years 1 month ago
- Compliance
With less than a week to go until GDPR enforcement, only 40 per cent of companies expect to achieve compliance with the regulation after the 25th May deadline. This number is alarming, as non-compliance fines start at €20 million or 4 per cent of annual global turnover.
Millenial Investors are taking over P2P Lending
- 7 years 1 month ago
- P2P Lending
Alternative lending observes a continuously increasing number of Millennials and Generation Z. According to the Latvian P2P platform Robo.cash, this tendency is supported by the interest of young investors in a simple and comfortable source of additional income and the positive experience gained at the existing peer-to-peer platforms.
75% of UK Accountants Aware of Making Tax Digital, but One Third Unclear About its Impact
- 7 years 1 month ago
- Accounting
New research released today by Intuit QuickBooks, the world’s leading online accounting software provider, has found that while the majority (75%) of UK accountants have heard of the upcoming Making Tax Digital (MTD) legislation, nearly a third (30%) of this group are unclear about what it means for their practice, revealing a disconnect between awareness of the legislation and an understanding of its implications.
Play2Live Launches Payments in LUC Tokens on P2L.TV and Enters Crypto Exchanges
- 7 years 1 month ago
- Blockchain
Play2Live, the world's first decentralized streaming platform for gamers & esports fans built on blockchain technology, has reached an agreement for all users to trade LUC (Level Up Coin) tokens on Yobit, CoinBene & HitBTC. By July 2018, LUC will
Pioneer Location Data Provider Companies are Gathering Around HD Live Map as Self-Driving Cars Global Standard
- 7 years 1 month ago
- Technical
HERE Technologies and its partners in China, Japan and Korea have joined forces to enable a unified global digital representation of the road environment from 2020 Through their OneMap Alliance, the companies will make it easier for any OEM to deploy world-class mapping to help autonomous vehicles drive safely and efficiently The OneMap Alliance is open to new, strategic partners across the globe
Safe, Smart Twitter for Finance has become more mobile
- 7 years 1 month ago
- Data Protection, Security, Data Management, Financial, Technical
Market EarlyBird, the UK FinTech company behind EarlyBird – Safe, Smart Twitter for Finance announced the immediate availability of a native mobile client for EarlyBird. EarlyBird is a read-only, anonymised Twitter service that provides powerful Tweet search and filtering capabilities enabling users to find financial Tweets that others miss.
Statnett Optimises Norway’s Electricity with FICO Analytics
- 7 years 1 month ago
- AML and KYC
Statnett, the Norwegian transmission systems operator (TSO) for energy, has selected FICO Xpress Optimization to power their models of the future of electricity needs in Norway and optimise the current infrastructure. The solution will be used across the organisation to process, analyse and plan key factors relating to the sector.
Finastra welcomes four early adopters to its FusionFabric.cloud open platform
- 7 years 1 month ago
- Banking, Cloud
Finastra today welcomed four early adopters to its FusionFabric.cloud open platform. US-based Fintechs, including Tradle, Conversation.one, Active Allocator and GreenPoint Financial, are on board to design and create apps on Finastra’s platform. This represents the next wave of innovative financial services software development that will save banks time and money and enable Fintech developers to speed up time to market.
Intuit QuickBooks Announced Results of its Research About Accountants' Perspective on Making Tax Digital
- 7 years 1 month ago
- Financial, Accounting
New research released today by Intuit QuickBooks, the world’s leading online accounting software provider, has found that while the majority (75%) of UK accountants have heard of the upcoming Making Tax Digital (MTD) legislation, nearly a third (30%) of this group are unclear about what it means for their practice, revealing a disconnect between awareness of the legislation and an understanding of its implications.
