FinTech Start-Up BetterTradeOff Unveils Life-Planning Platform ‘Up’ To Help Singaporeans Take Control of the Future Through Better Financial Decisions
- 6 years 8 months ago
- Trading Systems
FinTech start-up BetterTradeOff (BTO) announced today the launch of a revolutionary online solution that allows people to take control of their future and unleash new possibilities through better financial decisions.
RiskFirst’s PFaroe Recognised as ALM Product of the Year in the Risk Markets Technology Awards 2020
- 6 years 8 months ago
- Risk Management
Fintech company RiskFirst (A Moody’s Analytics Company) has won the Asset-Liability Management (ALM) product of the year award for its market-leading risk management platform, PFaroe, in the Risk Markets Technology Awards. The 2020 awards, which recognise global best practice in risk management and technology excellence, drew 180 pitches across nearly 30 categories, with the winners decided by a panel of nine industry experts and two members...
Air Europa Selects Riskified PSD2 Optimization to Maximize Revenue and Improve Customer Experience
- 6 years 8 months ago
- E-Commerce, Payments
Riskified, the payments and fraud-prevention solution provider announced today that Air Europa, the airline division of Globalia, has chosen Riskified PSD2 Optimization to allow the airline to maintain a frictionless booking experience and maximize revenue under the EU’s new PSD2 regulation. Riskified data shows that European merchants could miss out on up to 15 percent of their revenue if they do not proactively address the regulation.
Agreement between SIA and Unicocampania to enable contactless payments on public transport in Naples and at regional level
- 6 years 8 months ago
- Payments
The world of public transport is preparing to face a new challenge. Thanks to the agreement signed between SIA and the Unicocampania Consortium, trials will start in the second half of 2020 in Naples, Salerno, Avellino and their respective provinces for payment of tickets for local public transport using contactless credit and debit cards.
Onfido and b-sharpe announced a partnership for faster customer oboarding
- 6 years 8 months ago
- Digital Identity, Financial
Onfido announced a partnership with b-sharpe, a leading Swiss company in online currency exchange, to provide a better sign up experience to its users when verifying identities on their platform. Onfido’s AI-powered identity verification technology allows b-sharpe to drastically accelerate its customer onboarding while remaining financially compliant.
SEBA launches its investment solutions with new crypto index
- 6 years 8 months ago
- Banking
SEBA, an integrated bank focused on digital assets, launches its investment solutions and introduces a new index for cryptographic assets. The SEBA Crypto Asset Select Index (SEBAX) is a dynamic, risk-optimised index with a broad market exposure of the crypto asset market. The underlying proprietary methodology addresses the pitfalls of traditional market value-weighted indices and allows optimized diversification.
Equifax and the Open Data Institute launch global report on consumer data consent
- 6 years 8 months ago
- Data
Equifax, the business and consumer insights expert, and the Open Data Institute (ODI), the international organisation dedicated to improving the use of data, have today launched an in-depth research report looking at the international consent framework for Open Banking.
CryptoCompare to Offer Institutional Clients Digital Asset Data via BT Radianz Cloud
- 6 years 8 months ago
- Asset Management
CryptoCompare, the global leader in digital asset data, today announced the availability of a suite of digital asset data products in the BT Radianz Cloud, one of the world’s largest secure financial markets cloud communities. The comprehensive real-time and historical dataset will provide institutional clients with a granular, reliable view of the digital asset class.
Avaloq recognized as a Leader in wealth management solutions in the 2019 NelsonHall NEAT report
- 6 years 8 months ago
- Financial
Global fintech Avaloq has again been recognized as a Leader in the 2019 NelsonHall NEAT vendor evaluation for Wealth & Asset Management Services, one of the most comprehensive such assessments globally. This is the second major award given to Avaloq in the past few months for its wealth management capabilities. In September it was named Overall Winner in the 2019 XCelent European Wealth Management Technology Vendors report - Europe’s most...
Finantix Continues Global Expansion with Office Opening in Sydney, Australia
- 6 years 8 months ago
- Financial
Finantix, the leading global provider of trusted technology to the wealth management, insurance and banking industries, is pleased to announce the opening of its new office in Australia to further support its expansion in the Asia-Pacific region.
Copper covers 96% of the crypto market after Walled Garden expansion
- 6 years 8 months ago
- Infrastructure
Copper, the London-based custodian for digital assets, has expanded its Walled Garden infrastructure and is now connected to the top 15 exchanges – including: Coinbase, Deribit, OKEx, Bitstamp, Bitfinex, Huobi, Binance, Bitmex, Kraken, Bittrex and HitBTC. This gives Copper’s institutional customers access to a larger liquidity pool as the company’s trade and settlement volumes continue to increase 50% month-on-month.
Investors’ confidence in P2P lending is growing in Europe
- 6 years 8 months ago
- P2P Lending
According to a survey by the platform Robo.cash, 64.9% of the European P2P investors have full confidence in P2P lending. Remarkably, 52.3% of respondents mentioned that P2P loans take a considerable share of their investment portfolio - over 25%.
JGOO reveals many UK retailers are failing in China - new focus needed
- 6 years 8 months ago
- Payments
JGOO, the next generation mobile payments platform, says many UK retailers are failing to break into the Chinese market because they don’t acknowledge its huge scale and localise their propositions accordingly. Further, it says that many companies don’t understand the country’s strict censorship arrangements or adapt to the unique shopping habits of Chinese consumers.
ECB Offers Support to Bank-backed Alternative to Visa and Mastercard
- 6 years 8 months ago
- Banking
The European Central Bank has welcomed an initiative by some of Europe's top banks to explore the development of a rival payment system to challenge the dominance of Visa and Mastercard and the threat from Chinese and US Big Tech firms Backed by twenty French and German banks, the The Pan European Payment System Initiative (Pepsi) would seeks handle all forms of cashless transactions. The ECB has long-floated the idea of a home-grown cross-...
ACD and Alchemy Launches ACD Cryptocurrency Tokens Across Asia
- 6 years 8 months ago
- Payments, Bitcoins, Cryptocurrencies
Alchemy Global Payment Solutions Limited ("Alchemy"), a global cryptocurrency payment pioneer that powers businesses with Asia's first hybrid cryptocurrency and fiat payment solutions ("Hybrid Payment Solution"), has partnered with Tokyo-based ACD Inc. (a Joint-Venture Group Company of ANA Holdings, TSE:9202) ("ACD"), a company that provides cross-border e-commerce and global air cargo delivery, logistic services in Japan, to enable ACD tokens...
