Intelliflo’s fifth national conference open for bookings
- 6 years 11 months ago
- Infrastructure
Intelliflo has opened bookings for its fifth ‘Change the Game’ conference, to be held on Tuesday 18 June 2019 at the Business Design Centre (BDC) in London and on 4 July at the Manchester Central Convention Complex. A record 809 financial advisers, paraplanners and product providers from across the UK attended the 2018 conference. In anticipation of an even larger turnout in 2019, both events have moved into larger halls at the venues.
Velocity & B-Hive partnership links Fintech hubs in pan-European collaboration
- 6 years 11 months ago
- Artificial Intelligence, Infrastructure
The IA’s fintech innovation hub and accelerator, Velocity, and Brussels-based fintech ecosystem B-Hive have signed a partnership designed to boost fintech innovation across the asset management industry by promoting pan-European collaboration. The partnership signed by Fabian Vandenreydt, Executive Chairman, B-Hive and Peter Harrison, Chair of the IA Board, signals a commitment to a closer relationship between the two organisations with the aim...
SETL announces start of corporate reorganisation further to successful completion and approval of the regulated CSD development
- 6 years 11 months ago
- Blockchain
In line with its 2018 strategic and operational plan, SETL the London based institutional payment and settlement infrastructure provider using blockchain technology, has focussed its resources on successfully developing and funding the establishment of the ID2S and IZNES platforms in Paris. Of particular note, SETL made significant capital contributions to ID2S, the regulated CSD. In October 2018, the platform successfully completed its T2S...
National Settlement Depository first CSD to sign up for SWIFT gpi
- 6 years 11 months ago
- Payments
National Settlement Depository (NSD), Russia’s central securities depository (CSD) has become the first CSD to sign up for SWIFT’s gpi service – a rapid cross-border payments service that provides real-time payments tracking and transparency on bank fees and foreign exchange rates.
Banco do Brasil London Branch Deploys CloudMargin Platform for Global Collateral Processing
- 6 years 11 months ago
- Banking, Cloud
CloudMargin, creator of the world’s first and only collateral and margin management solution native to the cloud, today announced that Banco do Brasil in London, a branch of one of Latin America’s largest banks, has deployed the CloudMargin platform for its global collateral processing.
Savers at mercy of widening pensions advice gap
- 6 years 11 months ago
- Wealth Management
An advice gap exists in the UK, having started in the wake of the 2013 retail distribution review (RDR). This resulted in advisers making their charges transparent for consumers – and putting people with low wealth off seeking advice.
Survey Shows Disjointed Communications Technologies Fail Customers
- 6 years 11 months ago
- Cloud, Infrastructure
RingCentral UK Ltd., a leading provider of global enterprise cloud communications and collaboration solutions and a wholly owned subsidiary of RingCentral, Inc. (NYSE: RNG), released a new report entitled Overcoming the Digital Disconnect: How Disjointed Communications Technologies Are Letting Customers Down – and How to Solve it.
Avaya Opens New Customer Experience Centre in Guildford
- 6 years 11 months ago
- Cloud, Infrastructure
Following a year of investment and development, Avaya Holdings Corp. (NYSE:AVYA) today announced the opening of its new Customer Experience Centre (CEC) in Guildford. The state-of-the-art facility will act as the UK’s leading showcase of the latest contact centre, communication and collaboration technology that is enabling the digital workplace and excellent digital customer experiences.
Ant Financial Launches Distributed Core Banking Platform with Hoperun Information Technology
- 6 years 11 months ago
- Banking
Ant Financial Services Group (Ant Financial) and Jiangsu-based Hoperun Information Technology (Hoperun) today unveiled its Distributed Core Banking Platform (DCBP), a next generation banking product which is designed to help financial institutions shift their business models from transaction-oriented to customer-oriented. The platform also aims to help financial institutions tackle digital challenges, including distributed development, financial...
Funky Pigeon soars to new heights with Claranet’s AWS and DevOps optimisation
- 6 years 11 months ago
- Cloud
The challenge The company always faces seasonal spikes in website traffic and needed to ensure its online platform was stable and fully functional during busy periods. This was especially true at Christmas where workloads could increase by 5x to respond to customer demand and fluctuations in data traffic were creating network instability and having a negative effect on the customer experience.
TradingScreen Expands into Montréal
- 6 years 11 months ago
- Trading Systems, Infrastructure
TradingScreen Inc. (TS), the global, multi-asset class order and execution management system (OEMS), today announced that it would be expanding its development and technology operations to Montréal as “TradingScreen Electronic Financial Solutions Inc.” (TS Canada). TS’s expansion into Canada brings TS’s physical presence into nine countries.
Finance Industry Is “One Court Case Away” from Claims Management Company Onslaught, Quadient Warns
- 6 years 11 months ago
- Infrastructure
After targeting PPI repayments and penalties for Payday Loan Companies, consumer Claims Management Companies (CMCs) will now set their sights on financial organisations that have suffered data protection breaches, customer experience expert Quadient has warned. In the wake of regulation changes, CMCs are currently focusing their attention on the Payday Loan Companies – speeding the collapse of Wonga and others. However, before this avenue is...
Financial crime experts: ‘the Senior Managers & Certification Regime needs to broaden the responsibility for anti-money laundering’
- 6 years 11 months ago
- Risk Management
LexisNexis® Risk Solutions, the global information solutions provider, today releases its latest analysis of the anti-money laundering (AML) sector in the UK. Research conducted with senior AML stakeholders, suggests that as part of the Senior Managers & Certification Regime (SM&CR), senior management – not just the Money Laundering Reporting Officer – should be held responsible for money laundering failings.
Western Union to Present at the Wolfe Research FinTech Forum
- 6 years 11 months ago
- Money Transfers
The Western Union Company (NYSE: WU), a global leader in cross-border, cross-currency money movement, today announced that the company will present at the Wolfe Research FinTech Forum on March 13, 2019. The presentation will begin at 10:25 a.m. Eastern time and will include comments from Raj Agrawal, Executive Vice President and CFO.
QuickBooks Announces Full MTD Product Suite is live
- 6 years 11 months ago
- Infrastructure
Intuit QuickBooks today announced its full Making Tax Digital (MTD) product suite is live. In a product demonstration on stage at QuickBooks Connect London, VP and UK country Manager, Chris Evans, and Head of Product Europe, Shaun Shirazian, showed how both accounting professionals and small businesses can use QuickBooks, now, to file in compliance with the biggest tax compliance change in a generation; HMRC’s Making Tax Digital for VAT.
