Modulr to invest £20m to supercharge Scottish fintech
- 6 years 11 months ago
- Payments
Edinburgh-based FinTech
Charles Stanley Selects Red Deer for MiFID II Research Compliance
- 6 years 11 months ago
- Management
Red Deer, the financial technology company dedicated to enhancing the performance of active investment managers, is pleased to announce that Charles Stanley, one of the UK’s leading wealth management firms with £24.4bn in assets under management, has selected its Research Management solution. The solution will enable Charles Stanley to seamlessly integrate MiFID II compliance across their investment process, whilst being better placed to fully...
For UK Consumers the Front Door of a Bank is Now Its Mobile App, Not Its Physical Branch, According to New Marqeta Survey
- 6 years 11 months ago
- Banking
Marqeta, the first global modern card issuing platform, announced the results today of its new digital banking survey, which found that demand for physical bank branches continues to decline as digital banking platforms offer more seamless access to remote money management tools.
TransferGo Strengthens Leadership Team and Launches in New Markets Following Record Year for Growth
- 6 years 11 months ago
- Money Transfers
TransferGo, one of the world’s fastest growing money transfer companies, has today announced that it has now completed over five million transactions, with its user base continuing to grow in the thousands each day. To support this rapid growth, the remittance company has made four senior hires from some of the biggest names in the technology and financial services sector like PayPal and Santander and launched its service in four new markets...
Mambu To Power Recognise, The New Bank For SMES Launching In 2020
- 6 years 11 months ago
- Banking, Cloud
Ahead of its highly anticipated launch in 2020, new SME banking entrant Recognise has appointed cloud banking provider Mambu. Recognise’s appointment of Mambu and its market leading cloud-native solution, will transform and improve banking service levels by enhanced transparency, communication and speed of transactions for SMEs.
PPRO becomes first international partner of BLIK
- 6 years 11 months ago
- Payments
Polish consumers are now able to shop and pay at more places online direct from their mobile phone via BLIK, thanks to a partnership between PPRO, the leading global payments platform, and the Polish Payment Standard (PPS), operator of BLIK. International retailers wanting to close sales with Polish customers can also receive payment simply and securely via BLIK.
Fingerprints Unveils Next-Gen Touchless Authentication Platform
- 6 years 11 months ago
- Security
Fingerprint Cards (Fingerprints™) today launched its Touchless 2.0 platform, combining the convenience of face recognition with the security of iris, to meet demand from smartphone and emerging IoT OEMs. The new platform – which can be leveraged independently or as part of a multimodal biometric authentication solution together with fingerprint touch sensors – enables an improved user experience that works indoors or outside, in daylight or in...
Capitalise.com Hires ex Receipt Bank CRO
- 6 years 11 months ago
- People Moves
Capitalise.com, the leading business funding platform for accountants, has appointed ex Receipt Bank CRO, Nelson Da Silva, as Chief Revenue Officer. The new hire comes following a period of growth for the company, which closed a £3.5m funding round in February 2019, subsequently doubling its staff headcount, and confirms Capitalise.com’s position as an accounting technology business.
Alibaba Cloud and Animal Logic Deepen Global Technology Collaboration
- 6 years 11 months ago
- Cloud, Data
Alibaba Cloud, the data intelligence backbone of Alibaba Group, and Animal Logic, one of the world’s leading independent creative digital studios, have announced a partnership to meet the growing and demanding requirements of media production. Animal Logic has started backing-up its on-premise production content onto Alibaba Cloud’s world-class computing platform. Through this partnership, the parties hope to drive efficiencies of media...
Finastra appoints Mehjabeen Poonawala as new India Head
- 6 years 11 months ago
- People Moves
Finastra today announced the appointment of Mehjabeen Poonawala as its new Head of India. In this new expanded role, Mehjabeen is responsible for driving Finastra’s growth strategy and deepening the company’s partnerships and footprint in India, in addition to her existing roles as Site Lead for Pune and Head of Finastra’s Agile Center of Excellence.
Target Group announces change of leadership
- 6 years 11 months ago
- Financial
Target Group, the operational transformation, business process servicing and software provider has announced that Ian Larkin steps down as CEO of the business at the end of the year. After five years at the helm, Ian has led Target through a huge transformation by doubling the business size, broadening its client base and overseeing the change of ownership to Tech Mahindra.
AxiomSL Partners with Genpact to Deliver IntegratedModelView ― An Innovative Framework for Model Management
- 6 years 11 months ago
- Management, Risk Management
AxiomSL, the industry’s leading provider of regulatory reporting and risk management solutions,today announces an agreement with Genpact, a global professional services firm focused on delivering digital transformation, to empower financial firms (FIs) to efficiently implement IntegratedModelView on the AxiomSL platform.
Trading Technologies Hires COO and Chief Growth Office
- 6 years 11 months ago
- Trading Systems, People Moves
Trading Technologies International, Inc. (TT), a global provider of high-performance professional trading software, infrastructure and data solutions, today announced the hiring of two new executives: Russ Cotton as chief operating officer and Craig Mohan as chief growth officer. Both hires will start work next month.
MackeyRMS Integrates with Symphony, Slack and Microsoft Teams
- 6 years 11 months ago
- Data Management
MackeyRMS, the leading provider of next-generation research management software, today announced integrations with messaging applications Symphony, Slack and Microsoft Teams. The new integrations enable the seamless capture, sharing and audit of chat collaborations among investment teams about securities and funds within their portfolios.
A Central Bank Will Issue a Consumer-Ready Digital Currency within Five Years - IBM Research
- 6 years 11 months ago
- Payments
Policy-makers at a number of central banks around the world are seriously considering developing and issuing a central bank digital currency (CBDC), with a consumer-ready CBDC likely to arrive in the next five years.
