Mastercard SpendingPulseTM forecasts a big holiday shopping season
- 7 years 2 months ago
- Payments
It’s shaping up to be one heck of a holiday shopping season. Mastercard SpendingPulse™, which provides insights into overall retail spending trends, is forecasting a banner year for online and in-store commerce across all payment types. Total retail sales (excluding automotive) are expected to grow 5 percent and e-commerce at 20 percent over last year.
Framework appoints Renato Moreschi as Head of Market Solutions
- 7 years 2 months ago
- Data, Accounting
Framework, a specialist global solutions vendor for Private Equity (PE) and Real Estate (RE) investments, has made a senior hire to its leadership team amid increasing demand for its enterprise investment accounting data management solutions. The role will strengthen the focus on innovation and delivering the best service to Framework’s customers.
Cloud accounting software Pandle hits 20k users
- 7 years 2 months ago
- Cloud, Accounting
Pandle, the UK’s No1 cloud accountancy software company, has smashed the 20,000 users milestone just three years after its launch. Created by accountant and tech entrepreneur, Lee Murphy, Pandle is a free online software package. It’s popularity stems from its simplicity: it is the perfect tool for beginners with limited accounting experience. The intuitive design provides a valuable support to small businesses and freelancers helping them to...
Corlytics launches free Regulatory Event Data (RED) app
- 7 years 2 months ago
- Security, Data
New disruptive app offers a free, centralised feed of regulatory notices from global regulators for the financial services industry
NTT Security Risk:Value report asks if business leaders are failing to shoulder responsibility for information security
- 7 years 2 months ago
- Security
Responsibility for information security is not falling to any one senior executive function, according to the 2018 Risk:Value report from NTT Security, the specialised security company of NTT Group, which surveyed 1,800 senior decision makers from non-IT functions in global organisations.
GlobalPlatform Expands Card/SE Spec Following Widespread Consumer & M2M Deployments
- 7 years 2 months ago
- Security, Infrastructure
GlobalPlatform, the standard for secure digital services and devices, has released version 2.3.1 of its Card / Secure Element (SE) Specification. The release supports the latest extensions of GlobalPlatform technology following widespread deployments in consumer and machine-to-machine (M2M) devices. 100% of the 1 billion SEs embedded in smartphones in the last three years are GlobalPlatform-certified and more than 5.5 billion GlobalPlatform-...
Citi Launches Multi-Currency Notional Pooling Capabilities in the Netherlands
- 7 years 2 months ago
- Infrastructure
Citi has today announced the launch of its Multi-Currency Notional Pooling Capabilities in the Netherlands. Citi has existing Multi-Currency Notional Pooling capabilities in London for its multi-national clients. By setting up capabilities in Amsterdam, Citi is now giving its clients choice and flexibility to enable them to better manage their working capital and liquidity according to their treasury models and needs.
Signicat granted EU Quality Trust Mark for security and quality of services
- 7 years 2 months ago
- Security
Signicat, a leader in verified digital identity and electronic signature solutions, has been granted the status of Qualified Trust Service Provider (QTSP) by the Norwegian communications authority, NKOM.
Wolters Kluwer to Share RegTech and SupTech Insights at Singapore FinTech Festival
- 7 years 2 months ago
- Compliance, Regulatory Standards, Risk Management
Wolters Kluwer’s Finance, Risk & Reporting (FRR) business will be sharing its integrated regulatory compliance and reporting expertise at this week’s Singapore FinTech Festival – the world’s largest FinTech event.
Coleman Research launches research interactions platform - creating one venue for managing all aspects of analyst access and meetings
- 7 years 2 months ago
- Cloud, Infrastructure
Coleman Research, a leading global provider of primary research, today announced the launch of Coleman Exchange, a cloud-based software platform that helps research providers and the buy-side manage key aspects of the research interactions life-cycle. With Coleman Exchange, users can use the platform for marketing availability, scheduling, managing subscriptions, and invoicing for analyst access and meetings. The platform also provides...
Trying to understand blockchain? Here's a simple explanation
- 7 years 2 months ago
- Blockchain, Banking
In the last two years, technologists and storytellers have struggled to explain blockchain in simple terms that everyone can understand. At its core, blockchain is a digital ledger of transactions. Just like bookkeepers once used bound, paper based ledgers to log transactions and reconcile accounts.
The leading Russian online loan originator joined to Robo.cash
- 7 years 2 months ago
- P2P Lending
The European P2P platform Robo.cash has been recently joined by the leading Russian microfinance company MFC Zaymer which has supplied investors with the opportunity to invest in short-term loans issued by its online lending service Zaymer.ru. An expected annual return for investors will comprise up to 14% in EUR and up to 18% in for loans listed in RUB.
ION treasury solution UPS wins EuroFinance 2018 Treasury Excellence Award for Technology Implementation
- 7 years 2 months ago
- Transaction Banking, Risk Management
ION, the largest global provider of trading, analytics and risk management solutions for capital markets, commodities and treasury management, announces that its customer, the global logistics leader United Parcel Service (UPS), is winner of the 2018 EuroFinance Treasury Excellence Award for Technology Implementation. The annual EuroFinance Awards recognize companies that have applied new technology successfully to a core treasury problem, and...
LexisNexis® Risk Solutions wins Chartis RiskTech100® 2019 award for Financial Crime – Data
- 7 years 2 months ago
- Risk Management, Infrastructure
Technology, data and analytics firm, LexisNexis® Risk Solutions, which is a part of RELX Group, was recognised as the category leader for Financial Crime (data) in Chartis Research’s RiskTech100® study of the leading global risk technology providers. LexisNexis Risk Solutions jumped 11 spots in the ranking this year to number 16.
Sageworks wraps up inaugural CECL Transition Workshop series, expands for 2019
- 7 years 2 months ago
- Risk Management
Sageworks, a financial information company that offers lending, credit risk and portfolio risk solutions to banks and credit unions, concluded its inaugural CECL Transition Workshop series this month. Sageworks hosted seven workshops throughout the country in 2018 to help financial institutions transition to the FASB’s current expected credit loss (CECL) accounting standard.
