Friends First Selects Financial Risk Solutions Invest|GRCTM
- 7 years 7 months ago
- Risk Management
Financial Risk Solutions (FRS), a Dublin-based provider of unit-linked investment administration and compliance oversight software, is pleased to announce that Friends First, one of Ireland’s leading life assurance companies, has selected its Invest|GRCTM (Governance, Risk & Compliance) software to produce Key Information Documents (KIDs), a central requirement of the upcoming Packaged Retail and Insurance-based Investment Products (“PRIIPs...
Visa Checkout Goes Live on Air Canada
- 7 years 7 months ago
- Payments
Visa today announced the availability of Visa Checkout with Air Canada, Canada's largest airline. With Visa Checkout, Air Canada customers can spend more time planning their trip and less time filling out payment and billing information.
Survey: 62% of British SMEs Voted to Remain in the EU. 41% Said Brexit has Negatively Impacted their Business
- 7 years 7 months ago
- Infrastructure
Product sourcing’ and ‘bottom line’ have been negatively impacted the most since the drop in the pound, say SMEs 41% of over 500 SMEs surveyed said the triggering of Article 50 has had a negative impact on their business 65% said leaving the EU will not affect their ability to hire staff Product sourcing and bottom line have taken the biggest hit since the vote to leave, according to SME owners
Concurrent and Alluxio Team to Provide Scalable Data Analytics at Memory Speed
- 7 years 7 months ago
- Data
Concurrent, a global leader in storage, protection, transformation and delivery of visual assets, and Alluxio, developers of the world's first system that unifies data at memory speed, today announced a joint solution that
Open Banking Launches Account Information and Payment Initiation API Specifications
- 7 years 7 months ago
- Banking
Open Banking, the implementation entity set up by the Competition & Markets Authority (CMA) to enable a new, secure way for customers to take control of their financial data and share it with organisations other than their banks, is pleased to announce the release of its Accounts and Transaction Information and Payments Initiation API Specifications.
Thomson Reuters Launches Startup Incubator
- 7 years 7 months ago
- Infrastructure
Thomson Reuters today announced the launch of Thomson Reuters Labs™ – The Incubator. Located in Switzerland, the Incubator will host early-stage entrepreneurs building next-generation products in big data, advanced analytics, distributed ledgers, artificial intelligence, machine learning and other transformational technologies. As part of the official program, startups will receive access to
Masabi Brings Mobile Ticketing to The Hague
- 7 years 7 months ago
- Infrastructure
Masabi, the global leader in transport mobile ticketing and innovative fare collection, today announced that it has deployed mobile ticketing on trams and buses to HTM Personenvervoer NV, the public transport company for The Hague, in The Netherlands.
Finastra Service Bureau Awarded SIP v2 Label by Swift
- 7 years 7 months ago
- Security
Finastra today announced that its UK-based service bureau (formerly part of D+H) has been awarded the SWIFT Shared Infrastructure Program (SIP) version 2 for 2016 label.
NEX SEF Goes Live
- 7 years 7 months ago
- Infrastructure
NEX Group plc, a financial technology company at the centre of global markets, announces today that its Swap Execution Facility (“SEF”), NEX SEF Limited (“NEX SEF”), went live on 3 July 2017.
Payment Systems Regulator Reveals Annual Report
- 7 years 7 months ago
- Payments
Now in its second operational year, the Payment Systems Regulator (PSR) has today published its annual report for 2016/17, which reviews its work over the past year. This year’s report highlights key achievements and milestones for 2016/17. The last 12 months have enabled the regulator to focus on the foundations set out during its first operational year, and make significant progress in addressing the issues identified to make payment systems...
Innotribe Selects Ten Firms for Russian Startup Challenge
- 7 years 7 months ago
- Infrastructure
Working in close collaboration with Innotribe, over one hundred judges from across the financial, technology, and investment communities evaluated over 40 applications received for the first edition of the Startup Challenge for Russia.
Equiniti Acquires Nostrum Group
- 7 years 7 months ago
- RegTech
Equiniti Group plc, the FTSE listed FinTech and regulatory services business, today announces the acquisition of the Nostrum Group Limited (Nostrum).
Record Tumbles as Bacs Sets New Processing High
- 7 years 7 months ago
- Payments
An impressive 120,000 transactions in a single minute – that’s the new record set by Bacs Payment Schemes Limited (Bacs), the organisation behind Direct Debit and Bacs Direct Credit in the UK. More than 111 million payments were processed in just one day at the end of June, outdistancing the previous high recorded just nine months earlier by 2.4 million. The news underlines the appeal of automated payments to UK businesses and consumers alike,...
TCV invests in AxiomSL
- 7 years 7 months ago
- Compliance, Security
AxiomSL, the global leader for risk data management and regulatory reporting technology for the financial services industry, today announced that growth equity firm TCV has made a strategic investment in the company. This investment represents AxiomSL’s first institutional financing, having bootstrapped to scale since its founding in 1991. TCV’s investment will enable the company to accelerate growth and cement its position as the financial...
Pendo CEO Pamela Pecs Cytron talks about unstructured data in business debate interview
- 7 years 7 months ago
- Banking, Data
The exponential increase in the amount of data held by financial institutions, 80 percent of which is unstructured data, is fast becoming a key challenge for CTOs/CIOs in financial institutions around the globe.
