Path Solutions Signs Sudan Financial Services Co. to iMAL
- 7 years 9 months ago
- Core Banking, Islamic Finance
Kuwait-based Path Solutions, an international core banking system provider for Islamic banks and financial institutions, has announced the signing of a licence agreement with Sudan Financial Services Company (“SFSC”), giving Path Solutions unrestricted access to deploy its iMAL Enterprise Islamic & Investment System across their business.
AccessPay and Assembly Payments Win Swift gpi Challenge
- 7 years 9 months ago
- Payments
SWIFT gives two FinTech startups the opportunity to work with the co-operative and gpi banks over a three-month period to further enhance cross-border payments, leveraging on SWIFT gpi. The two startups will receive up to 100,000 EUR each to further develop their innovative concepts and will participate in Sibos, SWIFT’s annual financial services event to be held in Toronto in October. The two winners of the SWIFT gpi industry challenge held...
Wealthsimple Launches in the UK
- 7 years 9 months ago
- Wealth Management
Wealthsimple, a leading digital wealth manager, continues to make smart investing accessible and low-cost to more people with today's announcement of the company's expansion to the United Kingdom.
Infortrend Collaborates with Alibaba Cloud to Cultivate the Hybrid Cloud Storage Market
- 7 years 9 months ago
- Cloud
Infortrend Technology, Inc. today announced that it will partner with Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing arm of Alibaba Group, to collaboratively deliver scalable and easy to deploy hybrid cloud storage services to customers in the Great China region.
UnitedLex Expands Bulgarian Presence
- 7 years 9 months ago
- Security, Infrastructure
Sofia, Bulgaria—UnitedLex, a global, full-service provider of technology-powered business, legal and cybersecurity services, today announced it is expanding its presence in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia. The Bulgarian office currently provides digital contracting services to UnitedLex clients throughout Europe. UnitedLex’s Bulgarian facility is enabled to provide a range of additional legal services including litigation, data privacy, and...
Icon Solutions Completes Functional Testing with EBA Clearing’s RT1 SCT Inst Platform
- 7 years 9 months ago
- Payments, Consultancy
Icon Solutions, a leading provider of technology solutions and instant payments consultancy, has successfully completed EBA Clearing’s testing procedure for SCT Inst payments – proving full compliance with the requirements of the RT1 infrastructure solution of EBA Clearing and the EPC Scheme Rulebook.
Manthan and Alnafitha Partner to Deliver Cutting Edge Analytics Solutions in Saudi Arabia
- 7 years 9 months ago
- Infrastructure
Manthan and Alnafitha team up to bring cutting edge analytics to the Saudi region. The partnership will help businesses accelerate their digital transformation.
Linedata Launches New Interface to DTCC’s CTM in Support of MiFID II and Industry Requirements
- 7 years 9 months ago
- Investment, Investment Management, Compliance
Linedata (Euronext Paris:LIN), the global solutions provider dedicated to the investment management and credit industries, today announced the extension of its 10-year strong partnership with The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the premier post-trade market infrastructure.
SimCorp and TradingScreen Form Front Office Alliance
- 7 years 9 months ago
- Investment Management
SimCorp, a leading provider of investment management solutions and services to the global financial services industry, and TradingScreen Inc. (TS), the leading multi-asset class Execution Management System (EMS) provider, today announce a new strategic alliance.
Abu Dhabi Global Market shortlists 11 startups for fintech innovation challenge
- 7 years 9 months ago
- Infrastructure
Abu Dhabi Global Market, the International Financial Centre in Abu Dhabi, in collaboration with KPMG, announced that 11 outstanding global FinTech firms have been shortlisted for the inaugural FinTech Abu Dhabi Innovation Challenge in October. The selected firms are currently undergoing an intensive five-week programme (which kicked-off on Sunday 17th September), which allows them to contextualise and present market-ready solutions tailored...
Retailers Experience Two Cyber Attacks Every Week
- 7 years 9 months ago
- Security
Retailers are responding to cyber attacks on average twice a week — this is according to the latest research from Zynstra, an enterprise-grade IT software provider. 16% of retailers said they experienced an attack or attempted attack every day, 11% said they responded 2-3 times per week, and 64% said once a month.
TORA Integrates OTAS Analytics to Help Clients Generate Alpha and Meet MiFID II Best Execution Requirements
- 7 years 9 months ago
- Investment Management
TORA, provider of the industry’s most advanced cloud-based order and execution management system (OEMS), and OTAS Technologies, a Liquidnet company and specialist provider of market analytics and trader intelligence, announced today that TORA has integrated OTAS Portfolio and Trading Analytics applications into its OEMS platform to help clients generate alpha and meet MiFID II best execution requirements. This development is the latest in a...
Ex-BT CEO Global Services Luis Alvarez joins Wandera as Strategic Advisor
- 7 years 9 months ago
- People Moves
Today, Wandera, the global mobile security provider, announces the appointment of internationally recognized telecommunications executive Luis Alvarez as Strategic Advisor, his first role since leaving BT. As CEO of BT Global Services, Luis Alvarez ran a $10bn business in networked IT services, serving around 7,000 corporate and public sector enterprises in over 170 countries worldwide. This includes every single organization in the FTSE 100 and...
Nasdaq Completes Acquisition of Sybenetix
- 7 years 9 months ago
- Foreign Exchange
Nasdaq today announced the completion of its acquisition of Sybenetix
BlockEx are Future of Finance Finalists
- 7 years 9 months ago
- Banking
We entered in the category of ‘Investment Banking 4.0’. The challenges in that area are: improving client experience, achieving faster regulatory compliance, using machine learning to improve the ways we interpret data, increasing post-trade efficiency, and facilitating client lending. BlockEx can substantially improve both regulatory compliance and post-trade efficiency, using the power of the blockchain.
