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Starling creates Google Play in-app

7 years 7 months ago
Banking

Starling Bank, the leading mobile-only bank recently voted Britain’s Best Bank 2018, today brings its customers an enhancement to Google Pay, the fast, simple way to pay in millions of places - online, in stores - and more.

FMSB publishes statement of good practice on information sharing in fixed income markets

7 years 7 months ago
Consultancy

The FICC Markets Standards Board (“FMSB”) today publishes a Transparency Draft of a new Statement of Good Practice on Information and Confidentiality for fixed income and commodities markets.

Breaches in Automated Expense Management Cause Fraud Spikes

7 years 7 months ago
Security and Compliance, Security

Age, job level and reporting procedures all correlate strongly with the propensity to commit expense fraud, according to data from Chrome River Technologies, Inc., a global leader in expense and invoice automation solutions. Based on a survey of more than 1,200 business travelers in the U.S., U.K. and Australia, conducted in April and May 2018, expense fraud could potentially cost American organizations $1.9 billion per year.

Probanx and Sequrest partner to create collective cybersecurity tech

7 years 7 months ago
IT Innovations

Sequrest, the cybersecurity specialist has announced that it has signed an agreement with Probanx, supplier of web-based solutions to the banking sector.

JCB expands to Russia

7 years 7 months ago
Banking

JSC Russian Agriculture Bank ("RSHB") and JCB International Co., Ltd., the international operations subsidiary of JCB Co., Ltd., are pleased to announce the launch of JCB card acceptance on the RSHB ATM and POS terminal network.

Moscow’s Innovation Hub chooses CIPURSE Specification for Fare Collection Solution

7 years 7 months ago
Technical

Global technical association, OSPT Alliance, today announces that its open, non-proprietary CIPURSE™ standard has been selected for a new automated fare collection solution trial across Moscow’s Skolkovo bus route. The trial will provide a secure and cost-effective ticketing solution for travelers between Moscow City’s business district and the city’s famed start-up and innovation hub, Skolkovo.

Workday Announces Fiscal 2019 First Quarter Financial Results

7 years 7 months ago
Cloud

Workday, Inc. (NASDAQ:WDAY), a leader in enterprise cloud applications for

'AirPod' aims to revolutionise travellers airport experience

7 years 7 months ago
Technical

AirPod, the cutting-edge airport sleeping pod, today announces the launch of its beta prototype, in preparation for the first commercial trial to be implemented in EU airports in autumn 2018.

Financial services investment in customer experience questioned as annual complaints rise

7 years 7 months ago
Investment Management

The total number of complaints against financial service institutions has increased, despite investment in customer service processes. Complaints data from Financial Ombudsman Service revealed a rise from 1,456,396 between 2017/2018 up from 1,394,379 the year before.

DSB Announces Technology Advisory Committee Membership

7 years 7 months ago
Infrastructure

The Derivatives Service Bureau today announced the members of its newly formed Technology Advisory Committee (TAC). The mission of the TAC is to provide guidance and recommendations to the DSB Board on technology implementation and investment to support the DSB role as a critical market infrastructure for providing financial instrument identifiers. As part of the DSB governance structure, it will also enable the DSB to sample industry sentiment...

Mastercard launches Accelerate: continuing to unleash the potential of Fintechs

7 years 7 months ago
Payments, FinTech StartUps

Mastercard today announces the creation of Accelerate, a new programme to drive growth at scale for the fast-evolving FinTech industry. The initiative is designed to support the ambitions of players in the FinTech sector through tailored support arrangements including access to insight, tools, technology and investment to support innovation. Designed to operate alongside the successful Start Path programme, Accelerate broadens and deepens...

GlobalData announces OTT voice application penetration in Latin America will more than double to 2020, while service revenues decline

7 years 7 months ago
Data

Mobile voice service revenue in Latin America (LATAM) will decline from $33.7bn in 2017 to $27.1bn by 2020, with a negative Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 7.0% between 2017 and 2020, due to the growing adoption of over-the-top (OTT) voice applications such as Skype, WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger, according to

Simon Hunt joined Mastercard as head of cybersecurity solutions unit

7 years 7 months ago
People Moves

Mastercard today announced that leading cybersecurity expert Simon Hunt will join the company as executive vice president to head its cybersecurity solutions unit. Hunt’s role will be to further enhance Mastercard security capabilities for cardholders, customers, merchants and other stakeholders in light of the growing cybercrime threat.

Dianrong supply chain finance offering added to R3 Corda

7 years 7 months ago
Infrastructure

Dianrong, a leader in online marketplace lending in China, and R3, a global enterprise software firm, today announced that Dianrong’s next version of its supply chain finance solution will be made available on Corda, R3’s blockchain platform for finance and business. Dianrong has been a pioneer in leveraging fintech and blockchain to improve supply chain finance for small businesses. The new Corda app (“CorDapp”) will further expand Dianrong’s...