Workday Announces Fiscal 2019 First Quarter Financial Results
- 7 years 8 months ago
- Cloud
Workday, Inc. (NASDAQ:WDAY), a leader in enterprise cloud applications for
'AirPod' aims to revolutionise travellers airport experience
- 7 years 8 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 8 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 8 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 8 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 8 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 8 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 8 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...
Intelligent Environments to rebrand as ieDigital
- 7 years 8 months ago
- Infrastructure
After a comprehensive brand review, Intelligent Environments, the global provider of financial services technology, is set to become ieDigital.
Quint launches company focussed on real-time data insights
- 7 years 8 months ago
- Data
Qunit Group, one of the leading fintech companies in the UK, has launched Infinian, a new data company, to leverage and commercilaise the Groups vast real time data assets. Infinian provides highly insightful data to financial services business, fintech companies and some of the biggest global data businesses and credit bureaus. The company’s suite of products enables its customers to enhance the quality of their credit decisions and existing...
SmartCash Announces Success of Community-Approved Initiatives Funded by SmartHive Project Treasury
- 7 years 8 months ago
- Cash management
SmartCash, a community governance, cooperation and growth focused crypto-asset created via blockchain technology, today provides a recap of its completed community initiatives. Each project was made possible via the SmartHive Project Treasury, which is funded by a portion of the block rewards and then directed via SmartCash holders who participate in SmartVoting. Building the Future
FundRequest Launches a Marketplace that Rewards Developers for Open Source Contributions
- 7 years 8 months ago
- Blockchain
FundRequest, a new platform for incentivizing open-source development, has officially launched their first product: a blockchain powered integration with GitHub that allows developers to directly solve open source project issues and be rewarded. The platform integrates directly with GitHub, allowing projects to fund ‘issues’ that developers can solve and be rewarded in cryptocurrency.
Bayern LB uses valantic’s Software for Electronic Swap Trading on Bloomberg
- 7 years 8 months ago
- Trading Systems
The Bayerische Landesbank (BayernLB) now uses valantic’s (previously icubic) software solutions for electronic trading of derivative financial instruments (swaps) via Bloomberg. This is realised with the innovative and versatile software iQbonds. iQbonds enables the Bayerische Landesbank to fulfil all regulatory requirements according to MiFID II and to realise numerous improvements at the same time. The implementation phase has progressed...
Moorwand Partners with Open Payments Cloud
- 7 years 8 months ago
- Payments, IT Innovations
International payments company Moorwand has become the first fintech to offer its services to payment innovators through Open Payments Cloud (OPC).
French Capital Will Host Blockchain & Bitcoin Conference France – Large Blockchain Event with Top Experts
- 7 years 8 months ago
- Blockchain
On July 18, top crypto experts from huge international corporations will gather in Paris at the Blockchain & Bitcoin Conference France – large-scale event dedicated to cryptocurrencies, Blockchain and ICO. The meeting will include conference and demozone. Presentations from leading specialists and expositions of the innovative solutions from blockchain-based startups are waiting for the guests. Blockchain in France: Big Changes
