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ACCESS TO LIQUIDITY DOMINATES DECISION-MAKING PROCESS FOR FIXED INCOME FIRMS

8 years 3 weeks ago
Trading Systems

Liquidnet, the global institutional trading network, today published the results of its Fixed Income Institutional Voice Survey, with US and European institutional traders revealing that “sourcing liquidity” is the most important factor when selecting a trading venue.

Jennifer Powers to join Global Infrastructure Partners as a Partner and Chair of GIP's Credit Business

8 years 3 weeks ago
Infrastructure

Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP), the leading, independent global infrastructure investment firm, announced today that Jennifer Powers will join GIP in September as a Partner and Chair of GIP's Credit Business. Ms. Powers will work closely with GIP Partner Jon Bram and GIP CAPS Fund Managing Partners Reiner Boehning and Steve Cheng to build out and expand GIP's Credit Business into a market leader in providing financing for infrastructure...

Additiv Snaps Up Senior PwC Partner to Head up Its Solutions Unit

8 years 3 weeks ago
SaaS

Zurich-based additiv, a leading provider of digitalisation solutions to the financial services industry, has hired Thomas Achhorner, former Head of Digital Financial Services at PwC Australia. Achhorner assumes the role of Global Head of Solutions, taking responsibility for additiv’s Software-as-a-Service offering (SaaS) and leading a team of 20 product managers, consultants and experts.

Datalliance Enhances Cloud-based Supply Chain Platform

8 years 3 weeks ago
Data

Datalliance's latest update to its cloud-based Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) platform makes it easier for manufacturers of consumer or industrial products to manage inventory replenishment for retailers and distributors. These enhancements - driven by feedback from its global user base and Datalliance's vision for the future of VMI - focus on making the user-experience even more flexible and intuitive.

Teaming for Better ICO & Crypto-Crowdfunding Experience

8 years 3 weeks ago
Cryptocurrencies, Crowdfunding

COSS, a one-stop solution venue for cryptocurrency adopters, has established a strategic partnership with FundYurselfNow (FYN), a blockchain-based crowdfunding platform.

Kyriba Corp. Delivers Record 43 Percent 1H 2017 Sales Growth

8 years 3 weeks ago
Cash management, Treasury, Risk Management

Kyriba Corp., the global leader in cloud-based treasury, cash and risk management solutions, today announced record growth for the first half of 2017, charting a 43 percent year-over-year increase in sales bookings. Satisfying the demand for a comprehensive, cloud-based approach to treasury and finance, the company added more than 100 new clients during the period.

Willis Towers Watson Reveals Cyber Work Diagnostic Tool

8 years 3 weeks ago
Security

Willis Towers Watson, the leading global advisory, broking and solutions company, has launched a new cyber work diagnostic tool designed to help organizations assess their cyber readiness with emphases on talent management, emerging skills and roles and defining the requirements of cyber work.

Fast-Growing Retail Technology Business Ecrebo Appoints Hannah Lowry as CFO

8 years 3 weeks ago
People Moves

Ecrebo, the point of sale marketing specialist, whose clients include some of the UK’s largest retailers including M&S and Waitrose, continues its investment in new executive talent with the appointment of Hannah Lowry as CFO. Lowry has more than ten years’ financial experience with multinational organisations in Europe and the Middle East.

MoneYou Integrates Mitek’s Identity Solutions for Real-Time, Compliant, Digital Onboarding

8 years 3 weeks ago
Payments, Security

Mitek (NASDAQ: MITK, www.miteksystems.com), a global leader in mobile capture and identity verification software solutions, today announced that MoneYou, the fully-digital consumer banking subsidiary of ABN AMRO, is using its Mobile Verify® and

CloudMargin and South Africa’s First Tri-Party Collateral Agent - Strate Collateral Management – Bring Unprecedented Automation, Efficiencies to South African OTC Derivatives Participants

8 years 3 weeks ago
Cloud

South African market participants can now enjoy unprecedented automation and straight-through processing by leveraging newly available, integrated cloud-based technology to exchange tri-party SWIFT1 messaging for collateral instructions, settlement and confirmations. CloudMargin, the multi-award winning creator of the world’s first web-based collateral and margin management solution, and Strate, the South African Central Securities Depository (...

Secure Customer Onboarding

8 years 3 weeks ago
Payments

US prepaid card and P2P payment services provider Cascade Financial Technology Corp has signed a 3-year contract to power customer onboarding and KYC with 2ndgeneration ID authentication and onboarding automation. AU10TIX Secure Customer onboarding (SCO) cloud service that already powers major players across financial services markets, is known not only to increase KYC robustness and fraud protection but also improve customer conversion success...

Aeriandi expands secure voice services to offer NICE Nexidia Analytics

8 years 3 weeks ago
Security and Compliance, Security, Data Protection, Fraud Detection, Compliance, Regulatory Standards, AML and KYC, Security, Authentication Technology

Aeriandi, a leading provider of secure voice services and NICE, a global leader in cloud and on-premises enterprise software solutions, including advanced customer analytics, have announced a strategic partnership. Under the terms of the partnership, Aeriandi’s customers will have access to an easy to implement speech analytics solution that can analyse both real-time and archived calls.

Kickstart Accelerate Chooses 30 Promising Startups for Its 2017 Programme

8 years 3 weeks ago
FinTech StartUps

Kickstart Accelerator, one of Europe’s largest multi-corporate, zero-equity technology accelerators, has today announced its shortlist of 30 startups for its second cohort. The startups will take part in an 11-week programme, from 4 September to 17 November 2017, and will be divided into the four verticals based in Zurich – FinTech (10), Food (6), Smart Cities and Robotics (9) & Intelligent Systems (5). Please see below for some key stats:

69% of UK Boards Neglect GDPR Compliance

8 years 3 weeks ago
Compliance

69% of board-level executives are neglecting to ensure the UK businesses they run will comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), according to new research from Calligo, a world-leading cloud solution provider. The figures were in a survey of 500 IT decision-makers in companies with more than 100 employees and £15 million turnover, examining how businesses are preparing for the new regulation.