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OCC Makes Management Changes

8 years 2 months ago
People Moves

OCC, the world’s largest equity derivatives clearing organization, today announced three additions to its senior management team.

Industry Experts Gather in IFINSEC Financial Sector IT Security Conference and Exhibition

8 years 2 months ago
Security, Financial, Infrastructure

IFINSEC Financial Sector IT Security Conference and Exhibition (www.ifinsec.com) will be held on 14-15 November 2017 in Istanbul, Turkey. IFINSEC is a global, niche and dedicated conference focusing on IT Security technologies and solutions for financial sector.

New Weapon Against the Shadow Economy - Tax Authorities to Receive VAT Information in Real Time

8 years 2 months ago
Infrastructure

Tieto and the Federation of Finnish Financial Services have presented an initiative on digitalized value-added tax (VAT) reporting. The new standard would allow companies to report VAT information faster and facilitate real-time reporting. Adopting a uniform standard could help to increase European tax revenues by up to EUR 160 billion a year.

SGX Appoints Michael Luk as Head of Fixed Income Origination and Sales

8 years 2 months ago
People Moves

Singapore Exchange (SGX) is pleased to appoint Michael Luk as the new Head of Fixed Income Origination and Sales, effective 1 January 2017. Reporting to Mr Chew Sutat, SGX Head of Equities & Fixed Income, Mr Luk is tasked with spearheading the growth of SGX’s fixed income businesses through deeper and broader relationships with market participants. This includes extending SGX regional leadership in bond listings and driving institutional...

Comtrade Digital Services Revolutionises Payments World with Viber Banking Platform

8 years 2 months ago
Payments, Banking

Comtrade Digital Services, the leading software engineering services and solutions provider, today announced that it has created an automated banking platform for one of the world’s leading messaging apps, Viber.

ProSight Specialty Insurance Wins Gold and Silver in Best in Biz Awards 2016

8 years 2 months ago
Insurance

ProSight Specialty® Insurance has been named a gold winner in Most Innovative Company of the Year and a silver award winner in Executive Leadership Team of the Year in Best in Biz Awards, the only independent business awards program judged by members of the press and industry analysts.

FIS Helps Drive Privacy Compliance for Global Financial Institutions

8 years 2 months ago
Security, Data

FIS™, a global leader in financial services technology, and Trunomi, a provider of customer consent management and permissioned personal data-sharing technology, are working to turn the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) into an opportunity for financial institutions to improve customer service while complying with the new law.

Mastercard to Bring Apple Pay to Spanish Customers and Cardholders

8 years 2 months ago
Payments

Mastercard announced it will bring its Spanish customers and cardholders Apple Pay, which is transforming mobile payments as an easy, secure and private way to pay that’s fast and convenient. Mastercard is working with several partners in Spain, including Banco Santander as the first bank, Carrefour as the first retailer and Ticket Restaurant as the first prepaid company to join this launch offering consumers the ability to use their Mastercard...

FIS Customer Experience Suite Delivers Digital Innovation

8 years 2 months ago
Core Banking

FIS™, a global leader in financial technology, announced a significant new core banking technology innovation targeted for financial institutions. The FIS Customer Experience Suite transforms a bank’s customer-generated data by quantifying the value of each customer’s relationship. It then applies dynamic pricing and product bundling, and uses the bank’s own customer behavior data to predict needs and deliver targeted offers.

LexisNexis Risk Solutions Distinguished at The Compliance Register Platinum Awards

8 years 2 months ago
Risk Management

LexisNexis® Risk Solutions, a global big data, technology and analytics company, is today pleased to announce the retention of the Best Financial Crime Intelligence and Research Data award at the acclaimed Compliance Register Platinum Awards 2016.

Ingenico ePayments Reports Record Breaking Online Sales during Black Friday Weekend

8 years 2 months ago
Payments

Ingenico ePayments, the online and mobile division of Ingenico Group, today reported that it processed 29% more payments during this year’s Black Friday weekend compared to the same weekend in 2015. Over the course of the weekend, starting on Thanksgiving Day (24th November) in the US and finishing on Cyber Monday (28th November), Ingenico ePayments twice broke its record for most payments processed in a single day.

Gruppo Veneto Banca Activates Jiffy on Its Bankup Mobile Banking App

8 years 2 months ago
Mobile Banking

From today, customers of Veneto Banca and its subsidiary Banca Apulia have at their disposal a new “Person to Person” (P2P) payments service that is secure, simple and extremely fast - “Jiffy” - a word which refers to the unit of measurement corresponding to the time it takes for light to travel one centimeter.

Juuri Partners Invests Attido

8 years 2 months ago
Investment

The Finnish private equity company Juuri Partners invests in IT company Attido, which develops financial automation solutions. The company’s new solutions help companies to increase the efficiency of financial administration, improve the accuracy of reporting by automating the routines and free resources for higher value-add work. The estimated value of the global market is 17 billion dollars.

Raiffeisen Bank Group Enhances Customer Experience with Diebold Nixdorf ATMs

8 years 2 months ago
ATMs

Raiffeisen Bank Group, Austria's largest financial institution, is enhancing the consumer experience with 1,200 new Diebold Nixdorf automated teller machines (ATMs) equipped with advanced bill payment and contactless functionalities such as quick response (QR) codes and near field communication (NFC) readers.