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.
ČSOB Opts for Wolters Kluwer’s OneSumX Software
- 8 years 2 months ago
- Treasury, Compliance
Československá obchodní banka (ČSOB), a leading Czech bank, has chosen Wolters Kluwer’s OneSumX software to support its Treasury department.
EQT VII to Acquire AutoStore
- 8 years 2 months ago
- M&A Deals
EQT VII to acquire Norway based AutoStore – a unique automated storage and retrieval system with more than 130 installations to date in 22 countries The company has experienced an annual topline growth of ~50% and an annual EBITDA growth of ~80% since 2013. EQT will support AutoStore in continuing its growth trajectory through further expansion internationally and through continued high focus on R&D and technology leadership
Visa Enters Into Agreement to Acquire CardinalCommerce
- 8 years 2 months ago
- M&A Deals
Visa announced an agreement to acquire CardinalCommerce, an industry leader in e-commerce payment authentication. The acquisition will enable more secure, seamless payments, whether made through a browser, mobile app, or connected device, and will help Visa’s clients and merchant partners accelerate digital commerce.
Moneyfarm Makes Senior Management Changes
- 8 years 2 months ago
- People Moves
Moneyfarm, the digital wealth manager, has today announced the appointment of a Chief Investment Officer and Chief Financial Officer. Following expansion across European savings and investment markets Moneyfarm’s industry leading team has more than doubled in 2016, with these two key hires brought on to support continued growth of the company and innovation of its consumer offering.
KBKG Reveals New Residential Cost Segregation Software
- 8 years 2 months ago
- Infrastructure
KBKG, a nationwide tax solutions firm headquartered in Pasadena, California, recently launched the Residential Cost Segregator™, an innovative cost segregation software which allows tax preparers and building owners to generate detailed cost segregation reports on smaller residential properties.
Putnam Investments Names Equity Research Leadership
- 8 years 2 months ago
- People Moves
Putnam Investments today announced the appointments of Samuel Cox and Kathryn B. Lakin as Co-Directors of Equity Research, roles in which they will directly oversee the work of nearly 35 analysts who cover every major industry, providing critical fundamental research and analysis for the firm’s broader equity platform. Cox and Lakin will report to Aaron M. Cooper, Chief Investment Officer - Equities, who previously served as Director of Global...
Grant Thornton Welcomes Ron Hartz to Advisory Practice
- 8 years 2 months ago
- Infrastructure
Ron Hartz has joined Grant Thornton LLP’s national Business Consulting and Technology Advisory practice as a director in the firm’s Philadelphia office – serving both regional and national clients. Hartz will apply his decades of financial and corporate leadership experience to helping companies align organizational and technology strategy. Among his proven strengths are budgeting and forecasting as well as capital management and financial...
Plusnet Mobile Research Unveils Half of Britons are Gripped with a Fear of No Data
- 8 years 2 months ago
- Security, Data, Infrastructure
New research by mobile phone provider, Plusnet Mobile, has found that half of the UK respondents polled (50%) would feel stressed and anxious if they ran out of mobile data, with almost 1 in 5 (16%) finding the prospect more stressful than an argument with their partner. The severity of FOND is directly related to how much consumers rely on mobile data to connect. The majority of Brits polled (71%) use mobile data every day for email, followed...
UK's Self-Employed Workers Waste 15 working Days a year Unpicking Personal and Business Income
- 8 years 2 months ago
- Infrastructure
A blurring of personal and business life is causing significant problems for the UK’s self-employed workforce, according to the first set of findings from the ‘Definitive Study of the Self-Employed’, commissioned by Intuit QuickBooks, the world’s leading online accounting software.
BillingTree Introduces myPayrazr IVR 3-5-7
- 8 years 2 months ago
- Payments, IT Innovations
Wirefund Research Reveals 55% of SMEs Don’t Understand Personal Guarantees in Business Loans
- 8 years 2 months ago
- Security
SMEs are signing up to livelihood threatening loan conditions, ignorantly, a report exposes today. The research by Wirefund, an SME loan provider, reveals that the majority of SME owners have no idea what a personal guarantee is, despite it being a requirement from banks and many alternative finance providers when lending to businesses.
Le Groupement d'intérêt Economique des Cartes Bancaires Deploys Gemalto PURE Solution
- 8 years 2 months ago
- Payments, Security, Infrastructure
Gemalto, the world leader in digital security, has been selected by "Le Groupement d'intérêt Economique des Cartes Bancaires (CB)" in France to supply the technology of its PURE payment solution for mobiles. PURE is a white label payment solution compliant with international standards, used today by 27 national payment schemes and large retailers in the world. PURE brings full independence and sovereignty for local payment issuers, with proven...
