Thomson Reuters' Eikon Messenger Registration Number Soars
- 8 years 5 months ago
- Infrastructure
Thomson Reuters has seen a significant increase in new Eikon Messenger account registrations after the announcement that Yahoo will discontinue support for its legacy messaging and API service on August 5, 2016. Global energy company Gazprom Marketing and Trading Limited and Dong Energy, Denmark’s largest energy company, are the latest firms to publicly endorse Eikon Messenger following similar endorsements from Europe’s top energy brokers and...
DynamicAction Secures $15 Million in Latest Round of Funding and Forms Alliance with Accenture
- 8 years 5 months ago
- Fund Management, Cloud
DynamicAction announced it has secured $15 million in new funding and entered into an alliance relationship with Accenture. Lead investors in the round include Accenture and West Coast Capital.
Western Union Chooses Box’s Content Management Platform
- 8 years 5 months ago
- Infrastructure
Box announced that Western Union, a leader in global payment services, has selected Box’s content management platform to centralize content and drive new ways to work in the cloud. With Box, Western Union is furthering its IT innovation and transformation to digitize business processes and create highly customized content experiences.
Huawei Launches Cloud Open Labs, Cooperating with Leading Global Operators, Industry Organizations and Partners
- 8 years 5 months ago
- Cloud, IT Innovations
Huawei launched its Cloud Open Labs in the presence of 19 leading global operators, industry organizations and partners, including the Linux Foundation, Open Platform for NFV (OPNFV), China Association of Communication Enterprises, Accenture, Red Hat, VMware and Wind River. As part of Huawei's commitment to open, evolution and innovation, the Cloud Open Labs – with interconnected facilities across four labs – aim to enable operators' business...
Wirecard Cooperates with O2 to Provide Mobile Point-of-Sale Solutions in the Czech Republic
- 8 years 5 months ago
- Payments, Infrastructure
Wirecard, one of the leading payment service providers, is now working together with O2 Czech Republic to offer a unified solution to all retailers in the Czech Republic. Thanks to the new cooperation, O2 as the largest telecommunication provider in the Czech Republic will offer their merchants a product named eKasa which is a fully online, tablet based fiscal till system together with credit card payment transaction services. With this, every...
Avelacom Expands its Co-Location Footprint by Setting up in Singapore Exchange’s
- 8 years 5 months ago
- Trading Systems
A new partnership between Avelacom and SGX aims to improve accessibility of low latency applications that are in high demand among hedge funds, rading firms, investments banks both within and outside the APAC region.
NEO Exchange Selects OneTickCloud Data and Analytics Solution
- 8 years 5 months ago
- Data, Data Management
OneMarketData, LLC, a leader in tick data management and analytics, today announced that Aequitas NEO Exchange Inc. (“NEO Exchange”) has implemented OneTickCloud, a data and advanced analytics service based on its flagship platform, OneTick.
Banks Cutting Business Lending Following Brexit Damaging SMEs
- 8 years 5 months ago
- Banking
Virgin Money’s announcement that it has shelved plans to move into business banking due to economic uncertainty following Brexit sent shockwaves through the banking and SME sector on Wednesday. This, coupled with a letter issued by Royal Bank of Scotland and NatWest to their 1.3 million business customers warning if the Bank of England reduces the already low (0.5%) base interest rate, businesses would be charged to deposit money at the bank,...
Petabyte-Scale Compliance Archiving Solution Now Available with Industry-Leading Storage Density
- 8 years 5 months ago
- Security and Compliance, Infrastructure
iTernity’s Compliant Archive Software (iCAS), combined with Scality RING software and Dell SD7000-S storage servers, helps reduce the cost and risks involved in managing rapidly growing amounts of unstructured data. Now organizations can deploy an ultra-dense file and object storage solution for large scale data archives to meet their retention policies and comply with evolving regulatory requirements.
Pitney Bowes Collaborates with ActivePath to Bring New Digital Design and Delivery Capabilities to Market
- 8 years 5 months ago
- Infrastructure
Pitney Bowes (NYSE:PBI), a global technology company that provides innovative products and solutions to power commerce today announced a new relationship with ActivePath Solutions Ltd., a developer of interactive digital communication design and delivery platforms. The ActivePath technology will be integrated with EngageOne and e-Messaging to form a new product – EngageOne Digital Designer and EngageOne Digital Delivery.
RiskSense Closes $7 Million Round of Funding Led by Paladin Capital Group
- 8 years 5 months ago
- Investment
RiskSense®, Inc., the pioneer and market leader in pro-active cyber risk management, today announced that it is closing a $7 Million round of funding led by Paladin Capital Group, with participation from Sun Mountain Capital, EPIC Ventures, as well as other strategic and private investors. The investment will help RiskSense continue its rapid growth by expanding its sales and marketing efforts, as well as broadening and accelerating product...
Cashing in on Cashless Payments: Rise of Global Consumer Brings Surging Demand, Disruptive Competition to Industry in Flux
- 8 years 5 months ago
- Payments
From Shanghai to São Paulo, Dhaka to Dar es Salaam, tarnished coins and crumpled banknotes are rapidly giving way to a frictionless vision of swipes, clicks, taps, and apps. A report released today finds the boom of mass consumption in major developing markets—and mobile internet access everywhere—fueling a surge in demand for new methods of cashless payment. This is transforming the industry as new competitors and business models rush in to...
Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles Implements PaymentExpress
- 8 years 5 months ago
- Payments
Grant Street Group announced that the State of Ohio has implemented PaymentExpress, Grant Street’s electronic payment processing platform, as the new point-of-sale solution for the Department of Public Safety/Bureau of Motor Vehicles (BMV). The Ohio BMV now offers citizens the ability to make payments with credit or debit cards at 191 Deputy Registrar locations and 6 Reinstatement Centers throughout the State.
DHgate, Facebook, Tencent, New Zealand Post and UnionPay to Form APEC CBET Network
- 8 years 5 months ago
- Financial, Infrastructure
DHgate.com, Facebook, Tencent, UnionPay, the New Zealand Post and over 150 APEC Business Advisory Council Members, industry players and academics united to form the APEC CBET Network, in order to address the need to provide capacity building to small-and-medium enterprises, so they can utilize cross-border e-commerce to access global markets.
Banking Industry Fights Back Against Cyber-Fraud
- 8 years 5 months ago
- Banking, Security
Cyber-attacks are a daily occurrence, with bank websites being one of the prime targets. An industry-led consortium of major banking associations is helping banks fight back with a new secure extension reserved exclusively for banks, appropriately called .BANK
