Idinvest and Creandum Invest $14 Miillion in Planday
- 8 years 9 months ago
- Investment, Investment Management
Planday, the workforce management platform for shift-based businesses, today announces that it has raised a $14 million Series B round of funding. The round was led by new investors Idinvest, and also included Creandum, the lead investor in Planday’s Series A round, SEB Private Equity, and angel investor Arthur Kosten, co-founder of Booking.com.
Financial Partners support Bluefin’s growth with $6 million investment
- 8 years 9 months ago
- Payments
Financial Partners, the private equity group of Napier Park Global Capital (US) LP (“Napier Park”), and Camden Partners have led a $6 million growth equity financing for Bluefin Payment Systems. Co-investors included Jeff Liesendahl, the former CEO of Accertify, and members of the management team. Napier Park is an alternative asset manager with approximately $6.2 billion in capital under management as of January 1st, 2016. Napier Park’s...
Business Intelligence and Reporting Solutions Launched Concentrix
- 8 years 9 months ago
- Trading Systems, Infrastructure
Concentrix is now making its Business Intelligence and Reporting (BIR) Services available as a broadly-based package.
Syntel Claims Banks Should Modernize Middle and Back-End Systems
- 8 years 9 months ago
- Banking, Infrastructure
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Thomson Reuters and FiscalNote Partner to Improve TRRI Solution
- 8 years 9 months ago
- Regulatory Standards
Thomson Reuters signed an agreement with FiscalNote, a provider of legislative and regulatory analytics and insight. The agreement supplies predictive legislative analytics to Thomson Reuters Regulatory Intelligence (TRRI), a global solution that provides clients a focused view allowing them to manage regulatory risk with confidence.
Lloyds Unveils Online Remortgage Service
- 8 years 9 months ago
- Banking, Infrastructure
Lloyds Bank has released an online remortgage service increasing choice and making it even more convenient for borrowers looking to move their mortgage to a better deal. Over 33,000 people changed mortgage lenders in the last month alone, with remortgage activity likely to continue as borrowers look to take advantage of the continuing low rate environment.
DTCC and Digital Asset develop distributed ledger solution for repo clearing
- 8 years 9 months ago
- Blockchain
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, and Digital Asset Holdings (Digital Asse
Mindtree to Launch IPv6 Stack and Smart Mesh Suite for Bluetooth Smart
- 8 years 9 months ago
- Infrastructure
Mindtree launches of its comprehensive IPv6 Stack and Smart Mesh Suite for Bluetooth Smart. The IPv6 Stack and Smart Mesh Suite will enable original equipment manufacturers (OEM) and semiconductor companies to add seamless cloud connectivity to their IoT products.
Lombard Risk COLLINE v 14.1 Adds New Regulatory Functionality
- 8 years 9 months ago
- Security and Compliance, Regulatory Standards
Lombard Risk COLLINE v 14.1 includes functionality which enables its client base to address the new standards and meet the global regulatory deadlines for the un-cleared margin rules. With five of the leading global investment banks impacted by the Phase 1 September 2016 deadline as clients, Lombard Risk made it a priority to go to market well in advance of the regulatory deadlines to enable these prestigious institutions the ability to prepare...
Teradata to Apply New Approach for Data Lake Deployment
- 8 years 9 months ago
- Data, Infrastructure
Teradata announced a new “design pattern” approach for data lake deployment which leverages years of experience in big data consulting and optimisation to help clients build and benefit from data lakes. The new design pattern approach is an industry first and positions Teradata at the forefront in helping business users, data scientists and IT professionals establish data lakes that produce exceptional business value.
Union Bank Will Benefit Varonis' Security Solutions
- 8 years 9 months ago
- Security, Data Protection
Union Bank UK PLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Union Bank of Nigeria PLC, needed better visibility into the different types of sensitive data its employees were storing and accessing across its file systems. Regulatory requirements necessitated that the bank’s IT department regularly audit and report on who was accessing sensitive data, when and where, but they had no way of doing so efficiently.
Dell Services becomes part of NTT DATA
- 8 years 9 months ago
- Infrastructure
NTT DATA, Inc. and Dell Inc. have entered into a definitive agreement for NTT DATA to acquire Dell Services, an IT services provider recognized for its depth in vertical industries and for its offerings around infrastructure services, cloud services, application services, and business process outsourcing. The agreement reflects NTT DATA’s continued focus on expanding its brand and leadership position globally.
EMVCo Adds Payment Account Reference to Payment Tokenisation
- 8 years 9 months ago
- Payments, Infrastructure
Global technical body EMVCo has released a bulletin updating the EMV® Payment Tokenisation Specification – Technical Framework to provide the payment community with a global, consistent framework to implement ‘Payment Account Reference’ (PAR). To be used by merchants, acquirers and payment processors, PAR can enhance security by limiting references to a cardholder’s primary account number (PAN) in the payment ecosystem.
Alceda and CBRE Clarion Securities Partner to Launch UCITS Fund
- 8 years 9 months ago
- Fund Management, Investment Management
Alceda and CBRE Clarion Securities to launch a UCITS fund vehicle focused on investing in global listed infrastructure securities. The Fund will be structured in the form of a UCITS vehicle on Alceda’s UCITS platform in Luxembourg, and is expected to be available for investment in the coming weeks. Today’s announcement underlines Alceda’s strategy to work with larger scale asset managers and supports CBRE Clarion Securities’ aim of makingits...
Bsquare and Amazon Web Services Provide Scalable Internet of Things Solutions
- 8 years 9 months ago
- IT Innovations, Infrastructure
Bsquare is working with Amazon Web Services to deliver robust, scalable Internet of Things (IoT) solutions to business and industrial customers. As a member of the AWS Partner Network (APN), Bsquare is now offering DataV™, a complete IoT software stack, powered by AWS IoT, a managed cloud platform.
