ALTX East Africa Goes Live with its High Tech Exchange
- 9 years 6 months ago
- Security, Infrastructure
ALTX East Africa Ltd goes live with its high tech exchange. The team led by CEO, Joseph Kitamirike has built the exchange since 2013, and spent most of the last eight months optimising their systems, aiming to deliver a world class securities exchange facility. The platform obtained regulatory approval in 2014 and depository approval was secured in 2015.
Bibby Transportation Finance Appoints Ivan Cook as Business Development Officer
- 9 years 6 months ago
- People Moves
Bibby Transportation Finance (BTF), a subsidiary of Bibby Financial Services, announces the addition of Ivan Cook as Business Development Officer. Cook rejoins BTF to focus on providing freight factoring and asset-based lending solutions to customers as the company accelerates its North America growth strategy.
Samsung Pay Continues its Global Expansion in Puerto Rico
- 9 years 6 months ago
- Payments
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. announced today that it is bringing Samsung Pay—the most widely accepted mobile payment system—to Puerto Rico. Starting today, Samsung Pay will support eligible credit cards from Banco Popular, Puerto Rico’s largest bank, and will be available on AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint and Claro networks in Puerto Rico.
Daon’s FIDO Quick Goes Live
- 9 years 6 months ago
- Authentication Technology, Infrastructure
Daon, a global leader in mobile biometric authentication technology, launched a
Encentus Federal Credit Union Opts Fiserv's Portico Technology Suite
- 9 years 6 months ago
- Banking
Fiserv, a leading global provider of financial services technology solutions, announced today that Encentus Federal Credit Union, based in Tulsa, Oklahoma, has selected the Portico® core account processing platform with an integrated solution suite that includes digital banking and lending services.
Neyber Chosen By Team Rewards
- 9 years 6 months ago
- Infrastructure
Neyber, the leading provider of salary deducted loans, has been chosen by the employee benefit platform provider Team Rewards to provide loans across its UK employee customer base.
Andrew Collings Joins Neyber as Head of Sales
- 9 years 6 months ago
- People Moves
Neyber, a provider of financial employee benefits, today announces the appointment of Andrew Collings to the newly created role of Head of Sales. Andrew has over 20 years’ experience in driving sales of employee benefits and financial services across the private and public sectors. He will join Neyber’s senior management team and bring expertise in client acquisition and strategic business development.
SolidX Introduces Enterprise-Grade Blockchain Identity Software
- 9 years 6 months ago
- Blockchain
SolidX Partners Inc., an innovative blockchain technology company, announced the launch of Vida, the world's first full-stack identity solution using blockchain technology. Vida provides enterprises with robust identity management capabilities without the need to hold personal identifying information. Vida is the first service of its kind to provide one identity across numerous applications, streamlining permissioned access to data and services...
Hewlett Packard Enterprise OpenNFV Partner Program Welcomes Italtel
- 9 years 6 months ago
- Infrastructure
Italtel, a multinational corporation specializing in Network Functions Virtualization (NFV), Software Defined Networking (SDN) and All-IP communications, today announced it has joined the Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) OpenNFV Partner Program as an official Application Partner to help Communications Service Providers(CSPs) launch new services faster, easier and more cost-effectively through the virtualization of their network functions.
IBM and Crédit Mutuel Arkéa complete first blockchain project
- 9 years 6 months ago
- Blockchain
IBM and Crédit Mutuel Arkéa announced today the completion of their first blockchain project to improve the bank's ability to verify customer identity. The result of this successful pilot is an operational permissioned blockchain network that provides a view of customer identity to enable compliance with Know Your Customer (KYC) requirements. This demonstrates the disruptive capabilities of blockchain technology beyond common transaction-...
Chubb Strengthens its Cyber Risk Team with New Hires
- 9 years 6 months ago
- People Moves
Chubb today announced that it is strengthening the cyber risk team serving its London wholesale and UK and Ireland retail clients, with the appointment of two dedicated underwriters. With cyber risk insurance demand expected to increase 150% by 20201, the appointments reflect the company's focus on further building its technical expertise and leadership position in this emerging risk class, to help meet client needs.
CLS Group Welcomes Wells Fargo as a Settlement Member
- 9 years 6 months ago
- Foreign Exchange
CLS Group (CLS), a leading provider of risk management and operational services for the global foreign exchange (FX) market, today announced that Wells Fargo has joined as a settlement member. Wells Fargo joins 64 other settlement member banks in becoming a direct participant in CLS’s settlement and risk mitigation system – which settles approximately USD5 trillion a day on behalf of its clients.
Seamless Makes SEQR Contactless Using NFC Technology
- 9 years 6 months ago
- Payments
Nasdaq Stockholm-listed Seamless mobile payment solution SEQR is launching contactless payments in Sweden using NFC technology (Near Field Communication). Contactless makes it possible to pay with SEQR at point of sale (POS) terminals that support NFC which is featured on almost all modern terminals, Consequently it is now possible to pay with SEQR in any store that supports the functionality in Sweden or abroad, even if a retailer has no...
AfDB and ASEA Sign MoU to Develop Africa’s Capital Markets
- 9 years 6 months ago
- Financial, Infrastructure
The African Development Bank (AfDB) and the African Securities Exchanges Association (ASEA) signed a 5-year Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to amplify the impact of their strategically aligned joint efforts to promote resources mobilization to fund Africa’s economic growth. This MoU will provide a collaborative framework for harmonizing and coordinating the efforts of AfDB, the premier international development financial institution for Africa...
IBM to Establish Blockchain Innovation Center in Singapore
- 9 years 6 months ago
- Blockchain
IBM plans to establish the first IBM Center for Blockchain Innovation in Singapore.
