EMVCo Adds Payment Account Reference to Payment Tokenisation
- 9 years 10 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
- 9 years 10 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
- 9 years 10 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.
MBNA's Customers Will Benefit from Android Pay
- 9 years 10 months ago
- Payments, Retail Banking
Credit card expert MBNA will bring Google’s Android Pay to its customers as the countdown to its UK launch, scheduled for later in 2016, begins. UK contactless spend increased steeply in 2015, more than trebling to reach £7.75 billion. With nearly one in eight card transactions now using contactless technology*, Android Pay will be the latest option for tech-savvy consumers who are forgoing not only cash but cards in favour of mobile wallet...
ADX Provides Cash Dividends to Union National
- 9 years 10 months ago
- Foreign Exchange, Banking
Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (ADX) has distributed the first cash dividends on behalf of one of its listed companies through distributing the dividends of the shareholders of the Union National Bank on the Bank’s behalf. Thus, the Union National Bank became the first listed company in the United Arab Emirates to distribute the cash dividends through Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange.
Tavant helps Sierra Pacific Mortgage in Technology Transformation Roadmap
- 9 years 10 months ago
- Transaction Banking, BPM
Tavant Technologies has partnered with Sierra Pacific Mortgage (SPM) to help design and implement a technology transformation roadmap.
SWIFT and CIPS Co Partner for a Cross-border Interbank Payment System Cooperation
- 9 years 10 months ago
- Payments, Infrastructure
SWIFT has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with China International Payment Service Corp., (CIPS Co.). The MOU sets out plans for a strategic collaboration to develop China’s Cross-border Interbank Payment System (CIPS) using SWIFT as the secure, efficient and reliable channel to connect CIPS with SWIFT’s global user community. SWIFT Chief Executive of Asia Pacific and EMEA, Alain Raes and CIPS Executive Director, Li Wei signed the MOU...
Xerox and Tradeshift to Provide Real-time Procurement and Accounts Payable Services
- 9 years 10 months ago
- Payments, Infrastructure
Xerox today announced a global reseller agreement with Tradeshift to help customers improve their financial performance by giving them real-time visibility into their procurement and accounts payable processes.
JAVELIN Unveils Mobile Wallet Analysis Model
- 9 years 10 months ago
- Payments
As consumer awareness of mobile wallets has risen dramatically, financial institutions have a perfect opportunity to stake a claim in this market. As the barriers to wallet adoption drop, and issues with merchant adoption and consumer hesitation lessen, FI-branded wallets stand ready to reap the benefits. Today, JAVELIN released,What’s in your Mobile Wallet?, and introduced JAVELIN’s S.C.O.R.E. wallet analysis model for assessing and comparing...
Verilume to Join Intralinks Family
- 9 years 10 months ago
- Cloud, Infrastructure
Intralinks acquires Verilume, a Boston-based cloud infrastructure company. The acquisition builds on Intralinks’ strategy to provide its clients with business solutions for high-value content collaboration across boundaries, while also meeting stringent global data governance and security requirements. Verilume reduces the complexity of deploying and managing distributed cloud environments to deliver in-country or regional data locality and...
FIS Received BPO Excellence Awards at Asia Outsourcing Congress
- 9 years 10 months ago
- BPM, Infrastructure
FIS has been honoured with multiple recognitions at the prestigious BPO Excellence Awards at the Asia Outsourcing Congress. This year, FIS took home more recognitions than any other company, including top billing for Use of Technology for Operations Excellence Award, Award for Excellence in Value Creation, Award for Excellence in Customer Service in the Outsourcing Industry, and Award for Excellence in Improvement & Innovation. Additional ...
NICE Actimize Invites to Technology-focused Webinar Series
- 9 years 10 months ago
- Infrastructure
NICE Actimize is launching a no-cost, technology-focused Webinar Series beginning April 20, 2016. As a continuation of its “Compliance of...” and “Emerging Threats” webinar series which recently concluded, this new three-part series titled “The Changing Face of Anti-Money Laundering Technology” will focus on how Big Data, analytics and business intelligence technologies are working to change the face of anti-money laundering efforts by exploring...
Eight Fintech Startups Get Investment Boost from BNP Paribas
- 9 years 10 months ago
- Investment, FinTech StartUps
BNP Paribas selected eight fintech startups to take part in a four month accelerator programme that will see each firm work on developing products and services for specific areas of the bank's business.
Lombard Risk Releases SA-CCR Reporting Solution
- 9 years 10 months ago
- Compliance, Regulatory Standards
Lombard Risk, a leading provider of regulatory reporting solutions to the financial services industry, launches an important update to its AgileREPORTER solution covering SA-CCR, the standardised approach for measuring counterparty credit risk exposures. SA-CCR, the most pressing of the ongoing Basel reforms, replaces the Current Exposure Method (CEM) and Standardised Method (SM).
GFT Group Appoints Tim Brazier as Head of Application Simplification Practice
- 9 years 10 months ago
- People Moves
Tim Brazier has joined GFT as Head of the newly created Application Simplification Practice. Tim joins GFT from the Royal Bank of Scotland, where he was MD of Application Simplification. In this role, he managed a large scale programme designed to simplify the application architecture across the bank. He has over 10 years’ experience working in consultancy as both a practice head and COO at Thales Information Systems and Catalyst Ltd.
