Leading analytics firm FICO today announced the latest version of FICO® Analytics Workbench™, a cloud-based advanced analytics development environment that empowers business users and data scientists with sophisticated, yet easy-to-use, data exploration, visual data wrangling, decision strategy design and machine learning. 

As new data privacy regulations shine a spotlight on AI and machine learning, the FICO Analytics Workbench xAI Toolkit helps data scientists better understand the machine learning models behind AI-derived decisions.

BMW Financial Services (GB) Ltd today announces a partnership with Wrisk that will see the insurtech startup become the sole supplier of BMW and MINI Car Insurance. The partnership follows Wrisk’s time in the first BMW Innovation Lab in 2017, which saw the team win on the final pitch day after developing the platform now being used by BMW.

Looker, a leading data platform company, today announced that Adyen, the payments platform of choice for many of the world’s leading companies, has implemented Looker to transform its culture around data and support its rapid growth. Adyen, whichprovides the payments platform for high-growth businesses such as Uber, Facebook and Spotify was looking to transform its data processes, increase staff independence and efficiency, and develop critical business insights from its data – underpinning its sustained growth.

The hosting of the Blockchain Solution Asia 2018 Conference and Exhibition from 27 September to 29 September 2018 at Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre will provide the best answers for industry stakeholders to better understand the impact of Blockchain Revolution and its technological advances on specific sectors including the energy sector, banking & insurance, construction & transportation, manufacturing, healthcare and fundraising.

Global brand and marketing consultancy Prophet announced the results of the fourth Prophet Brand Relevance Index® (BRI), a ranking of the most relevant brands in consumers' lives today. PayPal #25, Nationwide #38 and Visa #43 represented financial services in this year’s top 50 list. This was the first time that three financial services companies appeared in the top 50 since 2016. It was also Nationwide’s first appearance in the top 50 while PayPal fell one place from #24 in 2017 while Visa rose a place from #44 last year.

Paxos today announced the launch of Paxos Standard™, the world's first regulated crypto asset. The Paxos Standard token is fully collateralized 1:1 by the U.S. dollar, issued by the Paxos Trust Company, and approved and regulated by the New York State Department of Financial Services.

Ripple Labs Inc., provider of the leading enterprise blockchain solutions for payments and XRP II, LLC, release the following statement today:

R3 HoldCo LLC, R3 LLC, Ripple Labs Inc. and XRP II, LLC announce that they have reached a settlement of all outstanding litigation between the parties. The terms of the agreement will remain confidential and both sides look forward to putting these disputes behind them.

 IHS Markit (Nasdaq: INFO), a world leader in critical information, analytics and solutions, today announced that Coronation Fund Managers, one of the largest independent asset managers in South Africa, has gone live on its Enterprise Data Management (EDM) Managed Service in only 14 weeks.

Control Risks, the specialist global risk consultancy, has appointed Neil Meikle as Head of Forensic Technology for Europe and Africa. Neil is a forensic technology specialist with over fifteen years of experience in leading multi-jurisdictional forensic investigations for clients including corporates, law firms and regulatory bodies. Neil joins Control Risks from PwC UK.