Canadian Union of Postal Workers say there are issues on the table, including bringing back postal banking, an idea which has just been rejected by the big bank lobby.

"We're not surprised that the big banks, which raked in a $35 billion profit last year by gouging Canadians with some of the highest fees in the world, would oppose a public banking option," said Mike Palecek, president of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers.

Kinaxis, provider of RapidResponse®, delivering cloud-based SCM and S&OP applications, has been named a 'Great Supply Chain Part

Built on Microsoft Azure Services and Self-learning Algorithms, new Offering is Designed for Flexible, Data-driven Decision Making.

Mindtree has launched Decision Moments, the first data analytics platform that applies continuous learning algorithms to large data pools, allowing businesses to generate meaningful and compelling insights that improve over time.

Various business users, such as sales, marketing and human resources, need to make sense of the large amounts of business data from multiple sources and help make better, more informed decisions.

Global warming adds significant new risks for the world's banks, insurers and pension funds, warns a study published by the Global Risk Institute.

"Given the financial service industry's heavily integrated role in society, it is particularly susceptible to the risks associated with climate change," the study notes. "It must therefore ensure that proper climate change strategies and risk management procedures are in place in order to remain viable."

In May I attended Dotfinance 2016 in Nairobi, Kenya. A stellar roster of speakers, including Chris Skinner, Jim Marous and David Brear gave me a holistic overview of a market to which I'd recently been assigned, so I thought I'd share my findings here. 

TIM, by way of its technology partnership with SIA (through subsidiary TSP), has madePOS MultiPay terminals operative in over 2,200 stores in its sales network in Italy, with the aim of extending the methods of electronic payment for its offers.

SimCorp, a leading provider of investment management solutions and services for the global financial services industry, has announced that Marathon Asset Management LLP (Marathon) has chosen its end-to-end client communications and reporting suite, SimCorp Coric, to improve its client communication and reporting capabilities.

 IBM reports a cloud service for organizations requiring a secure environment for blockchain networks. Ideal for organizations in regulated industries, this environment allows clients to test and run blockchain projects that handle private data. 

Cloud Security Broker secures corporate and client content in Box for organizations in highly regulated industries.