Smartkarma, Asia’s largest provider of independent research, and ULLINK, a global provider of electronic trading and connectivity solutions to the financial community, today announced the immediate availability of the Smartkarma research platform via the NYFIX Portal. Targeting the growing need for transparent pricing and unconflicted research for the buy-side, driven by regulatory focus on unbundling research from current commission structures, the partnership gives NYFIX buy-side members access to quality, independent research on Asian markets.

With the introduction of Face ID, and the removal of the Touch ID button, Apple today confirmed speculation about its next generation of on-device authentication when it come

ZF, UBS and IBM will soon be jointly developing an open automotive transaction platform for mobility services based on blockchain technology. Car eWallet has the potential to radically change the way manufacturers, suppliers and service providers process digital transactions and considerably simplify the use of vehicle services. 

Equipped with the Car eWallet technology, the vehicle can automatically pay for transactions at the electric vehicle charging station. 

Envestnet | Yodlee, a leading data aggregation and analytics platform powering dynamic, cloud-based innovation for digital financial services, is demonstrating its vision of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) FinCheck app at FinovateFall in New York City. 

Bankable’s Banking as a Service platform powers Moneyou BV, the fully digital consumer subsidiary of ABN Amro. The service is now opened to selected customers in the Netherlands. 

• 73% of UK adults now use alterative payment methods, figures show
• Figures from Paul Hastings’ ‘Future of Payments’ research

Women are more likely than men to switch to an online-only bank, but both genders support new payments innovation, figures released by international law firm Paul Hastings show. 

Elastic, the company behind Elasticsearch, and the Elastic Stack, the most widely used collection of open source products for solving mission-critical use cases like search, logging, and analytics, today announced a new partn

Baker Hill, a leading provider of technology solutions for common loan origination, relationship management and smart data analytics, announced they have been named for the second consecutive year to the IDC FinTech Rankings, ranking #94 on this year’s list. The most comprehensive vendor ranking within the financial services industry, the annual IDC FinTech Rankings is based on 2016 calendar year revenues attributed to financial institutions. 

DefenseStorm, a company that delivers cybersecurity and cybercompliance solutions specifically built for banking is a winner of the 2017 IDC FinTech Rankings Real Results Award for Digital Trust and Stewardship.