INSTANDA, the leading customer and policy management platform for the insurance industry, has successfully launched its first African insurance market product on its platform with newly-onboarded client, Standard Bank South Africa.

INSTANDA has worked closely with Standard Bank Insurance to enable them to launch a new commercial cyber insurance product. After just one week of training, Standard Bank Insurance started working on the product themselves and were able to test and take it to market in under six months.

There are many different arms of fintech being developed specifically for businesses and investment companies, but virtual reality is something that has existed for a while in different formats, and is being adopted into the investment space through innovate software. Interested to find out more? Here’s some key information about virtual reality currently, and how it ties in successfully with the property investment world.

Origins of VR

Despite this festive period promising to be the most online ever, fears of failure threaten a fifth (21%) of online retailers. A new study from London-based online payment company, Checkout.com, shows one in five (19%) online merchants don’t think their e-commerce offering will cope with this year’s online festive sales rush, rising to 22% for smaller retailers*.

Red Hat, Inc., the world's leading provider of open source solutions, announced several upgrades to its enterprise automation platform, including the latest version of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform with new Red Hat Certified Ansible Content Collections, automation services catalog and private Automation Hub.

There has been a steady stream of transaction tax announcements in the last ten years. High profile Financial Transaction Taxes (FTTs) have been introduced in France and Italy and more specific dividend taxes in the US with 871(m) and 305(c), and Capital Gains Taxes (CGT) introduced globally. As a result, the market has had to wake up to a growing operational challenge on top of those caused by the tide of regulations including MiFID II and EMIR, not to mention planning for the arrival of CSDR.

Advapay, a digital core banking platform for fintechs, and Sumsub, an identity verification platform that covers KYC/KYB/AML needs, have partnered to deliver a smart KYC and AML solution to digital banks and fintechs.

Objectway, a leader in the Digital Wealth & Asset Management software, announced they have ranked #77 on the 2020 IDC FinTech Rankings.

This is the sixth consecutive year Objectway have appeared on this prestigious list.

The Fortune 500-style annual ranking categorises and evaluates the top global providers of financial technology based on 2019 calendar year revenues from financial institutions.

Kneip, a global leader in fund data management, is today announcing that it has appointed Nick Yeates as Chief Financial Officer. Kneip has ambitious plans to grow globally. To achieve this, Kneip is making significant hires in key areas, with Enrique Sacau appointed as CEO in July and now Nick Yeates as CFO.

additiv, a leading SaaS provider to the wealth management industry, today announced that it has expanded its range of operational locations to include a new Euro-pean head office in Frankfurt, Germany.  With offices already established in Singapore, Dubai, Nairobi, Bucharest and headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland, the office will be primarily focused on European customers supporting additiv’s growing customer base within the region.

In a battle for significance, no other public facing business document can match the annual financial report. It is the document that a public corporation must, by law, publish to describe its operations and financial condition, and to chronicle its activities over the past twelve months. Shareholders, investors and the wider financial ecosystem make innumerable strategic and operational decisions based on its contents.