Today’s most evolved enterprises know the potential of their data as a competitive lever and for insights into their customers. They also know that not all data is created equal. To build the most modern IT environments and derive the maximum value, there is a growing acknowledgement that data types have different needs for access, storage, and management.

Following the investment announced by Motive Partners less than a year ago, Finantix, the leading global provider of trusted technology to the wealth management, insurance and banking industries, is pleased to report on the progress this has yielded.

App Annie, the leader in mobile market data and analytics, today released a groundbreaking report on Generation Z, How to Win Gen Z, a demographic that’s now the largest population on Earth and the mobile-first generation.

This report is essential for businesses to gain insight into this emerging economic engine to fuel revenue and relevance for the long term.

44 UK organisations including IBM, The Co-Op and Lloyds Banking Group, are celebrating after being commended with a Princess Royal Training Award for their workplace learning at a ceremony held at St James’s Palace in London last night.

Presented by HRH Princess Anne and delivered by the City and Guilds Group, the Princess Royal Training Awards, now in their fourth year, celebrate exceptional training and development programmes across the country.

 Nutanix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTNX), a leader in enterprise cloud computing, announced today a partnership with Hardis Group, a consulting, digital services and software publishing company, to deliver Vision Insights powered by Xi IoT, an innovative solution to manage supply chain operations efficiency.

The idea that machines have the potential to make better decisions than us humans is nothing new. The recent explosion of available data, coupled with advances in technology has elevated AI’s commercial credibility, which, unsurprisingly, the financial services industry is keen to take advantage of.

Pollinate, the business behind Tyl by NatWest, has launched with a growth capital investment round from a consortium of global industry leaders. Mastercard, Motive Partners and EFM Asset Management (EFM) will join RBS as both investors in, and partners to, the Pollinate business, which has raised a total of £60 million in funding to date. 

ING announced today that Robert Reibestein has decided to resign from the Supervisory Board of ING Group per 1 January 2020.

Robert Reibestein was appointed to the Supervisory Board in May 2012 and started in this role per 1 January 2013. After 7 years of dedicated membership of the Supervisory Board, Robert Reibestein decided to resign because of persistent personal health issues.

In his role as ING Group Supervisory Board member, Robert Reibestein was also chairman of the Risk Committee and member of the Audit Committee and Remuneration Committee.

UK-based Alliance Investments, a direct-to-developer real estate investment company, today announced its plans to tokenize £500m of real estate projects across the UK over the next several years. The first project of its real estate tokenization plan is River Plaza, a 180-unit luxury residential development that is located on the banks of River Irwell and directly opposite of Castlefield in Manchester.

Nomura, Asia’s global investment bank, has made its five FX algorithmic strategies available on the BidFX platform.

Clients can now access Nomura’s FX Algo Tsuwamono Series on BidFX. Each strategy offers a wide range of flexibility on executions suited to client requirements and trading preferences.

Ian Daniels, Nomura Head of eFX Distribution EMEA & Americas said: “Nomura’s FX algorithms provide substantial benefits to clients, with high levels of trading flexibility. We’re pleased that clients can now find our algorithms on BidFX.”