Appian announced that the newly formed Iccrea Banking Group, created from a merger of hundreds of small ItalianCooperative Credit Banks (BCCs), has chosen the Appian low-code platform to digitize and automate key banking processes.

Worldline, the European market leader in payment and transactional services and Trapeze, a leader in intelligent transport systems, have  developed a truly hands-free payment solution that allows passengers using public transport to pay for their ticket by automatically detecting their entire journey using Bluetooth.

Agorai, a global platform which provides the turnkey software solutions and data needed for any company to join the AI economy, has expanded its strategic partnerships, adding four top AI companies – eContext, EZOPS, Hyper Cognition and SEON – as well as data specialist Complementics.

A few years past, it had been arduous to seek out anyone to own a significant discussion concerning computing (AI) outside educational establishments. Today, nearly everyone talks about AI. Like any new major technology trend, the new wave of {creating |or constructing} AI and intelligent systems a reality is creating curiosity and enthusiasm. People are jumping on its bandwagon adding not only great ideas but also in many cases a lot of false promises and sometimes misleading opinions.

Livingstone, the global M&A advisory firm, examines the trends and topics that will take front and centre next week at the much anticipated London Tech Week (June 10-14).

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One in 10 brits now live a largely cashless life, according to new UK Finance findings, amid a rise of contactless and mobile banking. Highlighting the UK is quickly progressing towards becoming a completely cashless society. While there’s no denying the UK is fast approaching a cashless society, there remain a number of barriers that threaten the UK’s ability to fully embrace this transition. From a lack of trust in mobile payment technology to a lack of accessibility for the poor or elderly.

In this blog we investigate the potential risks linked to democratizing asset based lending to a larger retail and SME audience. In principle, when customers lend against their (liquid) investment assets at the bank, the scoring of the credit can be done on an objective basis, based on the valuation of the assets blocked by the bank. Therefore a big advantage of liquid asset based lending (LABL) is that customers can use the money for whatever purpose.

 Finastra today announced it has won the 2019 Microsoft Alliance Global ISV Partner of the Year Award. The company was honored among a global field of top Microsoft partners for demonstrating excellence in innovation and implementation of customer solutions based on Microsoft technology.

We are entering a new era for blockchain. The initial hype and exaggerations are beginning to fade and, as they do, we are able to take a clearer, more sober-minded view. Where can blockchain really deliver on its revolutionary promise, and where is it a forced fit?