Sberbank and SberCloud have unveiled Russia’s fastest supercomputer, the Christofari, named after Nikolai Christofari, the first customer of the nation’s first savings bank.

The supercomputer was presented by Herman Gref, CEO and Chairman of the Executive Board of Sberbank, and David Rafalovsky, CTO of Sberbank Group, Executive Vice President and Head of the Technology Block of Sberbank, at the International AI Journey conference on AI development and use.

Comarch is excited to introduce a first of its kind cross-sector artificial intelligence platform, Comarch Artificial Intelligence Management (AIM). Powered by the latest innovations in AI and machine learning (ML), Comarch AIM is the cross-industry, enterprise-ready, cloud-based solution that will change the way you do business – making your enterprise more efficient, cost-effective, and data-driven than ever before.

TALL Security Print, part of the TALL Group of Companies, is celebrating another series of new contract wins in Africa, adding two Nigerian Universities to its fast-growing portfolio in the region.  Under the terms of the new deals TALL Security Print will print graduation certificates for a number of Nigerian universities including the University of Ibadan and Ahmadu Bello University, taking their total to 17. 

At its annual conference, Backbase Connect 2019, Backbase has announced the winners of its Partner Awards. The awards, which recognize pioneering collaboration achievements in global digital banking, were split into three categories: Regional Partner of the Year,  Customer Success Award and  Partner Solution Award. Bring Global, Accenture and PwC won each category respectively. 

BEQUANT, a leading cryptocurrency exchange with prime brokerage services is collaborating with Avelacom, the high-performance global connectivity and IT infrastructure provider; to provide crypto currency market participants with faster access to BEQUANT’s market infrastructure via Avelacom’s low latency network. 

Through this initiative BEQUANT’s colocation facilities and connectivity footprint globally will be increased through a point-to-point fiber in Equinix’s LD4 data centre, providing proximity and lowest latency connections between both companies’ networks. 

Path Solutions, the global Islamic banking software company, today announced a new partnership with Nityo Infotech, the fastest growing next-generation global IT services company.

Waiting ages for a major regulation to come along, and as soon as it arrives another new rule quickly follows. Before the industry has a chance to fully iron out all the post-MiFID II wrinkles, another regulation comes along. This time, compliance eyes are gazing upon the traditionally underreported world of repos, securities lending, and the re-use of collateral.

The overwhelming majority of consumers would prefer their main bank, as opposed to other banks or third-party providers (TPPs), to be their primary source of open banking services, a new pan-European study from Mobey Forum and Aite Group has revealed.

MayStreet, a modern market data platform engineered to deliver the highest-quality, most complete capital markets data commercially available, today announced it has assumed the role of market data provider for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Market Information Data Analytics System (MIDAS). The SEC has transferred the vendor contract by novation from the previous provider, Thesys Technologies, as part of MayStreet’s acquisition of Thesys’ business unit that operates MIDAS.