An interview with Junta Nakai, Global Industry Leader, Financial Services at Databricks.

Financial IT: Can you tell us more about your background and the career path that brought you to join the Databricks?

ING announced today that Steven van Rijswijk, currently member of the Executive Board and chief risk officer of ING, will succeed Ralph Hamers as CEO and chairman of the Executive Board. The Supervisory Board has appointed Steven van Rijswijk effective 1 July 2020. As announced earlier, Ralph Hamers will leave ING to join UBS, where he will become CEO later in the year.

IDnow (www.idnow.io), a fast growing European identity verification provider, has seen demand for its AI and video identity software in the UK’s financial services sector more than double since the start of the year as growth in scams linked to COVID-19 continue to rise.

HGC Global Communications Limited (HGC), a fully-fledged fixed-line operator and ICT service provider with extensive local and international network coverage, services and infrastructure, today announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with aamra networks limited (aamra), the leading internet and infrastructure service provider in Bangladesh, to stimulate network integration and expansion using SDN technology.

Serving OTT and corporate customers’ cloud business in Bangladesh