Intelligent Environments, the software development company that provides financial services organisations with the ability to transform their digital customer experiences, todaylaunched the latest iteration of Interact® Collect – a solution that finally rewires the debt recovery and reconciliation process for the digital world.

Interact Collect is a digital-first approach to consumer debt collection.

The Symphony Software Foundation (the Foundation), the nonprofit organization fostering open source software innovation in financial services, will be hosting its second Open Source Strategy Forum on November 14, 2018. Following a successful 2017 event at BNY Mellon in New York City, the Open Source Strategy Forum moves this year to London, another global epicenter of financial services and the fintech revolution.

The investment service Robo.cash outlined the results of the first year in operation on the European P2P lending market: 2.000 investors from the EU and Switzerland invested over €3 million in the issue of 330 thousand short-term PDL-loans in Kazakhstan and Spain. The results and the platform dynamics are considered to prove the growing demand for complex automated solutions in the global alternative fintech. 

Astound Commerce, the world's largest privately-held digital commerce agency, has merged today with Fluid, a leading digital customer experience and software solutions company, to create a next generation commerce-led digital experience agency.

CEO Insight Magazine, the presenter of “CEO Insight Companies of Excellence”, have selected 

Digipulse, the world's first blockchain-based crypto and digital asset inheritance service has released its public Beta, which offers a glimpse at the upcoming 'inheritable vault's'. Digipulse aims to ensure that all digital media and crypto users have ultimate control over who inherits their assets.

A survey by BroadSoft, Inc., now a part of Cisco, and a global market leader in cloud calling, meeting, messaging and contact center software as a service (SaaS), has found that 74% of businesses are planning to adopt cloud UC in the next 24 months.

Sompo International, a Bermuda-based specialty provider of property and casualty insurance and reinsurance, announced today that it will launch a new European specialty insurance underwriting operation initially focused on management liability, professional indemnity and financial institutions lines of business. Mr. Thomas Mannsdorfer, Executive Vice President, will lead the new team, which will partner with brokers across Continental Europe. He is joined by Mr. Mathieu Borneuf, Senior Vice President, who along with Mr.

MYPINPAD, a global leader in payments software authentication solutions, today announced a significant appointment to its leadership team, Neal Hindocha joining as Chief Security Officer (CSO). 

Hindocha has a 20-year career background in international IT security, working in research, product development, network security, consulting services and management.

Most of us are spending more and more time online these days. And I do mean “spending” as online sales saw large gains of 18.1 percent, when comparing holiday shopping from 2016 to 2017.

As we shop for everything from unique wedding gifts to play and concert tickets or even just sending money online to family and friends, it seems timely to offer basic tips for protecting payments when buying from unknown sources: