The BS/2, a part of Penki Kontinentai Group, sold 111 ATMs with an integrated security and monitoring solution ATMeye.iQ to the Bank CenterCredit. The integration and maintenance of equipment has been entrusted to a subsidiary BS/2 Kazakhstan. 

Across areas of enterprise technology investment, 19 percent of spending goes to cloud-related services currently. According to Gartner, that will rise to 28 percent by 2022, with prominent growth in enterprise IT spending on cloud-based offerings. In the second quarter of 2018 alone, businesses spent over £15 bn on cloud computing infrastructure. 

Abacus Group, a leading provider of hosted IT solutions and application hosting for alternative investment firms, today announced it has completed the acquisition of Hedgepoint Solutions, a boutique IT consulting firm based in New York City.

The Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection (BCFP) and the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) today released for public use a new loan-level dataset collected through the National Survey of Mortgage Originations (NSMO) that provides insights into borrowers’ experiences in getting a residential mortgage. 

Trustly, the European payments company, today announces that it has opened a new office in Helsinki to meet a growing demand for its fast, simple and safe payment method from Finnish online businesses and their customers.

Martin Greweldinger has been appointed to the new role of Group Chief Product Officer (CPO) at Avaloq and will join the Group Executive Board on 1 January 2019. He will report to Juerg Hunziker, Group CEO, and be responsible for connecting client and market requirements and translating them into product and service offerings.

The new era of regulatory requirements triggered by the global financial crisis presents the financial industry with many challenges.

Regulation and technology are two of the most important mega-trends that have shifted the tectonic plates of global finance. In the wake of the financial crisis, authorities across the globe have introduced a wave of new, comprehensive and more prudent regulation. 

Tasnim Ghiawadwala has joined Barclays as the new Head of UK Corporate Banking. 

Tasnim joins the bank from Citi, where she spent 21 years most recently as Head of Commercial Bank Europe, Middle East and Africa.  At Citi, she held a range of roles across Investment Banking, Corporate and Commercial Bank, and Regional Management and worked at JP Morgan and Commercial Union prior to Citi.

Concerns about ad safety and the quality of digital inventory have clearly had an impact on the mix of adspend in 2018.  News brands and magazines seem to have benefitted from a ‘flight to quality’, significantly reducing the decline in spend on these channels to an average of 7% (compared to 13% in H1-17). Given the uncertainty created by Brexit and challenges facing the UK consumer, growth in adspend significantly above expectations, and well ahead of inflation is certainly positive for media owners.