A new study from Centrify, the leader in securing enterprise identities against cyberthreats, reveals that 75 per cent of adults in the UK would stop doing business with, or would cancel a membership to, an organisation if it was hacked. This suggests, however, that a quarter would carry on using that company, despite the security risks to both personal and financial information.

myPINpad, a UK based technology company, which enables multi-channel and multi-factor authentication on unsecure devices such as mobile phones and tablets via the Cardholder PIN, today announced it has appointed Robert Courtneidge to its Board of Directors.

Robert brings over 25 years of experience in the cards and payments industries to myPINpad and has worked closely with the Payments Services Regulator, HM Treasury and the Financial Conduct Association and other compliance and industry bodies.

 Synechron, Inc., a global consulting and technology innovator in the financial services industry, today released the results of a survey conducted by the TABB Group for Synechron on the potential of blockchain and artificial intelligence (AI) in financial services. The survey was conducted with 92 banking and capital markets institutions, with executives that are directly involved with technology decisions at their firm. 

The major findings are as follows:

Blockchain

Gresham, a leading provider of real-time financial transaction control and enterprise data integrity solutions, today announces an upgrade to its Account Receivables Management (Clareti ARM) offering. The proven ‘white label’ technology, which enables banks to offer receivables management services to their corporate customers, can now receive and process remittance advices, whether in email, excel, word or pdf format.

It’s no secret consumers have a fairly poor perception of high street banks, with the financial crisis, numerous high profile outages and the PPI scandal doing little to ingratiate traditional banks to the national public. It’s therefore unsurprising so many competitors are emerging, disrupting a market which is traditionally quite stuck in its ways.

 EZ-Link Pte Ltd, Singapore’s largest issuer of CEPAS-compliant cards, welcomes the full launch of the new unified Point of Sale (POS) system in Premier Taxis that accepts ez-link and other contact and contactless modes of payment including MasterCard, American Express, Diners Club, JCB, Union Pay and NETS, and soon Visa cards.

Ipreo Private Capital Markets today announced the release of iVAL™, a cloud-based valuation solution that integrates data sources, valuation models, and reporting tools into a single platform and workflow for Private Equity ("PE") professionals.

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) announced today that it will make it easier for start-ups and Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) to access securities-based crowd-funding (SCF) in two ways.

CME Group, the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, and CloudMargin, the award-winning collateral management provider, today announced they have collaborated to offer CME Clearing and CME Clearing Europe customers the first cloud-based software service that integrates and automates the management of collateral in one place. This allows market participants access to a consolidated view across their complete collateral inventory that they can utilize for both cleared and non-cleared derivatives transactions at any given time.