For more than 170 years, New York Life Insurance Company has promised and provided financial security and peace of mind to its customers, which includes a commitment to keeping personal information secure. To achieve this, New York Life implemented a layered mobile security approach from MobileIron and Skycure, which helps make its employees and licensed agents more agile with mobile while protecting customer data on devices and in the corporate network.

IBM and Vodafone India today announced a multi-million dollar five year agreement for IBM to manage IT services support for Vodafone India's IT infrastructure and applications environment.

By bringing together Vodafone India's enterprise data and cloud ready applications into a scalable environment that keeps data local, private and secure, the new IBM hybrid cloud platform will enable delivery of faster and more insightful data intelligence and support faster decision-making.

 Elektrilevi, Estonia's largest network operator with around 475,000 customers, has joined the European Network for Cyber Security (ENCS). Elektrilevi, which maintains a network almost 64,000 kilometres of power lines and more than 24,000 substations, has made the move with the goal of supporting its own efforts to improve cyber resilience.

O’Neil Securities, Incorporated, a registered broker-dealer providing high-touch trading services to the institutional investment community, is pleased to announce several recent appointments to its team in its newly established Boston headquarters. The infusion of trading expertise further strengthens the firm’s capabilities and its partnership with the firm’s affiliated registered investment advisor, William O’Neil + Co., enriching the service offerings for clients of both entities.

I got into an interesting debate with two good friends in Asia over the weekend.  I was sitting at home in the UK of course, but these days we are all connected globally in real-time so if you post something on Facebook or Twitter, you can soon find yourself in a global discussion.  This one was an interesting one as Zennon Kapron, a really good analyst and commentator based in China, posted an article about Alibaba’s Ant Financial.

QCash Financial, provider of an automated, cloud-based, omni-channel lending platform for financial institutions, announces that it now offers its small-dollar, short-term lending technology to Canadian financial institutions.

Due to the demand for small-dollar lending in Canada, QCash Financial is expanding to offer its services to Canadian financial institutions. By serving the Canadian market, QCash Financial will offer Canadian financial institutions the ability to provide consumers a better alternative to Canadian payday loans.

The 2016 Debit Issuer Study, commissioned by PULSE, takes stock of the debit industry’s shift to chip (EMV) cards and mobile payments. As a result of the October 2015 liability shift, financial institutions have begun their chip debit card roll-out in earnest with optimism about the technology’s potential for enhancing the security of payment card transactions.

The study also details financial institutions’ move to support more mobile payment options as competition grows among mobile wallet providers.

MYPINPAD, an enabler of multi-factor authentication for touchscreen devices such as mobile phones and tablets, is being asked whether the digital commerce industry has compromised consumer security in favour of user experience.

FEXCO - one of the world's leading independent financial technology providers has today announced a partnership with Electronic Network Cash Tellers, to launch the first-ever mobile cash withdrawal solution in the Philippines.