UniCredit has today announced a collaboration with FinDynamic, an Italian fintech company offering dynamic discounting programs, as it seeks to enhance its working capital offering for corporate clients.

As part of the agreement, UniCredit has also taken a minority equity stake in the business – highlighting the bank’s willingness to partner with the right fintechs in order to drive innovation.

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Omnio Holding Sàrl, the holding company of Omnio Group, today announced the appointment of Robin Dear as its Chief Financial Officer (CFO), effective June 10, 2019.  Omnio is an advanced public cloud core banking platform that provides flexibility and omnichannel functionality across retail and digital channels for banks and non-banks.  

New research from Luxoft, the global technology services and consulting partner, has revealed that Tier one, Tier two and Tier three investment banks are overconfident for the EU’s new Securities Financing Transactions Regulation (SFTR), which comes into force next April.

Corfinancial, a leading provider of specialist software and services to the financial services sector, has been chosen by technology and services innovator Archer to provide Archer’s investment management clients with advanced portfolio and model construction through the integration of corfinancial’s BITA Risk suite of products.

BeyondTrust, the worldwide leader in Privileged Access Management, has released the 2019 Privileged Access Threat Report. In its fourth edition, the global survey explores the visibility, control, and management that IT organizations across the globe—including the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Saudi Arabia―have over employees, contractors, and third-party vendors with privileged access to their IT networks.

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the premier post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, today announced new partnerships with Catena Technologies, Compliance Solutions Strategies (CSS) and Finastra, to further support our mutual clients who will leverage DTCC’s Global Trade Repository (GTR) service in support of forth

Appian announced that the newly formed Iccrea Banking Group, created from a merger of hundreds of small ItalianCooperative Credit Banks (BCCs), has chosen the Appian low-code platform to digitize and automate key banking processes.

Worldline, the European market leader in payment and transactional services and Trapeze, a leader in intelligent transport systems, have  developed a truly hands-free payment solution that allows passengers using public transport to pay for their ticket by automatically detecting their entire journey using Bluetooth.

Agorai, a global platform which provides the turnkey software solutions and data needed for any company to join the AI economy, has expanded its strategic partnerships, adding four top AI companies – eContext, EZOPS, Hyper Cognition and SEON – as well as data specialist Complementics.