Cloud computing is now a fact of life for many businesses. While it's only a few years since the technology was still viewed as a new, disruptive innovation aimed at early-adopters, it's now a standard part of the IT environment in almost every organisation.
But when we talk about cloud, what do we mean? One of the challenges of the technology is that any two organisations may have very different ideas about what constitutes cloud, and this can affect how they view the benefits.
Opus Bank announced that Frederic Stupart has joined Opus’ Merchant Banking division and Opus Financial Partners, the Bank’s broker-dealer subsidiary, as Managing Director, Financial Sponsors Group. Mr. Stupart, an investment banking and private equity veteran with over 20 years of experience, is responsible for developing and maintaining relationships and providing capital funding, tailored solutions, and strategic advice for middle-market companies and their private equity sponsors.
Industry 4.0. consists of autonomous production chains made more intelligent by the combination of ever more advanced technologies. Yet these technologies must be capable of communicating with one another, within increasingly immense and complex ecosystems, in order to streamline, secure, and optimise logistics and production processes.
Industry 4.0: the gateway to the future
I’ve noticed a great deal of schadenfreude related to the R3 bump. Lots of people saying that blockchain is past its sell-by date, R3 are bust and distributed ledgers are dead. I think it’s related to the journalists who, having delighted in bigging up blockchain big time for the past two years are now reli
Aquila Capital has reinforced its commitment to Norway by planning to merge Småkraft and Norsk Grønnkraft (NGK), to create the leading operator in the country’s hydropower market and the largest operator of small-scale hydropower plants in Europe.
Atom Bank, the UK’s first bank built exclusively for mobile, announces the launch of residential mortgages, available through selected independent mortgage advisers.
Atom obtained its banking licence in June 2015 and launched the new bank in April this year with two market-leading Fixed Saver accounts, along with SME lending via a panel of specialist business intermediaries. It’s now adding competitive residential mortgages to its product suite.
TSYS (NYSE: TSS) announced that it has renewed its payments agreement with Advanzia Bank S.A., the largest issuer of credit cards in Luxembourg, to continue processing the bank’s consumer credit card portfolio. TSYS will also provide additional services such as fraud and risk management, verification and contactless card support.
Advanzia has a fast-growing portfolio of MasterCard credit cards across the Luxembourg, German, French and Austrian markets, transacting all of its business online. Advanzia was established in 2005 and has been a TSYS client since 2006.
Percentile, leading innovator in risk management and RegTech, today announced the launch of RiskMine FRTB Standardised Calculator, a tool which allows banks to meet the key requirements of BCBS’s new market risk capital standards.
Financial IT speaks with Tristan Blampied, Senior Product Manager, Pelican at Sibos 2016.
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