Pendo Systems have been selected by SWIFT to exhibit in the Fintech Marketplace at SIBOS in the Metro Toronto Convention Centre between Oct. 16-19, 2017. SIBOS is the world's premier financial services event and attracts representatives from over 200 financial institutions.

DefenseStorm, a company that delivers cybersecurity and cybercompliance solutions specifically built for banking, today announced that the company has successfully completed its Service Organization Controls (SOC) Audit 2 Type II examination.

Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. has acquired Summit Financial Disclosure, LLC, a full-service financial document management solutions provider. Summit’s document composition and regulatory filing services will be integrated with Broadridge’s proxy voting and shareholder communications services to create an end-to-end solution that spans the entire corporate disclosure lifecycle from private funding, through capital markets transactions and ongoing communications to regulators and shareholders.

NPL, the UK’s National Measurement Institute, is expanding its precise timing service, NPLTime®, through a distribution agreement with QuantHouse, the independent provider of trading and infrastructure solutions and innovative market data services to the quant trading community.

It’s National Customer Service Week this week, and one of the key themes being discussed is the use of AI technology and chatbots for serving customers. One big debate for the week is whether chatbots will or will not eliminate any inadvertent bias in how customers are treated.

A new study from AI experts Pegasystems and issued for National Customer Service Week sets out what British customers think.

New research on crowdfunding carried out by HEC Paris, the University of Technology Sydney, Singapore Management University and INSEAD has revealed that funding efforts are weakened if ideas are deemed to be both novel and useful.

The study is the first evidence of how the Kickstarter community – those backing crowdfunding projects on the world’s largest online crowdfunding portal - values projects that pursue innovation.

Gemalto, a world leader in digital security and Gold level member of Oracle PartnerNetwork, today announced that Oracle Cloud Infrastructure customers can enhance the security of their cloud workloads and reduce the complexity of managing multiple heterogeneous security solutions with an integrated SafeNet Encryption and Key Management offering. 

Temenos, the software specialist for banking and finance, today announces that Cooperative Bank of Oromia (CBO) has gone live with its UniversalSuite. As the bank increases its footprint in Ethiopia, this new technology will enable the bank’s growth strategy, supported by an agile core banking solution, powerful analytics, and a central platform to drive growth across all distribution channels. United System Integrators (USi) led the implementation of Temenos’ Core Banking platform at CBO.

Compuware today made Topaz, its flagship solution for mainframe Agile/DevOps, available on Amazon Web Services (AWS). This marks the industry’s first cloud access to modern mainframe development, enabling enterprises to deploy agile tools for COBOL and other core codebases in minutes.

It can now take as little as 9 minutes for stolen card and account data to be used via the dark web.