Finance automation company V1 has been awarded the highly coveted Rockstar* partner status from Sage, taking it another step closer to driving greater automation in the accounting sector. Six years after a joint agreement was signed to introduce EDM for Sage X3, V1’s Purchase Invoice Automation (PIA) solution has been given the top partner ranking for Sage X3, held by just 12 Independent Software Vendors (ISV) globally.

Alipay, the world’s largest online and mobile payment platform, operated by Ant Financial Services Group (Ant Financial), has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Singapore Tourism Board (STB) to enhance Chinese tourists’ overall experience in Singapore. 

As part of the CLEAR online investigations suite, CLEAR ID Confirm leverages comprehensive, up-to-date public and proprietary data to enable organizations to complete identity verification tasks, including risk evaluation and business vetting. 

big xyt, the independent provider of high-volume, smart data and analytics capabilities, announced today that SIX Swiss Exchange has joined the xyt hub to provide high quality tick data to its trading participants, enabling them to develop, evaluate and backtest new trading and execution strategies while providing greater transparency over trading activity.

We are delighted to be joining AIM at such a pivotal time in the Company's development.  Alpha has enjoyed a period of solid investment under its current ownership by Dunedin and this placing and admission to AIM will allow Alpha to retain its strong employee and growth-oriented culture and to invest more readily in future expansion through the pay down of all existing debt facilities.

On October 11, Eddy Travia, CEO and Co-founder of the London-listed Coinsilium Group Limited, will speak at ICO Event London. He will tell about crowdsales from the investor’s perspective: how to identify promising ICOs and invest with minimal risk.

Time is getting closer for IFINSEC Financial Sector IT Security Conference and Exhibition (www.ifinsec.com) that will be held on 14-15 November 2017 in Istanbul, Turkey. IFINSEC is a global, niche and dedicated conference focusing on IT Security technologies and solutions for financial industry. Sponsorship and delegate registrations are open.  

Smartkarma, Asia’s largest provider of independent investment research, today announced the opening of its new UK office to serve as a hub to build out its independent research analyst community in Europe and support its buy-side investor clientele. Arzish Baaquie, who joined the firm in 2014 and previously led the Special Situations offering, is spearheading the growth of Smartkarma in the UK and will build a team based in Baker Street, London.

Research from TeleWare, a leading communication technology business, reveals that just 42 per cent of senior decision makers are confident in their firm’s knowledge of MiFID II requirements. Although only 99 days away, worryingly more than half (54 per cent) believe more education is needed on details of the European directive.

Last year, the consumer group Which? asked us to look into authorised push payment (APP) scams – where people are tricked into making payments to a fraudster.