ACI Worldwide, a leading global provider of real-time electronic payment solutions, will unveil the next generation of eCommerce payments today at the eCommerce Disruption Opportunity executive summit. UP eCommerce Payments empowers merchants and the payment service providers (PSPs) that serve them to capitalise on the $2.2 trillion global eCommerce opportunity by embracing payments innovation.

Numerix, the leading provider of cross-asset analytics for derivatives valuations and risk management today announces the availability of its solution to help banks comply with the Basel Committee’s regulatory requirement for Counterparty Credit Risk (SA-CCR) Capital ahead of the January 2017 implementation deadline.

Markit, a leading global provider of financial information services today announced a partnership with BitSight Technologies, the standard in Security Ratings, to enhance its Know Your Third Party (KY3P) platform. The integration of BitSight data will enable organisations such as banks and buyside firms to access daily security ratings, review industry benchmarks and take action to remediate security vulnerabilities.

As banking organisations, financial services providers and brands predict and plan for the way consumers will manage their money in the future, artificial intelligence (AI) is high on the business development strategy for 2016 and beyond. 

On May 25^th, DBS, POSB, OCBC, UOB and SCB launched Apple Pay in Singapore and Visa customers can now use their payment credentials anywhere Visa payWave is enabled. This launch has many implications for the future of payments. Over the next five years, there is no doubt that the financial industry will continue to re-invent itself, and perhaps, at a much faster pace. 

In a global and networked marketplace, risk management is becoming crucial to businesses worldwide. The increase of compliance requirements, such as KYC, KYB, AML (anti-money-laundering), and EDD (enhanced due diligence), is driven both by regulatory changes and the commercial need to avoid business disruptions. Risk and procurement teams seek early detection of risks throughout the supply chain and require effective cloud-based tools.