Authorize payment transactions by simply placing your finger on your credit card, securely and quickly. Sella is launching a trial of a biometric recognition credit card that, thanks to a small chip sensor, allows people to make payments by using their fingerprints.

Recognising the steady expansion and growth of the investment management industry, Clausematch, a global regulatory technology company, announced today it has rejoined the UK’s Investment Association.

Returning in front of IA partners, which are some of the largest wealth, investment, and asset managers in the world, allows Clausematch to spotlight its SaaS technology to help those organisations operate safely and bring compliant products to the market.

FICO’s latest report of UK card trends — for September 2022 — provides clear signs of consumer indebtedness as the cost of living crisis impacts finances.

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Azentio Software (“Azentio”), a Singapore-headquartered technology firm owned by funds advised by Apax Partners, announced today that it has won the ‘Excellence in Islamic Banking Solutions’ award at Finnovex Saudi Arabia 2022, for the Azentio ONEBanking Islamic Software Suite, industry-leading technology and best-selling Islamic core banking suite globally.

Cohesity has announced the addition of Kelly Bissell, CVP of Microsoft Security Services, to the Cohesity Security Advisory Council. As the council’s seventh member, Bissell brings nearly 30 years of experience in IT and cybersecurity with former security leadership roles at Accenture and Deloitte.

The government’s recent ‘mini-budget’ announcement caused huge shock waves across UK financial markets. In subsequent weeks this has driven the value of the pound downwards and interest rates and borrowing rates up significantly. The institute for Fiscal Studies called the market’s reaction to the proposals ‘worrying’, accusing then chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng of ‘gambling the house’.

Worldline, a global leader in payment services, and Neonomics have signed a commercial partnership to strengthen their open banking offerings across Europe. Worldline will now expand its account-to-account payments and data aggregation coverage to the Nordics through Neonomics, including Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland.

iMerit, a leading AI Data Solution company, recently culminated the second edition of its annual summit, iMerit ML DataOps Summit 2022 in partnership with TechCrunch. iMerit ML DataOps 2022, a virtual event, focused on the intersection of machine learning data operations and artificial intelligence. The summit aired virtually from the United States and Asia-Pacific on November 8th and November 9th, respectively.