Aquis Exchange PLC (AQX.L), the exchange services group, which operates the pan-European cash equities trading business, Aquis Exchange, today announces that renowned business commentator David Buik will join the Company as a Consultant on 2 March 2020. 

AxiomSL, the industry’s leading provider of risk and regulatory reporting solutions, announces an agreement with a global financial institution in France to implement AxiomSL’s Global Shareholding Disclosures (GSD) solution on its data integrity and control platform, ControllerView. The firm is part of a leading Tier-1 French banking group that engages in a range of banking activities, including global asset management.

Glantus, a global provider of financial automation and data intelligence solutions, is today announcing that it has acquired JPD Financial, the industry leader in Vendor Credit Recovery ® services. The acquisition will bring new levels of automation and AI to credit recovery and financial processing offered to global businesses and shared services units.

The acquisition of JPD Financial creates a business with a turnover of approximately $12m, and brings global service delivery expertise to the Glantus family of companies

IDEX Biometrics ASA, a leading provider of advanced fingerprint identification and authentication solutions, today announced the launch of TrustedBio™ — a new family of dual-interface products and solutions designed to reduce biometric smartcard cost while improving both performance and security.

Following an agreement between Network International, the leading enabler of digital commerce across the Middle East and Africa (MEA) region and Tencent Holdings Limited, official developer of WeChat Pay, the mobile payment service will soon be widely available to Network’s merchant partners across the UAE.

Identity theft is when a person steals another person’s private and personal information, generally to make money from it. You probably already knew this, but have you heard of synthetic identity theft? This is a bit different.

With synthetic identity theft, a person creates a new and very fake identity by combining the real information from a person with made-up information. You might not think this is a big deal, but it can be very bad for anyone who has their identity stolen.

Here are three ways that ID thieves can create synthetic identities:

IHS Markit (NYSE: INFO), a world leader in critical information, analytics and solutions, in collaboration with the Saudi Stock Exchange (Tadawul), today announced the launch of the iBoxx Tadawul SAR Government Sukuk Index, a riyal-denominated index aimed at tracking the performance of Saudi government Sukuks. The index is the first of a series of benchmarks for Saudi government Sukuks to be created using Tadawul’s market data and the bond pricing expertise of IHS Markit.

ICSFS, a leading universal core banking provider, with over 100 customers across the Middle East, Africa, South East Asia, Central Asia and Europe, invests in its software suites by utilising modern technology in launching new products, constructing a secured and agile integration, and keeping pace with new standards and regulations worldwide.