Abacus Group, a leading provider of hosted IT solutions and services for alternative investment firms, is pleased to announce that four of its managers have been selected as finalists in the 5^th Annual Markets Choice Awards: Women in Finance, presented by Markets Media Group.

 Ledger, the global leader in security and infrastructure solutions for digital assets and blockchain applications, today obtained a crime insurance policy covering digital assets secured by the Ledger Vault platform.

Nomura Research Institute, Ltd. (NRI), a leading provider of consulting services and system solutions, announced today they will launch Shingan AD, a new service providing institutional investors with Japanese alternative data and data analysis on December 1^st, 2019

The use of alternative data in investment decision-making is growing rapidly. Sourcing, cleansing, and preparing large amount of data for analysis presents a big challenge for institutional investors who are looking for untapped alpha.

 Caspian, the full-stack crypto trading and portfolio management platform for institutional investors and sophisticated traders, today announced it has partnered with Tagomi the leading global digital assets prime broker.

The two industry captains are set to shake up the crypto market with a new standard of crypto trading. The partnership will create the safest, most efficient and easy to access full end to end trading solution for institutional investors participating in crypto currency markets.

The payments industry is seeing a massive global surge in the implementation or modernisation of Immediate Payment systems. These systems challenge the status quo, and when used effectively create real opportunities for financial institutions to improve service and/or develop new business opportunities.

In Ovum’s 2018 Payments Report (2018 Global Payments Insight Survey: Cross-vertical) there were some telling statistics demonstrating the direction of travel for the payments and banking industry:

There are widespread misconceptions about Artificial Intelligence (AI), including its powers and what it can and can’t do. Which means that potential users may have unrealistic expectations of what they will see when they’re presented with AI. For some, it conjures up images of robots, while others expect it to be able to solve all problems and automatically understand numerous manual processes and tasks without training or configuration. The truth is that while AI has advanced exponentially over the last decade, it is still really in its infancy.

Moorwand, a dedicated BIN sponsor that turns compliance into a competitive advantage, today announced that it is providing BIN sponsorship and card issuing services to Sunrate Partners Limited, a world-class foreign exchange and global payments provider.

DataRobot, the leader in enterprise AI, has partnered with Kx to offer

BOKIS, a Danish payment and card company representing 57 domestic banks, and Nets, a market leader in the payments industry, have entered into a new five-year agreement. This means that BOKIS member banks will continue to issue and process the Danish domestic card, Dankort. Additionally, the companies have renewed their processing agreement for international payment cards.