Lacklustre customer experiences have plagued financial services products for some time. For years consumers have been left frustrated with the experience they get from their banks. Other than the government, financial services has the lowest ranking customer experience. 

Horizon Software a leading provider of electronic trading solutions and algorithmic technology, is making its trading and algo solutions available in the fast-growing Vietnam market.

Throughout the pandemic, capital has poured into the Vietnamese stock market – surging 20% to US$16.64 billion last year. With average transaction value estimated at US$304.8 million per session, up 51.5% year-on-year, the market is set for greater electronification.

Next gen core banking platform Yobota has announced the appointment of Ion Fratiloiu as its new Head of Sales. 

Ion boasts significant sales experience, having led sales growth for the likes of FTSE500 US fintech organisation Fiserv as part of its expansion into new territories across Eastern Europe. 

Bitcoin has been in the spotlight for the last year due to its massive bull market phase and, it's the previous halving that happened on May 11th, 2020. It should be noted that one of the contributing factors for this bull run is Bitcoin halving, so here we explain why this event is very important for the entire blockchain network and what are the main advantages that Bitcoin users can expect when bitcoin halving happens.

What is Bitcoin Halving?

Traditional security strategies that financial institutions have relied on for years are being challenged by digital transformation. A remarkable 68% of banking and financial executives believe their distributed workforces introduced new vulnerabilities.

In the UK, over the past 12 months, the share of Square businesses that are cashless has risen by more than 4x. This time last year only one in 10 UK businesses using Square were cashless, whereas now nearly 5 in 10 are cashless. This is according to Square’s Cash and the Pandemic 2.0 report which takes a look back over the last year at what’s changed, what’s new, and what could be here to stay when it comes to how small businesses in the UK manage payments. 

Spectra Logic today announced that Imperial War Museums (IWM) deployed Spectra StorCycle^® Storage Lifecycle Management Software to enhance its existing storage infrastructure, which supports its audio-visual and exhibitions departments to preserve invaluable data, including thousands of films, videotapes, audio recordings and photographs that would otherwise disintegrate and be lost forever were they not d

Announced today, UniCredit has made several key appointments to further strengthen the bank’s GTB expertise and client service offering. The appointments are as follows: