Information is everywhere, we all know it and we all accept the ubiquitous proliferation of digital platforms, tools and devices that exist in almost every aspect of our lives. Yet, despite this mostly willing embrace that we all exhibit, there are instances of data analytics management in organisations across every vertical that are less than optimal and poorly provisioned for future scalability, adaptability and all-round applicability.

Worldline, the European leader in the payments and transactional services industry and number 4 worldwide, today announced it has developed and launched a chatbot for Mexico’s eco-friendly theme park Grupo Xcaret, powering conversational commerce. The chatbot is now live, allowing visitors to chat, research and pay through the messaging bot, while reducing re-directs to mobile websites, which cause significant friction and empty shopping carts.

Eventus Systems, Inc., an award-winning global provider of multi-asset class trade surveillance and market risk solutions, announced today that First New York, a multi-asset class investment firm, has deployed the Validus platform to meet its global trade surveillance needs. The firm has begun using the cloud-based version of the platform for futures and will soon leverage Validus to surveil all of its equities and equity options trading activity as well.

Infor today announced that SanMar Corporation, the largest supplier of apparel and other soft goods to the imprinted sportswear and promotional products industries, has selected cloud-based Infor Nexus Financial Supply Chain Management solutions to streamline collaboration with trading partners for greater visibility and control of orders, statuses and payments. The ability to collaborate on purchase orders more easily, automate invoices and perform N-way matching in a digita

Fast-growing forex and CFD provider Skilling has announced that it is eliminating overnight fees on stock CFD trades for the month of February. The announcement comes on the heels of the company adding many more stocks for its customers to trade, now totalling over 700 companies.  

Finzly, a fintech provider of modern banking applications for payments, foreign exchange, trade finance and digital account opening, announced today that Lead Bank has implemented Finzly’s Payment Hub to enhance the bank’s payment and digital capabilities.

Utimaco, a leading global provider of IT security solutions, introduces its next generation HSM platform u.trust Anchor, a robust and converged hardware security module (HSM) platform for both payment and general purpose use cases that enables Cloud Service Providers and Enterprises to offer HSM as a Service (HSMaaS).

Finastra today announced the availability of NetGuardians’ Payment Fraud Prevention app on its FusionFabric.cloud open development platform. The app uses artificial intelligence to proactively detect fraudulent payments in real-time and reduce fraud losses.

JCB International Co., Ltd., the international operations subsidiary of JCB Co., Ltd., Japan’s only international payment brand, and Worldline, a European leader in the payments and transactional services industry, announce the expansion of their partnership. This established relationship has pivoted to support both the exchange of global ecommerce and the growth of JCB Contactless enablement across Europe.

ClauseMatch, the global regulatory technology (RegTech) company automating policy management and regulatory compliance at financial institutions and other regulated organisations, today officially announced the launch of its Policy Portal for employees. After the first day of the soft launch of the ClauseMatch portal, the company saw the immediate adoption of the tool across all of the clients with the users of the portal growing from zero to almost 170,000. The number of users is forecasted to reach 250,000 by the end of the first quarter.