DriveWealth Holdings, Inc., a leader in global digital trading technology, today announced the appointment this week of Julie Coin to the new position of President. Coin brings more than 20 years of experience in the financial services industry, where she has held various leadership roles in strategy, transformation management and operations at companies including Galaxy Digital, E*Trade Financial Corporation, Deutsche Bank and

Allevo is one of the 5 companies selected to participate in the BCR-InnovX Accelerator Program for Scale-ups (companies with turnover between EUR 1 mil. and 2,6 mil.). The programis a project initiated by InnovX, sponsored by BCR (member of Erste Group), and run in colaboration with UiPath, Mindspace and Startup Grind in partnership with Google for Startups.

BMLL Technologies, the Data-Engineering-as-a-Service company today announced that Lee Hodgkinson, CEO of OSTC, a leading global derivative trading and education firm, is joining the board as Chairman, having been appointed a non-executive Director.  Lee’s practical industry and exchange experience complements the firm’s existing data engineering and analytics capabilities and supports BMLL’s growth ambitions to provide more capital markets participants with data access and advanced analytics capacity.

Fiserv, Inc. (NASDAQ: FISV), a leading global provider of payments and financial services technology solutions, announced today that Portuguese bank, NOVO BANCO, will consolidate their existing payments infrastructure and deploy end-to-end billing and payment capabilities using technology from Fiserv. This initiative, undertaken as part of the bank’s overall IT and payments transformation program, will allow the bank to decommission multiple inflexible legacy systems and build an efficient, scalable modern payments architecture.

Wealth management fintech firm, JHC Systems (JHC) has appointed Andrew Watson to the newly created position of Chief Product Officer (CPO).

Previously Head of Product Strategy and Regulatory Change at JHC, Watson has been the driving force behind JHC’s newly launched Digital Wealth Platform. During his 18 years at the firm, he has also been responsible for guiding JHC and its clients through a complex regulatory landscape including MiFID II and GDPR.   

VERMEG, the global banking, insurance and digital transformation leader announces that AgileREPORTER has been awarded Best Regulatory Reporting Management Solution at the Grant Thornton UK LLP RegTech Index launch.

The RegTech Index is designed to assist discerning firms achieve an immediate short-list of solutions that are not only best in class regulatory technology in themselves, but that are also provided by a vendor with a track record of client service and corporate responsibility.

IoT is one of the fastest growing trends in technology today, yet enterprises are leaving themselves vulnerable to dangerous cyberattacks by failing to prioritise PKI security, according to new research from nCipher Security, an Entrust Datacard company. 

The new report “The Payments Transformation Race: Criteria for Success” from Aite and Icon Solutions identified that banks that have a clear and robust payments transformation plan are more profitable than their competitors – effectively widening the gap between the winners and losers in the transformation race. So how does a bank become one of the winners?

The current challenges

Financial IT speaks with Amr Soliman, CEO, Corzap about SWIFT gpi compliance at Sibos 2019

 Finablr PLC, a global platform for payments, and Samsung Electronics America today introduced the Money Transfer feature in Samsung Pay. This new in-app international money transfer service, a first of its kind in the U.S., offers users seamless and secure cross-border payments to 47 countries through a variety of payout methods, all within Samsung’s native mobile wallet.