Jumio, the creator of Netverify® Trusted Identity as a Service (TIaaS), continues to advance identity verification with the industry’s first web and mobile document verification solution, Netverify Document Verification.

SWIFT announces the successful migration of OeKB CSD (Austria), Clearstream Banking (Germany), LuxCSD (Luxembourg), Centrálny depozitár cenných papierov SR (CDCP) (Slovakia) and KDD - Centralna klirinško depotna družba (Slovenia) and their respective communities to live operations on T2S using its Value Added Network (VAN) Solution for T2S.

RelianceACSN today announced the appointment of several new members to its advisory board. Professor Nick Jennings, Dominic Raab MP, Tom Ilube and Paul Winstanley will bring expertise from academia, policy, business and defence to finalise the structure of RelianceACSN’s board.

Small and Medium sized businesses (i) (SMEs) in the United Kingdom and globally are confident about their future business performance, optimistic about the economy and believe they have the strategies in place to thrive in an age of uncertainty, according to the American Express® Global SME Pulse (ii).

Modern atomic clocks tick along much more consistently than the earth manages to rotate around its own axis, which varies due to climatic and geological events. Thus, every so often the global masters of time insert a leap-second in order to align atomic clocks and earth rotation.

Unlike changes in winter/summer-time, humans don’t really notice it. Even most software applications don’t care about it. However, trading platforms do care, because unique timestamps and sequence of events are highly important for them.

Towards the end of 2015, The Business Performance Innovation Network (BPI) conducted a survey of 250 executives. The survey found that while 70 per cent of business leaders realised that new technology has become more important to their success, 52 per cent thought that their IT departments were poor or only “just making progress”.

 Digital River World Payments, a global payments service provider, and ACI Worldwide (NASDAQ: ACIW), a leading global provider of real-time electronic payment and banking solutions, today announced an expanded relationship to provide ACI’s eCommerce fraud prevention solution to Digital River’s global merchant customers. By integrating its online payments platform with the ACI ReD Shield real-time fraud prevention solution, Digital River World Payments is extending the fraud detection capabilities it offers its global merchants.

I was in a long conversation about machine learning yesterday that will probably inspire a lot of blogging.  One of the key parts of the conversation was the integration of robotics and artificial intelligence.  When you can make love with a human being that doesn’t talk back, why would you want a real one?  Let’s not go there …

Nasdaq Inc. (NASDAQ: NDAQ) today announced that Nikolaj Kosakewitsch has been appointed President of Nasdaq Copenhagen A/S. Nikolaj joins Nasdaq from Carnegie Investment Bank, where he most recently served as Head of Securities, Denmark.

In addition to his new role as President of Nasdaq Copenhagen, Kosakewitsch will have the functional position as Head of Sales for Nasdaq European Equities, reporting to Lauri Rosendahl, Nasdaq’s Head of European Equities and President of Nasdaq Nordic.

All financial services firms want the ideal tech employee – someone who ‘gets’ the business and has years of sector experience as well as possessing high level technological skills. However, there are very few of these people in the market and attracting them could cost firms a small fortune. We’d encourage employers to open up their hiring strategies and perhaps target talent without that financial experience, as they may find they identify potentially game-changing employees that way.