SAS has joined the Middle East NXT Banking Summit as the Strategic Analytics Partner. The event, which is organized by Alpha One Events, is scheduled on September 26 & 27’ 2017 at The Address Dubai Marina in Dubai, UAE. The event will bring together industry leaders to explore the impact of futuristic banking technology innovation along with partnerships and collaboration with fintech can transform the customer value chain across the Middle East.

The global financial services market may be well on the road to recovery from the 2008 economic crisis, yet the past few years have seen much turmoil; with regulations, security and increasing competition on the agenda of every financial sector CxO in the industry. We see emerging digital-first fintech players such as Fidor, Tandem and Starling, shaking up the market.

Europe has a new mobile payment method: Wirecard will enable European retailers to accept WeChat Pay, one of the leading mobile payment solution in China. 

Euronext announces today the closing of the acquisition of a 60% stake in iBabs, a leading Dutch provider of dematerialised board portal solutions for corporates and public organisations , for a consideration of €30.1 million.

Mioying Technology (MioTech), a big data solutions provider for asset management firms, announced today an agreement with Silverhorn Investment Advisors to deliver its industry-leading big data asset management platform in assistance of managing Silverhorn's client assets.

Oman Arab Bank (OAB) has committed to deploy FusionBanking Essence from Finastra in each of its 65 branches and representative offices across the Sultanate. The bank, which is the third largest in Oman, will transition from its current FusionBanking Equation platform as it diversifies its business to accelerate growth and renews its focus on customer-centricity.

Many global business decision makers are unaware of the implications of the forthcoming General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), as well as other compliance regulations like PCI-DSS and ISO27001/2, with one in five admitting they do not know which regulations their organization is subject to.