Asia: where energy meets innovation

The Philippines and its neighbouring countries are among the most exciting ATM markets in the world. Banks are expanding their networks rapidly and are in a position to take advantage of the wide range of innovative solutions that today’s digital ecosystem has to offer. Low levels of banking penetration means that the opportunities to reach new customers are huge.

Local and international banks share ideas and perspectives

Gemalto, the world leader in digital security, has teamed up with Easy, the largest transport app solution in Latin America, available in 12 countries, to greatly improve the quality of mobile services in Brazil. More than 150,000 taxi drivers in Brazil will use Gemalto's CE Quality of Experience (QoE) solution to collect Key Performance Indicators from mobile devices as they travel throughout 24 major cities.

 Munnypot, a new service offering clear, affordable online financial advice to all is live from today.

Munnypot’s founders aim to help close Britain’s financial advice gap, which affects 16 million people¹, by making high quality advice available to everyone.

Munnypot is an online savings and investment service giving anyone straightforward automated financial advice in a language they can understand, at a fraction of the cost of most financial advisers. The service requires a minimum investment of £25 per month and/or a £250 single investment amount.

GlobalPlatform has defined a standardized communications interface between web applications and secure element (SEs), which will enable developers of web services to build in advanced security features to protect online services against many types of attack and fraud.

Banks around the world are working to develop, launch or expand the mobile payments services they offer to their customers. Many issuers already support the ‘OEM Pays’ – Apple Pay, Android Pay and Samsung Pay – and many more will seek to as they roll-out into other countries.

Compliance for Mobile Messaging KyoLAB bridges the gap between compliance and mobile messaging for regulated financial services. KyoLAB’s platform offers monitoring and archiving, as well as real-time Compliance alerts and analytics, for popular mobile messaging apps such as WhatsApp, WeChat, Facebook Messenger, Skype Mobile, Yahoo Mobile, iMessage, and others. Our aim is to be the reference solution for popular mobile messaging with respect to compliant audit trail and dispute resolution.

Calypso Technology, Inc., a leading provider of capital markets and investment management software, announced today it has launched a new Cloud Services Division featuring a comprehensive lineup of Cloud solutions.

“Our goal is to provide our clients with solutions that meet their unique needs and allow them to focus on their customers rather than on their IT infrastructure. Financial institutions are increasingly embracing Cloud strategies to improve agility, reduce costs, and accelerate compliance, and they need a partner they can trust.”

Growth in the off-site ATM sector is being driven by banks’ efforts to serve existing clients more cost-effectively, attract new customers and by the expansion of independent ATM deployers

Cost savings drive off-site ATM expansion

Globally, the share of ATMs located away from bank branches rose to 51% in 2015, according to RBR’s study Global ATM Market and Forecasts to 2021.

An agreement on the establishment in the UK of a global node for a standardized digital currency based on blockchain technology was formally signed at Central Hall Westminster on January 9. China's Puerbank Group delivered the new node that will function both from an operation as well as a technological viewpoint in line with a standardized system for digital currency. The group plans to collaborate with selected companies in the UK during the establishment of the node and in an interchange of various forms of assets valued at 5 billion yuan (approx. US$720 million).

RSRCHXchange, the online aggregator and marketplace for institutional research, today released the results of a survey analysing the readiness of asset managers for the research unbundling rules coming into effect in January 2018 as part of MiFID II. The survey was conducted towards the end of last year by polling company Survation, who canvassed the views of 234 respondents, representing over 200 firms and $15trn of AUM, making this the biggest survey of its kind.