Technavio analysts forecast the global analytics and risk compliance solutions for banking market to grow at a CAGR of more than 17% during the forecast period, according to their latest report.

The research study covers the present scenario and growth prospects of the global analytics and risk compliance solutions for banking market for 2016-2020. To determine the market size, the study considers revenue generated from the Americas, APAC, and EMEA.

Tis the season to be jolly and, in that spirit, I thought it was time to update some of our Christmas songs.  Here’s the revised version of the twelve days of Christmas ….

On the first day of Christmas

my big bank sent to me:

A diamond in an APR loan.

On the second day of Christmas

my big bank sent to me:

Two Coders

and a diamond in an APR loan.

On the third day of Christmas

my big bank sent to me:

Three Traders

Two Coders

and a diamond in an APR loan.

Financial IT speaks with Stuart Lacey, CEO & Founder of Trunomi at Fintech Connect Live 2016 Part II 

Financial IT speaks with Stuart Lacey, CEO & Founder of Trunomi at Fintech Connect Live 2016 

In March of the coming year blockchain developers and entrepreneurs will get together at Blockchain & Bitcoin Conference Tallinn to listen to the founding director of Bitcoin Foundation, fintech columnist with Forbes Magazine Jon Matonis.

The independent cryptocurrency and blockchain analyst whose career has included influential posts at VISA International and fintech companies will speak about prospects of blockchain consortiums.

QNB Group has published its China Economic Insight 2016 report. The report examines recent developments and the outlook for the Chinese economy as concerns about mounting corporate debt and overheating property prices force the government to scale back stimulus.

Real GDP growth has fallen steadily in recent years, eroded by slower growth in private investment and weak external demand, which has prompted the government to support the economy through public investment and easier monetary policy.

Single Stock Option Contracts were introduced for the first time at Tehran Stock Exchange on 18 December 2016.

The call option contracts started trading on the above date, and it is expected to shortly develop put option market as well.

The existing option contracts are exercised as European options.

On the first day of trading, more than 15000 contracts were traded in 270 transactions at the total value of IRR 25 Billion.

Immediate payments is the need of the hour today. With instant payments, you have a transaction that takes place within seconds without error, also with an immediate confirmation to the buyer and the seller.

In my previous blog, I have elucidated some use cases for Instant payments for Consumers and Business.

Ebix, Inc., a leading international supplier of On-Demand software and E-commerce services to the insurance, financial, e-governance and healthcare industries, today announced that it has acquired Rio De Janeiro based WDev Soluções em Tecnologia S/A, with the goal of becoming the largest one-stop insurance software services provider in Brazil, while offering a wider repertoire of insurance related software services to prospective clients in Latin American markets.

The referendum on Britain’s membership of the EU, a tumultuous US presidential campaign and ongoing events in the Middle East have once again revealed insecurities in the global economy as markets fluctuate sharply on an almost daily basis. Many markets in the Asia-Pacific region too, are experiencing a slowdown as manufacturing hubs have started to move to other, cheaper countries. Unfortunately, these types of macro-economic events can have a reverberating impact on industry because international supply chains are often the first to be affected.