KAS BANK, the specialist provider of securities services to the UK pension industry, has expanded its growing business development team with the appointment of Henry Crofton as business development manager.

Henry has a wealth of experience within the financial services industry, focussing in both institutional and private client sectors. Prior to joining KAS BANK, he has worked as institutional relationships manager at London & Capital and as institutional sales executive at SEI Investments (Europe) Ltd.

Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. and Northern Trust have reached an agreement for Northern Trust to transfer its distributed ledger technology (DLT) platform for private equity (PE) asset servicing to Broadridge, marking a significant step toward delivering an industry-wide PE blockchain solution.

GoCardless, a global leader in recurring payments, has today released research into consumer attitudes around security and convenience when buying online. The findings reveal that UK consumers are torn between valuing convenience and security when making purchases online – but they value “speed and ease of payment” more than their European counterparts.

Global analytic software firm FICO was part of a team that won the Outstanding Business Impact Catalyst award from the industry association TM Forum, for a project aimed at assessing an applicant’s credit risk or the likelihood that a service application is fraudulent.

Cyber security provider F-Secure is creating a new unit dedicated to building on the company’s tradition of providing the best protection in the industry. The new team, called the Tactical Defense Unit, comprises of researchers and analysts responsible for operationalizing holistic protection strategies that ensure F-Secure’s award-winning products and services evolve faster than the threats facing people and organizations.

The web version of Lumi Wallet enables a built-in exchange of all cryptocurrencies, supported by the Lumi ecosystem.

Crypto wallets are simple in nature: they have to provide secure storage of your assets, easy navigation between them, hassle-free transfer and exchange. App wallets are handy, however, web versions aren’t going to disappear in the near future, so the development of both has to stay even.

Couchbase, Inc. today proudly announced the opening of its new facility in Manchester, UK. Couchbase, recognised by Forbes as one of the next billion-dollar startups due to strong growth and future potential, has chosen to expand its presence in the city to meet the growing demand for its enterprise-class multi-cloud NoSQL database in the EMEA region.

ACI Worldwide, one of the leading companies in the fintech world, has provided cutting-edge solutions for the financial services industry since 1975. ACI powers e-payments for financial institutions, intermediaries, retailers and billers. ACI’s Payments Intelligence solution portfolio is structured to provide the artefacts that empower organizations to make timely and contextualized decisions to combat existing and emerging cybercriminal threats accurately.

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Today P27 Nordic Payments Platform (owned by Danske Bank, Handelsbanken, Nordea, OP Financial Group, SEB and Swedbank) and Mastercard have announced a partnership to provide real-time and batch payments across the Nordic markets; building the most advanced, innovative and efficient payments system in the world.

By working together the partnership will connect people across the cluster of countries using multiple currencies. This bold ambition will transform how money moves for consumers, businesses, society, and the payments industry itself.

Cloudian® today announced a joint solution with Seagate Technology to provide industry-leading storage density, scalability and economics for private cloud infrastructures with capacity needs of multi-petabytes to an exabyte. The new solution—Cloudian HyperStore® Xtreme, Powered by Seagate—combines Cloudian’s fully S3-compatible object storagesoftware with Seagate’s newest high-density storage systems to offer customers up to 70% lower total cost of ownership than Storage-as-a-Service options.