Two new IDC MarketScape reports name FICO TONBELLER, a division of leading analytics software firm FICO, a Leader in financial crime compliance:

 As executives struggle to understand their organisations’ exposure to cyber-risk, Huntsman Security has launched The Security Scorecard – the first tool of its kind to give instant visibility of an organisation’s Cyber Security Posture. The Scorecard is a standalone product that gives non IT people such as auditors, risk managers and senior executives a clear understanding of an entity’s cyber security exposure.

Temenos, the banking software company, has become the first vendor to win "Best Digital Banking Solution" at the Banker Africa – North Africa Banking Awards. Previously the awards have only gone to banks, making this the first vendor-specific award.

A wiser man than me once said that anyone attempting to make predictions will end up either wrong or lucky. In 2019, against a backdrop of uncertainty about the UK’s future relationship with its biggest trading partner that proverb holds true now, more than ever. 

This political uncertainty has led to reports of ebbing business confidence, subdued growth and reduced investment. All these metrics will recover in time, starting from when there is some certainty about the UK’s future direction of travel. 

2018 has been a turbulent year for banks in the UK. Physical branches are closing, with online and mobile channels becoming increasingly popular. Customers lost £500 millionto fraud in the first half of the year, and in July the Bank of England issued a warning to banks to get ready for future cyber-attacks.

New research from the Global Blockchain Business Council (GBBC), the leading association for the blockchain ecosystem, reveals that 26% of institutional investors believe major listed companies will have to start proactively reporting on their plans and ambitions around blockchain because investors will demand this. A further 38% anticipate they will start to have to do this between three and five years from now, and only 13% think companies will never have to do this. 

IBM and the Bank of the Philippine Islands signed a $260 million multi-year services agreement calling for IBM to provide IT services for agile IT and hybrid cloud, as well as development to accelerate BPI's digital transformation, IBM said Wednesday. 

Nasdaq Inc. (Nasdaq:NDAQ) and Bolsa de Valores de Panamá (BVP) have announced that BVP has successfully gone-live with its new trading system.