Adyen, the payments platform of choice for many of the world’s leading companies, today announced that it has been named to the prestigious CNBC Disruptor 50 List of the leading private companies changing the world through innovation.  

Financial authorities and regulators around the globe are looking for new fast payment solutions. International card payment networks like Visa are already offering and expanding these solutions. Fast Transfers in payments networks are transactions initiated by a consumer or a business to send funds or pay using their existing Visa payment credentials; we call this transaction a Push Payment or user-initiated transfers.

Financial IT speaks to João Del Valle, Co-founder and Chief Operations Officer of EBANX.

Financial IT: Could you please tell us more about EBANX and the career path that brought you to launching EBANX?

Rahul Singh, President and Global Head, Financial Services at HCL Technologies highlights how HCL is helping Financial Services Institutions adopt new FinTech trends and explains the way technology is changing in the Financial Services industry.

CaseWare UK Ltd, an accounting software provider to corporates and practitioners, is announcing the launch of its fully automated International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) solution at Accountex London 2018.

The IFRS Beta solution is part of CaseWare’s AccountsAdvanced, and is being released on 23 May 2018 to current CaseWare licence holders, with the full solution scheduled to be made available later in 2018.

Secure cloud processing of financial institutions’ material non-public information (MNPI) for purposes of regulatory and risk reporting

A sophisticated combination of technical architecture and operational processes

The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) 10th annual Global Survey shows that 60% of banks are moving towards greater digitalisation, though only 9% say technology solutions have so far increased efficiency. 
Over 60% of banks surveyed in the new ICC report—Global Trade: Securing Future Growth—reported to have implemented, or to be in the process of implementing, technology solutions to digitalise their trade finance operations. 

A new research report released today reveals that 50% of UK accountants say they would be “comfortable” working alongside a “robot colleague” in their job. However, 32% say they don’t know how they would feel working with a robot colleague, with 18% stating they would be “uncomfortable”.

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Last century, one of most dramatic changes to the banking ecosystem was the integration of digital technology, both with back office and customer-facing systems. Today, we are entering a whole new phase. Customer demographics are shifting as technologies evolve, giving rise to a digitised market dynamic and a new playground for financial services, one that offers challenges and opportunities for banks and financial institutions that didn’t exist just a few years ago.

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