Serrala, a global provider of software solutions for inbound and outbound payments and automated finance processes, announced its participation at the Sibos Conference 2019 in London on September 23-26. In a pre-event, hosted by Global Finance Magazine on September 25, the B2B fintech will officially receive the award for “Best White Label System Provider – Non-Bank 2019” for its BCrest solutions. 

Serrala will present BCrest and other solutions for corporate payments and banks at booth U138. Focus topics are

Foxley Kingham, Luton-based chartered accountants and business advisers, are delighted to announce the appointment of tax consultant Phil Stevens, who has joined the company in the role of Tax Director.

Phil will provide technical tax support to clients and colleagues and will help to expand both the tax department and Foxley Kingham as a whole. His role will lead the planning and delivery of tax compliance and advisory services and help shape the company’s tax strategy to ensure the firm continues to anticipate client requirements and deliver best practice advice.

When Satoshi Nakamoto solved the Byzantine General's problem in 2008 by inventing the Proof of Work consensus mechanism, not only did the world come to know what is today collectively known as Bitcoin, it received something which triggered a profound and irreversible chain of events. Few of us knew and even fewer dared to imagine that the solution to a mathematical problem would be the key to decipher a myriad of social, economic, and political issues. This is the essence of blockchain.

Every day the FAA’s Air Traffic Organization provides service to more than 44,000 flights and 2.7 million airline passengers across more than 29 million square miles of airspace. To support its mission critical debriefing, incident handling and continuous improvement NICE (Nasdaq: NICE) today announced that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has chosen NICE to support the rapidly evolving air traffic control requirements, awarding it a ten year contract with a potential value of up to $137 million.

Open banking platform Tink is calling for National Competent Authorities (NCAs) - the national bodies responsible for overseeing PSD2 in EU member states - to be flexible around the implementation deadline for PSD2 in a bid to avoid a ‘cliff-edge’ scenario after the final deadline on 14 September.

Financial crime and compliance software firm TruNarrative has been appointed by cutting-edge banking app Tally®, to enhance the customer onboarding and identity verification processes.

Tally® is the first banking app to offer consumers an alternative physical asset currency for everyday spending – where one Tally® is one milligram of vaulted gold owned by the customer – through the Tally® platform and debit Mastercard®, like a regular bank account. Tally® is not a cryptocurrency.

Capacity officially introduced its secure, AI-native knowledge-sharing platform. Designed to meet the expectations of today’s workforce, Capacity is a cloud-based system built on AI that captures, mines, and connects organizational knowledge to maximize employee productivity. The company also announced that it raised $13.2 million in Series B funding from a Midwest network of private and angel investors to help support company growth and scale its technology.

Ivalua, a global leader in spend management, today announced that Pascal Bensoussan has joined its Executive team as Chief Product Officer. In this newly created role, Bensoussan will focus on leading the overall vision, strategy, roadmap, and go-to-market plans for Ivalua’s cloud-based platform.

Standard Chartered Bank and SAP Ariba today announced a strategic collaboration to make the Bank’s financial supply chain solutions easily accessible to businesses in the Asia Pacific region through Ariba Network, the world’s largest digital business network connecting more than 4.2 million companies in 190 countries.

Back in 1958, the average lifespan for a company stood at 61 years. But today, things couldn’t be more different.