Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), the bank of the world’s most innovative companies and their investors, today announced three senior hires in its specialty finance group. Emily Barron, former head of finance at Branch International, and Brian Foley, former managing director at Macquarie Group, will be responsible for co-leading warehouse credit solutions across the US.

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1. Fraudsters Innovate Too

In 2019, Authorised Push Payment Fraud (APP Fraud) rose by 40%, costing the UK £616 million.

Thanks to PSD2 and Open Banking, we will continue to see more new players in fintech. This is brilliant, but it means fraudsters will inevitably innovate their techniques, too. As a result, in 2020 we will see banks enhance their security and implement measures to protect customers, such as payment delays, SCA, 2FA and Confirmation of Payee.

Scality, leader in software solutions for global data orchestration and distributed file and object storage, today announced that the new IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Object-Based Storage 2019 Vendo

Forter was named the leader in e-commerce Fraud Prevention and rated the highest for Innovation in the 2020 Frost Radar in the U.S. e-commerce Fraud Prevention Market.

The gig economy is stronger than ever, and it’s important for anyone to recognize the benefits of working a side job that brings some extra money to the table. Sure, it’s often not something that can completely substitute your regular income, and it requires some luck to get things right in most cases. But if you play your cards right and know what you’re doing, this can definitely be a viable choice.

In the not too distant past, we would sign up for a current account post-school or university and still be carrying around the same worn debit card in our 30s and 40s. With very little differentiation between retail bank offerings combined with consumer inertia, there’s traditionally been very little competitive value in switching banks. As a result, High Street banks knew they could ‘keep customers for life’ with minimal effort.

Compuware Corporation, the leading provider of software for mainframe DevOps, today announced a CloudBees Technical Alliance Partner Program (TAPP) Premier Partnership and new advancements to Topaz that together enable organizations to quickly achieve low-risk, low-cost mainframe modernization by fully leveraging their existing mainframe resources.

Appian today announced the acquisition of Novayre Solutions SL, developer of the Jidoka RPA platform. Jidoka is currently the highest-rated RPA software on Gartner Peer Insights (>50 reviews). The acquisition makes Appian a one-stop shop for Automation, with best-in-class solutions for workflow, AI, and RPA.

3C Payment, a global Payment Service Provider, announced today that Michele Ferraris, will step down as CEO of the company effective 1st January 2020. He will be succeeded by Tim Goodwin who has been COO since 2016. Michele Ferraris, founder of 3C Payment in 2016, will take the role of Chairman of the board at 3C Payment Group.