Connected Claims Europe 2018 returns to London this October (29^th & 30^th) to welcome 250+ senior insurance claims executives. The event is focussed on uncovering how insurers are taking steps to re-engineer the claims function to raise operational efficiency and improve customer experience.

Financial IT: What is the Unique Selling Proposition of identitii for the banking and financial industry?

The Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council (PCI SCC) recently announced the release of their new PCI Data Security Essentials Evaluation Tool for small merchants.  

Nomura Research Institute, Ltd. (NRI), a leading provider of consulting services and system solutions, and Sony Life Insurance Co., Ltd. (Sony Life Insurance) today announced that NRI has completed the development and operation of a portion of Sony Life Insurance’s Customer Center systems onto the public cloud. NRI will be managing operation of the public cloud environment, which will be hosted on Microsoft Azure (Azure).

Ethoca, the industry standard for collaboration-based technology solutions that enable card issuers and online merchants to improve customer experience, increase card acceptance and stop ecommerce fraud and disputes, announced today that it has won “Most Innovative Online Solution”, “Vendor of the Year” and “Best Collaborative Solution – Highly Commended” at the 2018 Australian Fraud Awards.

Dr. David Hana, the attorney of Deals Secure Group Holding Company, announced today that the group has officially moved from the United States of America to Kuwait after all shares were fully repurchased from  the other owners in favor of Kuwaiti businessman, Dr. Faisal Khazaal.  Negotiating the repurchase went on from the beginning of 2016 and ended on Monday, July 30, 2018, when the last shareholder transferred the last share in the market.

Gemalto (Euronext NL0000400653 - GTO), the world leader in digital security today announces its results for the first semester 2018.

PensionBee provides a solution for people who change their jobs often and may leave their pensions behind. PensionBee FinTech start-up has been established in UK and aims to deliver its services to UK pension savers, while planning to expand further. The project's main mission is to make pension management as simple as possible.

PensionBee Personal Pension aims to:

Sodexo, world leader in Quality of Life services, announces that Angelo Piccirillo has been named Group General Counsel as of September 1st, 2018. Piccirillo will assume responsibility for leading the Global Transversal Legal function, including the Group and Regional legal teams. He succeeds Bob Stern, who is retiring as of August 31, 2018 after 33 years in the company.

Ebury has become the first FinTech to go live with SWIFT’s global payments innovation (gpi). The move marks an important milestone for SWIFT gpi with new entrants now joining up in addition to traditional banks, evidencing the widespread appeal of the new service. Half of gpi payments are credited within 30 minutes, many within seconds – and almost 100% within 24 hours – enabling Ebury’s clients to fast-track their international payments.