Five countries stand out in the development of financial technologies in Southeast Asia. In the context of the growing focus on financial inclusion, fintech lending services will provide a determining vector, predicts the international financial holding Robocash Group. 

 TIBCO Software Inc., a global leader in integration, API management, and analytics, today announced the launch of cloud-native TIBCO Cloud™ Mashery®, TIBCO’s API management offering for containerised private cloud and public Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) environments.

World-leading biometrics company, Fingerprint Cards AB (Fingerprints™) announces its Biometric Software Platform for payments, named FPC-BEP, targeting payment cards, wearables and USB dongles. The platform has been tailored to optimize the performance of its small and power-efficient biometric sensors for payments, which include the FPC1300-series and T-Shape™ module.

Today Ortec Finance, a market-leading provider of quantitative modeling software for the global wealth management sector, has launched its goal-based financial planning software – OPAL — on Salesforce AppExchange, the world's leading enterprise cloud marketplace. With this solution, Ortec Finance will deliver institutional-grade wealth management capabilities and assisted robo-advice in wealth planning with involvement of a relationship manager.

A staggering 75 per cent of consumers would not know what to do if they fell victim to cybercrime. According to the Affinion Cybercrime SOS report, despite high levels of concern and awareness, there is widespread confusion about where the lines of responsibility fall and who to turn to.

New research by Maistro, the AI-driven B2B marketplace for services, has revealed that over half of UK companies (57%) think that upgrading their IT systems is a vital factor for improving efficiency and achieving their short term business objectives.

By comparison, only 37% of businesses based in Switzerland and 42% in France agreed when asked the same question, indicating that the UK feels it has further to go than its European counterparts when it comes to upgrading technology.  

World-leading biometrics company, Fingerprint Cards AB (Fingerprints™) announces its Biometric Software Platform for payments, named FPC-BEP, targeting payment cards, wearables and USB dongles. The platform has been tailored to optimize the performance of its small and power-efficient biometric sensors for payments, which include the FPC1300-series and T-Shape™ module.

RPA is becoming a large talking point, as the industry has already started to acknowledge the opportunities it presents. Considering the back office in energy and commodity trading firms largely consists of repetitive and menial manual labour tasks, it is a function that lends itself to the implementation of RPA. This gives rise to operational efficiency, as it cost-effectively completes the manual labour work, in turn freeing up the time of employees to focus on more engaging tasks that rely on human instinct.

Warsaw, Poland, February 19, 2019. For the second year in a row, IKO, the mobile app of the CEE financial industry giant PKO Bank Polski, took top spot in a global industry ranking of mobile apps of 100 worldwide banks.

The rapid pace of digital transformation has left many industries scrambling to find secure, convenient ways of establishing identity for digital services.The identity ecosystem has become fragmented and complex, with too many stop-gap solutions creating and propagating vulnerabilities and friction.