I am an optimist. You don’t have to look too far for proof of that. I opened the doors to UFT Commercial Finance in June of 2008 and found myself just a few short months later looking down the throat of a market monster that promised to swallow our new little business up whole. No ceremony. No remorse. Just the simple laws of economic selection; the young and the small are the first to fall.  In a market environment that was successfully taking down the oldest, the biggest, and what were supposed to be the strongest, most people would have said we didn’t stand a chance – and they probably w

 Perficient, Inc., the leading digital transformation consulting firm serving Global 2000® and other large enterprise customers throughout North America, today announced it has acquired Bluetube, a $7 million annual-services-revenue digital consultancy with deep expertise in enterprise mobile applications.

The acquisition is expected to be accretive to adjusted earnings per share immediately.

Kount, a leading provider of fraud detection and sales boosting technology, announced today that it is now fully compliant with the EU-US Privacy Shield Framework for protection of EU-US data transfers, which replaced the longstanding International Safe Harbour Privacy Principles in July 2016.

 Sherida Brandon, Head of Payments, Tieto talks about best practices of re-engineering banks' payment platforms and how Tieto can help the banks to achieve their goals at Sibos 2016.

OANDA, a global leader in online multi-asset trading services, commemorates its 20th anniversary with the launch of v20. This proprietary, state-of-the-art trading engine offers an unparalleled trading experience – v20’s execution speed is now a stunning 1.3 milliseconds¹, which is four times faster than the legacy trading engine and, for comparison,1/30th of the blink of an eye.

TrueMoney, a subsidiary of Ascend Group, announces the launch of TrueMoney Myanmar and the launch of its fund transfer solution, TrueMoney Transfer.

UK — CEX.IO Bitcoin exchange launched today BTC/USD and ETH/BTC margin trading with 1:2 and 1:3 leverages on its platform. The exchange has developed a special risk-preventing system that guarantees that margin trading cannot move user’s balance to negative values.

BT and Toshiba today opened the UK’s first secure quantum communication showcase at BT’s research and development centre in Ipswich.

The showcase sees the two companies demonstrate cutting edge quantum cryptography, which can be used to protect digital information transported within banks and financial services organisations from hacking.

Path Solutions was the Gold Sponsor of the Egyptian Collegiate Programming Contest (ECPC), which was held successfully on the 8^th & 9^th of October at the Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport (AASTMT), Abu Qir Campus in Alexandria, Egypt.

For the 21^st century company, diversity is a fundamental element of corporate culture, a driving force for success in a rapidly changing economy, and one of the central paradigms of our era. To prosper and thrive in today’s global economy, companies must resonate with an increasingly diverse customer base. They must foster diversity internally and approach partnership in a more expansive and inclusive manner. Diversity must be seen as a core value and be deeply embedded in corporate culture.