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Black Friday has now extended to a six-day eCommerce festival, with Wednesday 22nd – Monday 27th November recorded as the six busiest shopping days of 2017, according to analysis by Ingenico, the global leader in seamless payment.
Sales peaked on Black Friday, where UK consumers spent a huge 515% more online than the average Friday in 2017 and nearly double that of Cyber Monday. In 2016, Cyber Monday transaction value was just 27% lower than Black Friday.
A new report by the Wi-SUN Alliance, a global member-based association driving the proliferation of interoperable wireless solutions for use in smart cities, smart utilities and other Internet of Things (IoT) applications, shows that half of organisations investing in IoT initiatives already have a fully implemented strategy in place, while more than a third (36%) have a partially implemented strategy.
Regal Assets, one of the world’s top rated alternative assets companies with offices in the US, Canada and the UAE, has now added Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum Classic, Ripple and Dash to its growing product line. On November 28, 2017 Regal Assets officially received the first ever Crypto-commodities license issued by the DMCC and is now able to handle trades in all major cryptos globally.
New research from Ovum, the market-leading research and consulting firm, reveals that North American commercial banks are continuing to increase their investment in real-time payments (RTP). The report “The rise of real-time payments in North America”, commissioned by Icon Solutions is based on responses from more than 7,000 CIOs and other senior IT decision makers.
Financial blockchain corporation Finom AG today announced the launch of its $101 million tokenized equity offering to be executed pursuant to Regulation D of the U.S. Securities Act of 1933. Finom makes the world of finance available to everyone by providing a blockchain ecosystem with a single point of entry.
Mitratech, a leading provider of legal, compliance, and risk management software solutions, today announced that its enterprise legal management (ELM) products have earned distinctions as Market Leaders and Highly Innovative products in the 2017 MarketView(TM) Report on Enterprise Legal Management by
Temenos, the software specialist for banking and finance, today announces that Itaú Unibanco Holding SA (Itaú), Latin America’s largest banking group, has selected Temenos’ WealthSuite for its international private banking operations. The highly scalable solution combines Itaú’s core banking, portfolio management, channels and analytics functions in a single wealth management platform. The bank will deploy WealthSuite in the cloud enabling the solution to scale in an agile manner according to the ongoing evolution of its business.
Nordea has joined the we.trade consortium as founding partner. The consortium is, in conjunction with IBM, developing a platform based on distributed ledger technology (DLT) that aims at making domestic and cross-border commerce easier, safer and more efficient for companies. It is the first such blockchain-based trade finance platform, marking a milestone in the practical adoption of DLT in the financial industry.
Purpose Software, the UK’s leading supplier of business management software to the managed services and print reseller industry, has announced the immediate availability of a new dashboard option for its CBS and 2serv service management solutions. This new capability will help resellers to improve individual, team and organisational performance whilst enhancing decision-making across the business.
