Next May the 3rd and 4th, the first Tech Tour & IVC Fintech Summit will bring to Paris a delegation of 100 international investors of the highest caliber, actively looking to invest in innovative Fintech companies. They will be joined by the key French stakeholders, both public and private: the French Treasury, national banking and insurance associations (FBF and FFSA), Paris Europlace and CroissancePlus and supported by Oakland Partners and its Global Partners Pictet & Cie and Orrick.

It’s just as well that divorce levels are at their lowest in 40 years as over half of people (52%) share passwords with their spouse or partner.  This is according to a poll of IT professionals by Centrify, the leader in securing enterprise identities against cyberthreats.

The same poll found that friends and children are trusted the least with more people prepared to hand a password over to a colleague (20 percent) or other family member (20 percent) than to friends (4 percent) or children (4 percent).

These days, almost every business is a digital business. The anytime, anywhere nature of the mobile workforce has changed how organisations share information, communicate and collaborate. Out of necessity as well as convenience, apps are being embraced as tools to create greater efficiencies and improve productivity.

Whitaker Securities is using Bloomberg's enterprise compliance platform, Bloomberg Vault, for social media monitoring and compliance, Bloomberg executives announced today.

Bloomberg Vault's communications, compliance and analytics empowers Whitaker to manage social media access across its organization, deepening visibility into the commercial use of social channels and meeting regulatory communications, surveillance, and archiving requirements.

Altyn-i goes live in Kazakhstan. A subsidiary of the Halyk Bank, one of Kazakhstan’s largest financial organizations, Altyn Bank’s digital platform Altyn-i goes live with its online and mobile banking offering, powered by Backbase.

DocsCorp announced today that 

Safe Systems announced availability of its Enhanced Cybersecurity Assessment Tool (ECAT) for financial institutions.

Interactive Data, a leading provider of fixed-income evaluated pricing, and subsidiary of Intercontinental Exchange announced  that its Liquidity Indicators Service is now available for European and Asia-Pacific corporate and sovereign securities. This represents an expansion of its North American services, and leverages the same fixed-income evaluated pricing and reference data content that supports pricing and trading functions at the world’s leading financial institutions and asset managers.