Kimberley Williams has joined eVestment as international product strategy manager in eVestment’s London office. In this new position, she will lead eVestment solutions and product development as the company continues to grow its user base in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia.

 Gresham, the leading software and services company that specialises in providing real-time transaction control and enterprise data integrity software, has been named by Chartis’ leading team of analysts and experts as the winner of the RiskTech 100® category for Data Integrity and Control.

The newly created category highlights the importance of high-quality data, against a backdrop of reduced profit margins, regulatory pressure and the explosion of increasingly complex, real-time data.

Algomi, the network company providing information-matching solutions for the optimisation of fixed income liquidity, today announced Rony Grushka joined its board with immediate effect.

Rony was a co-founder of Markit Group and played a major role in building it into one of the world’s most highly respected financial information companies. Over thirteen years, his roles included the Global Head of Corporate Strategy, CFO, membership of the Executive Management Committee and Secretary to the Board of Directors. He led and managed the IPO of the company on the NASDAQ.

 GFT, the global provider of advisory, business consulting, IT and software services to the financial sector, has announced a collaboration with Lombard Risk, the leading vendor of enterprise collateral management solutions.

Leading cyber security software specialist ZoneFox today launches a new machine learning based solution that monitors business critical data flow and user behaviour to spot abnormal usage patterns and combat insider threats called ZoneFox Augmented Intelligence (AI).

Spire Payments, a leader in payment technology and solutions, will be launching its SPx1, a next generation SmartPOS device, and its ‘Converge’ payment software framework at TRUSTECH 2016 in Cannes, France. 

The SPx1 SmartPOS is a milestone in the evolution of payment devices. Seamlessly running multiple applications, this EMV and PCI approved Android device offers an enriched consumer/merchant interaction point akin to a tablet or smart mobile device thanks to its 5.5 inch fully tactile touch screen and its real-time application download capability.

BioCatch, the global leader in behavioural biometrics announced today the successful trial of its technology at NatWest. NatWest is one of the largest banks in the UK and serves over 14 million customers. The BioCatch technology has been deployed at the Bank since the start of 2016 within Coutts and with some business customers and continues to successfully prevent online fraud attempts, helping to protect customers. The next step of the plan is to pilot the technology with NatWest personal banking customers later in 2017.

At a celebratory luncheon today for Treasury Today Asia magazine’s 2016 Adam Smith Awards Asia, Prudential Corporation Asia was highly commended for Best SWIFT Solution, using the bank connectivity service of Reval, a cloud-based platform for treasury and risk management. Prudential Asia’s Hong Kong-based treasury team leveraged the straight-through processing within Reval to connect to Fides, a third-party SWIFT service bureau.

With Black Friday fast approaching and marking the start of the busiest shopping period of the year, new research from Barclaycard has revealed that frustrated consumers are turning their backs on the high street. As a result, retailers are facing growing pressure to improve their in-store experience, or risk losing out on sales.