If long term certainty was ever guaranteed that time is over. Today’s leading businesses face a disruption that cannot be ignored if they are to exceed expectations and navigate through the fog of uncertainty. Proactive and insightful, the most effective finance organisations of the future will be capable of driving the business forward and holding them accountable to business results all at a fraction of the cost of today’s finance organisations.

Lexmark, a global imaging solutions leader, announced that Thomas Valjak will join the company as Vice President Channel, EMEA, effective today. With almost 25 years of experience inbusiness management, channel and end-user sales, Valjak will help accelerate the company’s channel growth across the region of EMEA. 

On 27-28 November the largest and most senior group of FinTech, Banking leaders and innovators in Europe will come together to build the future of Fintech at the 3rd edition of Monex Summit Europe in Warsaw, Poland.

Ideal Prediction, the independent trading analysis and data science company for capital markets, today announced the addition of Natural Language Processing (NLP) to its automated analytics services.

By incorporating NLP with machine learning, Ideal Prediction’s service empowers clients to create and visualize new analytical graphs in real-time with no coding knowledge.

AxiomSL, the leading provider of regulatory reporting and risk management solutions, announces today that Yapi Kredi Bank Nederland has selected AxiomSL’s strategic platform to comply with European Banking Authority (EBA) capital and liquidity regulations, in addition to De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB) specific financial and statistical reporting requirements. AxiomSL will enable Yapi Kredi to both reduce manual interactions in reporting and ensure that regulatory reports are submitted in a timely and efficient manner.

One of my favorite American historical personalities is Ben Franklin, born 1706 and died 1790.

In its first year in Canada, North America’s fastest-growing technology conference has officially announced it has now reached maximum capacity for this year’s Collision event, to be held in Toronto’s Enercare Centre from May 20 - 23.

The size of Collision’s now sold-out floor space is set to be seven times larger than Collison 2018, formerly held in New Orleans. The size of the space has also surpassed its flagship event, Web Summit. This year’s Collision is also bringing more than twice as many speakers, startups and investors compared to last year’s conference.

Today, Amazon Web Services Inc., an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced the general availability of Amazon Managed Blockchain, a fully managed service that makes it easy to create and manage scalable blockchain networks. Customers who want to allow multiple parties to execute transactions and maintain a cryptographically verifiable record of them without the need for a trusted, central authority can quickly setup a blockchain network spanning multiple AWS accounts with a few clicks in the AWS Management Console.

Bahrain’s Open Banking compliance deadline of 30^th June is rolling round quickly and its regulator, the Central Bank of Bahrain has already signalled that it has no plans to extend it.

Eagle clients can now source sanctions data directly from SIX for use within Eagle solutions. The alliance will help to streamline efforts by clients to source, validate, and align sanctions data with existing portfolio data, helping firms minimize the risk of reputational damage and fines that can result from dealing with sanctioned entities.