Nominations are open for the AbilityNet Tech4Good Awards 2016 - an annual showcase for the amazing people who use digital technology to make the world a better place. Entry is free and open to any business, charity, individual or public body with a base in the UK. Winners will be announced at a glittering ceremony hosted by BT in July.

Gerard Chick, will deliver the End Note presentation at the Corporate Financial Supply Chain Innovations Event in Greater Copenhagen April 26-27, 2016.

Gerard Chick is an award winning author, speaker, advisor, content developer and thought leader in Procurement & Supply Management.

A recent survey released by SimCorp, a leading provider of investment management solutions and services for the global financial services industry, has revealed that portfolio managers are facing significant challenges when it comes to data accuracy and risk and performance analytics in the front office.

pH Miners Inc. has officially launched its two new cybercurrency miners for Bitcoin and Litecoin, and is offering a special deal for customers who purchase now.

Estimize, the open financial estimates platform which facilitates the aggregation of fundamental estimates continues to partner with industry leading market platforms  offering data to a broad group of users across the sell-side and buy-side. Estimize earnings estimates data are now available within the OTAS Portfolio Analytics App suite. OTAS clients will also have the ability to contribute their own estimates, adding significant data points that will enhance and deepen coverage of the Estimize data set over the long term.

It doesn’t seem that long ago that I would head down to ‘Blockbuster Video’ on a rainy Sunday afternoon (having put a roast in the oven) and choose a video to watch, and maybe some popcorn.

Things have changed bit since then, for a start I would have to fight the kids for the TV, and if successful I certainly wouldn’t need to leave the house - I could find just about anything using Netflix or Apple TV. The trip to Blockbuster seems a distant memory now, and the same can be said for visits to my bank branch.

The growing importance of operational risk for banks is promoting a step change in the way it is managed. Long gone is the siloed backward looking approach and instead banks are moving towards a culture in which operational risk is managed in a proactive and strategic way on an organization wide basis.

NICE Actimize, a NICE Systems (NASDAQ:NICE) business and the largest and broadest provider of financial crime, risk and compliance software for the financial services industry, announces the launch of its next-generation Actimize Cross-Asset Cloud Markets Surveillance solution, featuring Foreign Exchange (FX) and Case Management capabilities. The solution targets foreign exchange, equities, fixed income, futures and options asset classes in a single hybrid cloud environment, and meets the unique compliance needs and regulatory requirements of both buy-side and sell-side firms.

 As Atom Bank sets out to re-invent retail banking, it will introduce machine learning technology from WDS, A Xerox Company, to deliver a near human customer care experience via its mobile banking app.

Award-winning payment specialist ONPEX implements OVH Dedicated Cloud service for their White-label Payment Platform.

The new solution, provided by the European market leader OVH to ONPEX since late last year, is PCI-DSS compliant and meets the highest safety requirements (such as ISO 27001, SOC, etc.). This enables ONPEX to operate their Platform as a Service (PaaS) as a cloud-based solution, located in secure European data centers. In addition, ONPEX was convinced by the proposed service level agreement as well as the usability of the solution.