Topsec Cloud Solutions, a leading provider of cloud-based managed email security solutions, has appointed VCW Security as sole UK distribution partner.  Specialising in the distribution and marketing of IT security solutions and services to end-user companies via the reseller channel, VCW is now looking to expand the market for Topsec’s range of cloud based solutions including anti-spam, anti-virus, email continuity, email content filtering, image analysis, email archiving, secure file sharing, phishing awareness training-as-a-service and domain management. 

Organisations struggling to improve cyber security defences, should take note of the recommendations proposed by a select committee report into last year’s WannaCry ransomware epidemic. This is according to Peter Groucutt, managing director of Databarracks.    

Nomura Research Institute (NRI), a leading provider of consulting services and system solutions, were recognized during the 2018 FTF News Technology Innovation Awards, being awarded “Best Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) Initiative.” 

MTS, Russia’s leading telecommunications operator, Sberbank CIB, Sberbank’s corporate investment business, and National Settlement Depository (NSD), Russia’s central securities depository, for the first time in Russia have placed commercial bonds denominated in rubles and based on blockchain with the full life cycle of a security in the form of a set of smart contracts – from placement to the full performance of the issuer’s obligations to investors.

 GoldenSource, the leading independent provider of Enterprise Data Management (EDM) and Master Data Management (MDM) solutions for the risk and banking industry, announced today that Munich based RSU Rating Service Unit GmbH & Co. KG has chosen its Market Data Solution.

Today Fidor Group has been recognised for its innovative products and digital offerings by Juniper Research. It has named Fidor as a leading disruptor in its prestigious “Disruptors & Challengers Quadrant For Neo & Challenger Banks” for 2018.

Deltek, the leading global provider of enterprise software and information solutions for project-based businesses, continues to strengthen its presence in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region by welcoming NAGA Architects to its client base.

In the three years since blockchain technology was the private preserve of fintech geeks, it has grown from being the possible basis of smart contracts for financial services settlements to be the cure-all for the world’s IT woes. 

Blockchain conference, BlockShow Europe 2018, is set to use the first blockchain-based application for polling at their Berlin conference in May. Taking place on May 28-29, the polls will identify the distinguished women leaders and game-changing companies who are building the tools and services that will continue to propel blockchain forward.  

- By 2020 AI could replace the current World Poker Champion.

- Studies estimate machines will write a top 40 pop song, run all telephone banking and build any Lego set within a decade.

- By the century’s halfway point, AI will have written a New York Times Bestseller.

- The research is revealed shortly after Google Duplex’s big unveiling.