The ai Corporation (ai), an FCA approved expert in payments, fraud and risk management, and Quatrro Processing, a leading international payment processor, today announced the launch of QPS, a next generation, artificial intelligence powered payments processing solution.

We are delighted to announce that RSRCHXchange won the award for ‘Best Investment Research Platform’ at the annual Financial News Trading and Technology Awards held in London on 15 May, 2018.

Open Banking is here. The Second Payment Services Directive (PSD2) now requires banks to give any third party access to use payments data and launch transactions from a customer’s bank account, subject to permission. It’s a radical idea; and while there will undoubtedly be impacts, the exact nature and timeframes of the disruption are still becoming clear.

Getting the measure

Although the range of possibilities and changes around Open Banking may sometimes seem confusing, essentially, they fall into five key categories.

smartTrade Technologies, a multi-asset electronic trading solutions pioneer, announces today the addition of Cryptocurrencies to its award-winning FX Trading Platform, LiquidityFX (LFX).

The Cryptocurrency market is growing fast, and a large percentage of the current trading volumes is concentrated on the top ten cryptocurrencies, which accounts for about 70% of daily turnover. It is also highly decentralized and finding the best price is, at best, opaque and challenging when trading. 

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.