Today, Instantor, the fast-growing Swedish FinTech that makes tough calls easy within credit risk management, releases the eBook The Rise of Onboarding Abandonment Rates. How to Adapt to Shifting Consumer Demands and Reduce Application Abandonment Rates for Your Business.

Every day, the number of digital currencies is growing - the market is booming. Nevertheless, cryptocurrencies have not yet arrived in the mindset of the general public. One more reason to offer an user-friendly payment platform for digital currencies for everyone. The blockchain technology-based web wallet Payger provides an easy, fast and easy way to integrate digital currencies like Bitcoin or Dash into everyday life.

HCL Technologies (HCL), a leading technology company has announced an expansion of its strategic relationship with Barclays. In addition to HCL being named as Barclays’ preferred partner for IT infrastructure services, the two companies will commit to building the partnership globally, with particular opportunities regarding digital workplace services.

Here William Newcomer, VP Strategy and Business Development, North America, for Wolters Kluwer’s Finance, Risk and Reporting business, advises how banks could best prepare themselves (and their financial IT) for the upcoming Current Expected Credit Loss standard.

B-Hive adds another tech powerhouse to its partner list as they sign an associate partnership with Sentia, one of the leading companies for Managed Cloud-Services in North-Western Europe. Their partnership was announced at B-Hive’s FIN AND TONIC on Thursday.

Pelican, a global provider of AI-powered payments and financial crime compliance systems for banks and corporates, has launched a breakthrough sanctions self-learning module capable of delivering significant reductions in false positive rates (FPRs). Pelican Sanctions Self-Learning can be deployed as part of the Pelican watchlist filter, or can operate with any existing third-party sanctions screening application.

On December 6, Manila will welcome the second Blockchain & Bitcoin Conference Philippines by Smile-Expo – the large event focused on DLT and crypto coins. The last year’s meeting has gathered 300 guests, 12 companies in the demozone and top speakers from top world companies.

Who will speak at the conference?

Fintech leader Avaloq and crypto-asset custody infrastructure specialist METACO* have entered into an innovation partnership with Gazprombank (Switzerland) Ltd, a Swiss bank, to implement their integrated crypto asset solution. The aim of this product innovation is to provide banks and wealth managers with a fully integrated solution for the management of client portfolios across all asset classes including cryptocurrencies. Gazprombank (Switzerland) Ltd, which is already an Avaloq client, aims to offer a cryptocurrency service to its clients in mid-2019.

Gemalto (Euronext NL0000400653 GTO) announces a joint pilot with a leading airline to bring additional convenience and security to the traveler's experience via biometric boarding in Terminal 4 at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX).