President of PaySimple, David Sharp, speaks with Financial IT about PaySimple's key moments, future plans, challenges and trends of the industry. 

Financial IT: What are some key moments about PaySimple and its mission?

Avaloq, the leading global provider of software as a service (SaaS) and business process as a service (BPaaS) solutions to banks and wealth managers, has been recognised as an industry Leader by Gartner in its June 2018 Magic Quadrant for Global Retail Core Banking report. 

Path Solutions is pleased to announce that Mohammed Kateeb, the company’s Group Chairman & CEO received the highly coveted recognition for ‘Gamechanger of the Year (Islamic Financial Technology)’, while the company was awarded ‘Core Banking System Provider of the Year (Islamic Finance) – International’ for the 5th time, and its ground-breaking technology solution for financial inclusion iSHRAQ*Microfinance named ‘Sharia-Compliant Microfinance Solution of the Year - Internatio

CoinField, the most advanced cryptocurrency exchange in Canada is now extending its services worldwide thanks to a new partnership with Malta's Manticore Ventures to create moonGO(TM), a powerful app designed for traders who thrive on agility, flexibility and security.

AI is all around us these days, and its presence is only going to grow stronger. Affiliate marketing is a field that can benefit from this trend particularly well, and exploring what AI can do for you – as well as learning a few lessons from it along the way – should be one of your top priorities as an affiliate marketer.

1) Treat Your Campaigns as Generations

Thierry Breton, Chairman and CEO said: “During the first half of the year we confirmed a strong commercial dynamic consolidating our strategy to accompany our customers all along their digital transformation. By leveraging the strengths of all our Divisions in our Digital Transformation Factory, we signed very large transformation contracts translating in a strong book to bill ratio in each Division and 117% for the Group. The commercial activity was particularly high in North America in Q2 with a book to bill ratio at 190%.

Financial firms intend to rapidly increase their investment in public cloud to exploit the benefits of the cloud in managing the financial data that powers their business decisions, according to a new global survey of senior technologists and market data managers in the financial services sector. In the survey from the Financial & Risk business of Thomson Reuters, respondents said their firms would be increasing investment in public cloud by over a half, from 30% of IT budgets in 2017 to 47% in 2019.

CFH Clearing (‘CFH’), TradeTech Group’s multi award-winning liquidity provider, today announces that it has integrated PrimeXM’s XCore technology in London (LD4) and Tokyo (TY3). This development gives CFH the market-leading ability to provide local liquidity to brokers and clients in both data centres. 

Finastra today announced that Gareth Burton has joined the company as Chief Information Officer (CIO) with responsibility for leading Finastra’s Global Information Services team. He will oversee the company’s enterprise core infrastructure and employee services, as well as supporting all business and financial applications.