Segment, the customer data platform, today announced the availability of new product features that will help brands achieve compliance with the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which takes effect May 25, 2018. Using either a simple user interface or an API, Segment customers will be able to manage user deletion and suppression requests, as well as automatically forward them to supported Segment integrations such as Amplitude, Braze (formerly Appboy), Intercom and Iterable.

Avaloq’s Business Process as a Service (BPaaS) solution has been selected by Intesa Sanpaolo Private Banking Suisse to fast-track the integration of legacy systems and new client assets and position the bank for growth. Using Avaloq’s innovative ready-for-business approach, the implementation significantly reduced costs and time-to-market for the bank.

Eagle Investment Systems LLC, a BNY Mellon company and leading provider of financial services technology, announced today that it is collaborating with Microsoft to create a new cloud-based data management platform. Offered through Microsoft Azure, Eagle will work to develop a multi-tenant solution, leveraging 25 years of experience providing data management solutions to global investment institutions, with $24 trillion in assets currently managed on Eagle.

Appian and KPMG LLP today announce an expansion of their strategic alliance.

Appian today announced a strategic technology alliance with Genesys, the global leader in omnichannel customer experience and contact center solutions.

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Nets, the digital payments specialist, has launched testing of finger vein payments in Denmark. Now, students and visitors at Copenhagen Business School (CBS) can leave their cash, cards and smartphones behind and buy lunch using just their finger.

 Saxo Payments Banking Circle, the global scale financial utility, has today launched a new white paper at the SWIFT Business Forum in London.

Facing the complexities of global regulations, Crèdit Andorrà Financial Group has selected NICE Actimize, a NICE (Nasdaq:NICE) business and the leader in Autonomous Financial Crime Management, to strengthen its anti-money laundering solutions strategy. Crèdit Andorrà Financial Group, the benchmark bank in Andorra, will integrate a suite of NICE Actimize anti-money laundering solutions into its financial crime operations in order to more effectively address the world’s anti-money laundering regulations.

Organisations should not dismiss social media as simply a tool for marketing. During a crisis, it can often act as the most effective means of communicating with customers, staff and suppliers. This is according to Peter Groucutt, managing director of business continuity and disaster recovery provider, Databarracks.