Financial blockchain company Finom AG today announced it has become the first company in the world to increase its stock capital by such an unprecedented level of Ether (ETH) at 7,760 - the second most popular cryptocurrency. Finom's capital stock now comprises 2.5 million Swiss Francs (CHF).

Assetz Capital has launched Series 2 of its Great British Business Account (GBBA), offering investors a capped target gross interest rate of 6.25% per annum.

GBBA Series 2 automatically invests in business loans that have realisable asset security. Although the account has a similar investment mandate to Series 1, Series 2 is more tailored to current market conditions to capture a wider range of higher-quality loans than its predecessor. Over £4.5 million of investment capacity is available today within the account.

This 2nd Edition GFMI conference will help insurers and pension providers to develop competitive asset management strategies to enhance the profitability of their investment portfolios. Join industry experts from MetLife, Prudential, Transamerica, AXIS Capital, Global Atlantic Financial Group, and many others and take away practicable asset-liability management (ALM) techniques to help optimize your assets within the investment portfolio. 

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ACI Worldwide, a leading global provider of real-time electronic payment and banking solutions, today announced that HyperPay, a leading payment service provider (PSP) in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) r

Francisco Fernandez had onboarded Juerg Hunziker as the Deputy Group CEO and Group CMO in 2016. After two years of successful collaboration he has appointed Juerg Hunziker as Avaloq’s new Group CEO, effective 1 January 2018. Francisco Fernandez will concentrate on his role as the Group Chairman and focus on innovation, strategy and acquisitions. Avaloq is further strengthening its corporate governance to facilitate growth and has a well attuned leadership team to prepare the company for a potential IPO in the coming years.

As EMVCo addresses the rapid growth of remote payments globally through its payment tokenisation, 3-D Secure, secure remote commerce, and mobile and security initiatives, industry stakeholders have responded by joining its Associates Programme. EMVCo today announces that eight new organisations have joined the programme in the past twelve months to play an active role in the strategic and technical direction of the EMV® Specifications.

Data quality, consistency, reconciliation and lineage is now top of mind for both regulators and the financial services firms they oversee. That’s according to subject matter experts at Wolters Kluwer’s Finance, Risk & Reporting business who are predicting an increased focus on data structure and management for 2018. Whereas regulatory requirements were previously centered on firms submitting static reports at a specific time, in the correct format, there is now set to be an increased appetite for more detailed and granular data to gain deeper insight.

Data quality, consistency, reconciliation and lineage is now top of mind for both regulators and the financial services firms they oversee. That’s according to subject matter experts at Wolters Kluwer’s Finance, Risk & Reporting business who are predicting an increased focus on data structure and management for 2018. Whereas regulatory requirements were previously centered on firms submitting static reports at a specific time, in the correct format, there is now set to be an increased appetite for more detailed and granular data to gain deeper insight.

EPAM Systems, a leading global provider of digital platform engineering and software development services, and UBS AG, the world's largest wealth manager, have been awarded for Best Use of IT Private Banking/Wealth Management at the Banking Technology Awards held on December 13, 2017 in London.

Now in its 18th year, the Banking Technology Awards recognize excellence and innovation in the use of IT in financial services worldwide, and the people who make it happen.

Nothing says the holidays like… delivery trucks? As the primary e-Commerce shopping period comes to a close due to shipping deadlines, Mastercard SpendingPulse reports that online shopping will play a bigger role in what’s under the tree than ever before. A new report out today finds that in 2017 e-Commerce saw the largest share of holiday sales ever (tracking at more than 11 percent) and growth of 16.3 percent compared to last year.

The SpendingPulse e-Commerce report looks at all online holiday shopping since November 1 and covers retail sales across all payment types.