SBDA Group signs agreement with lead investor FinSight Ventures and Digital Space Ventures to close the Series A venture investment round. The funding will be used to advance the existing SBDA recommendation-based technology for any bank in addressing their needs.

On February 8, 2018, Smile-Expo will hold Blockchain & Bitcoin Conference in Gibraltar. It is a conference dedicated to cryptocurrencies, blockchain solutions and ICOs.    

Organizers are inviting businesspeople, investors, developers as well as advisors and coaches engaged in the digital currency and blockchain sector. The conference will bring together about 300 participants. To make it as useful as possible for everyone, presentations will be divided into several sections. 

With 2017 almost behind us, it is the ideal time to look back on another prosperous year for electronic payments, and to consider how last year’s developments will impact on 2018.

This GFMI conference will assess best practices for creating and integration robo-advisors. Learn the practical uses of artificial intelligence and machine learning in wealth management from investment strategies to data analytics and asset allocation. Most importantly, this conference will provide answers to practical issues of whether it is best to build or buy robo-advisors and what the future holds for the wealth management industry.

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Judopay, the m-commerce payments platform today announced a partnership with Visa to utilise the CyberSource payment management solution to offer consumers a more seamless digital payment experience, and greater choice in how they pay in mobile—via payment cards, card-on-file, wallets and at the point-of-sale.

After a series of high-profile attacks against its members in 2016, the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) established a Customer Security Controls Framework that includes a set of 16 mandatory controls. SWIFT requires self-attestations to be completed by the end of 2017. These will be made available to SWIFT counterparties in support of the transparent exchange of security status information.

iwoca, Europe’s most innovative small business lender, has been announced a winner of the Open Up Challenge by innovation foundation, Nesta’s Challenge Prize Centre. iwoca is among ten companies that will each receive an award of £100,000 to develop innovative finance solutions based on Open Banking. 

iwoca was chosen as an Open Up Challenge winner, from an initial 150 applicants, by an independent panel of judges for developing products assessed as most likely to have a positive impact on UK small businesses in 2018 and beyond.

Temenos, the software specialist for banking and finance, today announces that the Philippine Resources Savings Banking Corporation (PR Savings Bank), the fifth largest independent thrift bank in the Philippines, has signed for Temenos T24 Core Banking and Analytics. PR Savings Bank is expanding its business lines from loans into deposits. The bank chose Temenos as the platform to support its growth and enable it to quickly bring new and personalized products and services to market, driven by data.

Percona, the company that delivers enterprise-class MySQL®, MongoDB® and other open source database solutions and services, announced collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to serve as an AWS Standard Tier Consulting Partner and Amazon Aurora Service Delivery Partner in the AWS Partner Network (APN).

Mobey Forum has today published a new report exploring the available methods to effectively enable both robust risk management and a frictionless customer journey within the m-commerce environment. Entitled ‘Authentication in M-commerce: Balancing Risk and Experience’, the report also provides an industry view on the criteria for applying strong customer authentication (SCA), and analyses potential challenges posed by legislation such as PSD2.