Periscope Data today launched a new software platform that meets the unique needs of professional data teams, the fast-growing community of data analysts, data engineers, data scientists and chief data officers that are driving the future of business.

The bright lights of Las Vegas have gone out on Money20/20 for another year. As always, the event brought together the biggest names in payments and provided unprecedented insight into the future of financial services.

So, after four days of discussions and demonstrations, what were the three big trends from this year’s installment?

Artificial intelligence: Enabling hyper-personalization

As MiFID II’s Jan. 3 go-live date draws closer, investment firms are rushing to implement systems that monitor position limits on commodity derivatives, though the majority of the limits are still unknown.

AsiaKredit, a digital consumer lender focused on Southeast Asia, today announced the launch of pera247 in the Philippines, an innovative, data-driven consumer lending platform delivered through a mobile application. 

Four out of five companies globally (81 percent) have made investments in "digitalization"––investing in digital technologies to change business models and drive revenue—in the past three years, yet only one out of four (23 percent) have achieved topline growth as a result.

In other words, the digitalization efforts of three out of four companies have failed, according to the latest survey released today by Simon-Kucher & Partners, the world’s leading pricing strategy consultancy.

Grab, Southeast Asia’s leading on-demand transportation and mobile payments platform, today revealed its in-store and in-restaurant payments feature. 

Pyramid Analytics, a leading global provider of enterprise analytics software, introduces Pyramid 2018: the Analytics OS. As a server-based, multi-user Analytics OS, Pyramid 2018 allows data leaders to create a universal analytics environment that fulfils the promise of a true, enterprise-wide data strategy. It supports the entire self-service analytics workflow so more users can use data to make better decisions.

An interview with David Cocks, CEO and founder of CloudTrade.

The Idea Behind CloudTrade

We established CloudTrade to address one of the main challenges in the e-invoicing and e-trading market: how to move the maximum number of trading partners onto electronic document delivery in the shortest possible time frame, without disrupting the supply chain.

Percona, the company that delivers enterprise-class MySQL®, MongoDB® and other open source database solutions and services, announced the success of Percona Live Open Source Database Conference Europe 2017, which took place September 25-27, 2017 at the Radisson Blu Royal Hotel in Dublin, Ireland.

Evli Fund Management company has renewed the name and strategy of its Alfa bond fund to Evli Nordic Corporate Bond. The fund focuses on Nordic rated investment grade and high yield bonds and unrated corporate bonds.