Rackspace^® (NYSE: RAX), the #1 managed cloud company, today announced that Zipline Labs, a mobile money movement platform, is leveraging Rackspace Managed Cloud and DevOps Automation Service to power its application and API. With continuous deployment and monitoring, Zipline achieves optimal uptime and performance so it can deliver a seamless, real-time messaging experience to users.

Dinube, Europe’s first payment network that enables consumers to replace credit/debit cards with their smartphones, announces the latest rollout by the $1BN European supermarket chain BonPreu. Dinube’s groundbreaking new payment network uses tokenization, Near Field Communication (NFC) technology and biometric fingerprint security to make card-based payments a thing of the past.

nexo, the association set up to develop and promote open standards for card payments, has announced the findings of a study that explores the benefits of harmonising card payment acceptance for Europe’s leading retailers.

At todays Innovation Finance event that was wonderfully attended and organised the topical issue of Cyber crime was presented. It amazed me that there are so many new vendors producing imaginative system solutions that cover cyber crime protection and prevention.

One thing that came over relentlessly during all the presentations was that anyone and everyone is open to cyber crime and the question is only when it will impact you not if.

There have been a lot of headlines over the past few years announcing that ‘Alternative Finance Is Storming The Barricades of Traditional Banking’. The revolutionaries in the alternative finance movement argue that they are going to sweep away the old order and offer customers a complete alternative – they will no longer need their old providers in this brave new world. Alternative finance will meet their needs on its own.

Misys FusionInvest is a fully integrated cross-asset solution for investment management that leverages straight-through-processing to handle the complete trading life cycle from portfolio management, to middle- and back-office operations, to risk management and compliance. It combines sell-side level financial and technological capabilities with the user-friendliness, modularity, connectivity and ease of implementation required by the buy-side. FusionInvest has been adopted by over 90 institutions worldwide, from start-up hedge funds to global asset management companies.

The IMSplus Investment Management platform (available on desktop, web and mobile) serves the BFSI industry with specialised solutions for each sector. IMSplus is built to offer flexibility and ease-of-use, fulfilling complex and evolving business requirements in the global Investment Management domain.IMSplus is an integrated, yet modular investment management platform that effectively supports the respective operations of any type of financial entity.

A new report from Telstra reveals the majority of United Kingdom (UK) consumers using mobile banking applications want their mobile devices to instantly recognise them via biometrics, such as fingerprint and voiceprint, instead of having to prove who they are with passwords and usernames.

Omni-channel banking is a hot topic, fuelled by the need to provide the best customer experience (CX) no matter what channel a consumer chooses, or how many times they chop and change between channels during a transaction. But is this utopia really possible?

I think the answer is yes, but it’s not going to be easy to accomplish.

'Faux amis', a well-known trap for French students, is the concept of words that appear similar, but actually have rather different meanings. A similar situation is emerging in data management. Over the last twelve months, a phrase better known in the enterprise tech world – MDM, or 'master data management' – has entered common parlance. But what does it really mean in this context?