Warsaw, Poland, February 19, 2019. For the second year in a row, IKO, the mobile app of the CEE financial industry giant PKO Bank Polski, took top spot in a global industry ranking of mobile apps of 100 worldwide banks.

The rapid pace of digital transformation has left many industries scrambling to find secure, convenient ways of establishing identity for digital services.The identity ecosystem has become fragmented and complex, with too many stop-gap solutions creating and propagating vulnerabilities and friction. 

LUXEMBOURG-domiciled and CSSF registered AIFM Block Asset Management has created its first blockchain multi-strategy certificate, just one year on from the launch of its successful blockchain/cryptocurrency fund of funds.

The open-ended tracker certificate is listed on the Vienna Stock Exchange (Wiener Borse) and will track the performance of Block Asset Management’s blockchain and crypto fund, which invests in a carefully selected portfolio of blockchain and cryptocurrency investment funds.

With the help of full-service payment provider Concardis, Galeries Lafayette Berlin is simplifying its payment processes: for orders placed either by telephone or in writing, customers now receive an email with an integrated payment link so that they can settle their invoices. The link leads to a payment form, as is familiar from online shopping. Customers simply enter their payment information there and confirm the purchase. After the successful transaction, both the merchant and the customer automatically receive payment confirmation.

Lexmark, a global imaging solutions leader, today announced the availability of Lexmark Cloud Services, a suite of cloud solutions designed to help businesses remove the IT burden of managing their printing infrastructure, and help partners save time and money by managing their customers’ devices remotely. The new offering has already received industry recognition, today named Outstanding Print Environment Management Solution by analysts at Keypoint Intelligence - Buyers Lab.

Specialist RegTech provider Shield Financial Compliance (Shield FC) announces the cloud-enablement of its compliance platform. The Shield Cloud provides financial institutions with a full and flexible regulatory compliance solution, out of the box. 

Governor Software Ltd, an innovative governance and oversight solution provider, today announced that it has partnered with CastleHill Managed Risk Solutions to provide enhanced RSA Archer integration to its client base.

The Avaloq Banking Suite is now available in Austria: The Austrian unit of LGT, the international private banking and asset management group owned by the Princely House of Liechtenstein, has gone live with the Avaloq Banking Suite. The roll-out complements similar activation projects for LGT with Avaloq in Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Singapore and Hong Kong. All of the group's core strategic markets now use the same banking system.

Financial IT speaks with Peter-Jan van de Venn, MD Business Development at Five Degrees about hot topics at FinovateEurope this year, Banking as a Service trend and a collaboration between banks and fintechs.

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