Last night, leading payments provider Klarna held its first “Smoooth Sessions” event of the year, with a panel of retail experts coming together to consider the future of retail. 

Financial IT an exclusive interview with Neville Roberts, CEO of Fintech organisation Planixs. 

Financial IT: Could you please tell us briefly about your background and career path that brought you to launching Planxis?

New NLG Platform offers large financial and pharmaceutical firms a radically new approach to fast-track complex report automation and deliver significant ROI

Yseop, the world-leading AI software company and pioneer in Natural Language Generation (NLG), today announced the launch of Augmented Analyst, a new enterprise-wide NLG automated report generation platform. Augmented Analyst is designed to help financial and pharmaceutical companies accelerate their digital transformation.

genesis, the international capital markets software firm, has partnered with XP Investments to design, build and implement products to automate workflows, which will in turn support business growth.

XP Investments provides an array of equities, fixed income and derivatives products and services to both institutions and individuals. Previously relying on manual, complex and time-consuming processes (for example, legacy databases, Excel, voice, instant messenger and email communications), the firm was looking for a smarter, digital approach. 

Path Solutions, the global Islamic banking software provider, today announced that Bank Assafa has gone live with the latest version of iMAL in its headquarters in Casablanca as part of its strategy to bring cutting-edge Islamic banking services to its new customer base.

One: Transparency to Drive Critical Changes

Transparency might be seen as an industry reaction to the global financial crisis. But, whether borne out of regulation, competition or client demand, it will drive the most critical changes in investment management this year. It has, in fact, become a vital issue for our industry and will be for the next decade.

The TALL Group of Companies, the UK’s leading provider of secure electronic and paper payments solutions is working with a growing number of high street banks that have all signed up as early adopters of UCN Plus^®, in a move designed to strengthen the industry’s protection against cheque fraud within the UK payments systems.

 Finastra today announced that it has extended medical insurance benefits to partners of its LGBTQ employees in India, as part of its drive to create a diverse and inclusive workplace. Same-sex couples who live together are now eligible for the same medical benefits as co-habiting couples from different genders.