As with every industry in every country, the world of banking has been disrupted to its core in recent months. Consumers have been unable – and in some cases, unwilling – to complete banking processes in person, and the reality is that some customers will need to bank remotely for the foreseeable future. Whilst financial institutions work hard to protect their customers, their staff and their businesses, they are now also required to tackle a new type of customer journey - the ‘socially distanced’ customer journey.

Edoardo Baumgartner has been named as the new Country Manager Germany of SIA, reporting directly to Cristina Astore, Northwest Europe and DACH Region Sales Director.

He has responsibility for strengthening the development of SIA’s positioning in the German market where the company is present since January 2017 through the subsidiary P4cards based in Munich and Nuremberg with about 50 employees.

Reuters Events will be hosting a free online webinar series focused on commodity trading and commodity value chains.

Commodity traders are under pressure to undergo massive transformation. Unprecedented volatility, changing consumer and governmental demands, digital transformation and an intense geopolitical landscape are impacting every commodity stakeholder.

Hoxton Ventures announced the final close today of Hoxton Ventures II L.P., an early stage European venture capital fund building on the firm’s record of finding and investing in “unicorns,” which includes seed investments in Babylon Health, Darktrace and Deliveroo.

SteelEye, the compliance technology and data analytics firm, today published “Data-Driven Financial Services Compliance – Understanding the Opportunity”, a white paper which explores the key challenges faced by compliance teams within financial markets as they navigate regulatory change. 

Path Solutions, a global banking software provider, was announced by IBS Intelligence as the leader in the Islamic financial services sector in IBS Islamic Sales League Table (SLT) 2020. 

For the eighth year in a row, Path Solutions was recognized the undisputed leader in Islamic Banking with more new Islamic deals signed in 2019 than any of its industry peers. The company is part of the iconic IBSI Leadership Club 2020 for back office systems, topping the Islamic Banking category since 2017.

Avaloq has been named Outstanding Wealth Management Technology Implementation – Back Office partner at the Global Private Banking Innovation Awards 2020. The award is the seventh accolade or industry citation to be won by Avaloq in 2020; most recently, it won the Best Outsourcing Solution and Best Transaction Processing awards at the WealthBriefing Asia Awards 2020.

Thought Machine, the cloud native core banking technology firm, today announced it has teamed up with RegTech leader TruNarrative to provide Atom bank groundbreaking financial crime prevention and core banking capabilities. This partnership has enabled Atom to use the TruNarrative platform to conduct a full suite of real-time AML transactional monitoring processes built on top of truly cloud native technology.

Surecomp, the market leader in global trade finance and treasury solutions for banks and corporations, today announced the launch of its new front-office solution Fastrade™, designed specifically for small-to-medium sized enterprises (SMEs). Fastrade™ allows banks to extend trade finance capabilities to their SME corporate clients, while SMEs can now also gain direct access to and benefit from fully digitized trade finance services.