After announcing their Fintech Innovation Program collaboration in July, Oracle and B-Hive are taking their next step to jointly launch a fast-tracked monetization ecosystem program for mature startup and scale-up fintechs, called Fintech ScaleUp. Registration opens today and the program will kickstart in January when Oracle and B-Hive will select 15 startup or scale-up fintechs in two program sessions that will take place in Brussels and London.

Glaston has refined its strategy for 2018–2021 to better meet its customers’ needs. While the core of the strategy remains unchanged, some refinements and adjustments have been made. 

What has been refined in the strategy? 

Phil Siarri recently sat with Andrew Boyajian, Head of Banking, TransferWise North America who took part in a panel entitled: “The new business opportunities in the Canadian payment industry” at

The TALL Group of Companies, the UK leader in the provision of secure paper and electronic payment solutions, has been appointed as authorised sales partner by TCS iON, a strategic unit of Tata Consulting Services (TCS). This strategic partnership is to enhance the coverage of TCS iON Digital Records Platform across UK, Ireland and a nominated list of African regions.

When asked to rate the importance of technology trends for use by their mobile workforce, buyers rated Big Data (52%) the most important, closely followed by IoT (51%) and Sensor technologies (41%), including atmosphere, temperature and biological sensors. The main drivers for the technologies were improved business efficiency and productivity. 

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the premier post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, today announced that it has advanced to the testing phase of its ground-breaking project to re-platform its credit derivatives Trade Information Warehouse (TIW) on distributed ledger technology (DLT) and cloud. 

I know what Artificial Intelligence (A.I) is and I see Robotic Process Automation (RPA) in the press all the time, I hear you say, but can these new technologies really make a difference to my business’s management of our finance processes?

Let’s explore the technology first, then look at the challenges in finance and accounting that A.I and RPA go some way to meeting. 

The difference between A.I and RPA

Bonn. Gartner has positioned the SER Group as a Challenger in the newly published 2018 Magic Quadrant for Content Services Platforms (CSP)*. The SER Group, the only European ECM vendor among the Challengers, credits the positioning to its strong international market presence, clear vision and diverse product attributes.

Wolters Kluwer Compliance Solutions today named both Citizens National Bank of Meridian, Miss. and Boston-based Eastern Bank as winners of its 2018 Community Impact Award. The award honors financial institutions for the breadth of their positive impact to low- and moderate-income communities, and their innovative application of community development programs where they do business.