Refinitiv, one of the world’s largest providers of financial markets data and infrastructure, has invested in and entered a strategic partnership agreement with ModuleQ, a Microsoft partner for Office 365 and Microsoft Teams. ModuleQ’s intelligent app predicts users’ current priorities while working in Microsoft Teams to bring them timely and relevant content, news and analytics.

Creatio, a global software company providing a leading low-code platform for process management and CRM, is announcing a new initiative aimed at helping businesses fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. Healthcare, charity, volunteering, governmental and similar organizations that are communicating and working to stop the spread and/or mitigate the consequences of the infection can use Service Creatio, customer center edition at no cost for six months.

Digital core Banking is a trending term at the moment in the entire financial arena. However, most people are not totally aware of the term or the way it differs from the traditional core banking system.

Billingo, the second-largest online invoicer in Hungary joined hands with Salt Edge, a leader in developing open banking solutions, to become the very first online biller in the country to offer a range of opportunities fuelled by bank data aggregation, without having their own PSD2 licence.

Open banking started its journey in Hungary in September 2019 when PSD2 was transposed into national law. A high level of technological development in the country allows discovering ways to help businesses digitalize based on open banking possibilities. 

The Africa Digital Insurance Conference 2020 (ADIC 2020) promises to be the continent’s insurance disruption tech event. This year the conference, which takes place between 24-25 June 2020 at the Villa Rosa Kempinski in Nairobi, focuses on innovation, showcasing technological and design solutions for the challenges and opportunities faced by insurance companies as they keep up with the digital era.

Why are so many companies still not working efficiently remotely? First of all, they did not establish uniform tools and procedures for all teams. Secondly, they conduct many hours of inefficient video conferences and individual conversations. Thirdly, they continue their email communication. So, how to strengthen the workflow and internal and external communication? Here are some of the tips we used in Neontri and they worked great!

Ant Financial today launched the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) version of its technology product OceanBase, a financial-grade distributed relational database that has been a key computing infrastructure for Alipay since 2010.

OceanBase is highly stable, scalable, reliable and budget-friendly compared to other traditional database solutions. In October 2019, OceanBase was ranked number one in terms of performance by the Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC), a global non-profit that defines transaction processing and database benchmarks.

GoCompare is urging people to stay safe online as official statistics show a dramatic increase in phishing and online shopping scams, with cybercriminals looking to capitalise on coronavirus fears.    

According to Action Fraud’s figures for March 2020, coronavirus-related fraud reports have increased by 400%, with victims’ losses totally nearly £1million. 

CaixaBank, headed by Chairman Jordi Gual and Chief Executive Officer Gonzalo Gortázar, continues to help its customers and, as of April this year, will offer rental payment holiday to the eligible tenants of the homes owned by its subsidiary BuildingCenter. This measure will be in force until such time when the government declares the end of the state of alert, including any extension.