Onguard, the FinTech company that offers a platform which streamlines the entire order-to-cash process, has announced the appointment of Colin Sanders as senior business executive as it continues to invest in its UK growth strategy. 

Colin’s appointment comes after a successful year at Onguard which saw record sales which has continued into 2019. Thanks to this continued success, investing back into the company is high on Onguard’s agenda for 2019.

Banks are struggling with complexity and how to manage competing priorities.

The growth of mobile and now IoT payments means that banks need a back-end infrastructure that can flex to accommodate new and diversifying payment-enabled form factors, including mobile devices, wearables, smart fridges and soon, connected cars.

Institutional cryptocurrency connectivity provider, Market Synergy has launched a cloud-based VPS (Virtual Private Server) to connect brokers, hedge funds and professional traders to Bitfinex, the world’s leading cryptocurrency trading platform.

Today Ortec Finance, a market-leading provider of technology and solutions  for risk and return management, in partnership with Cambridge Econometrics, launches the first-ever Systemic Climate Risk Scenario Solution. The newly developed systemic climate-risk aware economic and financial outlooks show that a rapid shift to a low-carbon, climate-resilient economy is likely to generate more attractive returns for investors in the short term compared to a business-as-usual scenario.

encompass corporation, a fast-growing provider of intelligently automated Know Your Customer (KYC) solutions, today 12 March announces a partnership with IHS Markit, a world leader in critical information, analytics and solutions.

Much talk in financial services over the past several years has focused on who will win the battle between the banks and the fintechs?  The fintechs promised to simply do things better by removing the red tape that has long surrounded financial services – everything from making it easier and quicker to get loans (even when credit was subpar); to extending services (like cashless transactions) to reaching underserved population segments around the world; to enabling businesses to raise money through crowdfund platforms and ICOs.

Facebook, Twitter, and other social media platforms play a big role in shaping popular opinion. But they’ve opened a Pandora’s box of potential disinformation and manipulation of the public. After investigating 24 million tweets related to Brexit, cyber security provider F-Secure has identified efforts to amplify pro-leave Brexit views by far-right Twitter users based outside of the United Kingdom.

For the third consecutive year, the Financial Times has named European payment services provider Trustly on its annual FT 1000 list. With a compounded annual growth rate in revenue of 362 percent between 2014 and 2017, Trustly ranks as the 482nd fastest growing company in Europe. Trustly ranks 12th among the fintech companies, and 7th among the Swedish companies.

Gemalto, the world leader in digital security, today announced that Identify3D, the most advanced security solution for digital manufacturing supply chains, has deployed Gemalto's SafeNet Data Protection On Demand to ensure the security of its customers' intellectual property and quality of their digital manufacturing services in the cloud.

Exactpro, a leading provider of quality assurance (QA) services for market infrastructures, is pleased to announce that a team of its QA consultants has completed a review of testing processes for the NextGen Post Trade Programme that is underway at Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX) and delivered a set of test strategy recommendations for Phase 1 of the programme.