Xero (ASX: XRO) has acquired Hubdoc, a leading data capture solution that helps accountants, bookkeepers, and small businesses streamline administrative tasks such as financial document collection and data entry.

Advanced Logic Analytics Ltd (ALA), a data science-led business offering AI-driven algorithms and app solutions to the global fund markets, is pleased to announce the launch of ALASA, a market sentiment tool that helps banks, investment and trading firms make sense of human and market signals from financial data published online.

Path Solutions, the world’s most trusted software provider for the Islamic financial services industry today announced that its Group Chairman & Chief Executive Officer Mohammed Kateeb has been selected as winner of Finance Monthly CEO Award for 2018. This accolade recognises Kateeb’s forward-thinking, innovative and strategic vision that has resulted in the thriving success of Path Solutions.

Exscudo is happy to announce a release of an open API for trading terminals that will allow utilizing trading robots on the Exscudo exchange. 

Today, we’re thrilled to announce 42nd President of the United States Bill Clinton as the keynote speaker for Swell – where the world’s leaders in policy, payments and technology connect.

The use of biometric identifications systems in the financial sector is mushrooming as banks, credit card companies, and other institutions adopt them to improve security. Whilst regulations, like the EU’s Payment Services Directive (PSD2) and new ones from The New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS), are spurring this by requiring multi-factor authentication (MFA).

Datacenter.com, a channel-focused provider of on-demand colocation services with a ‘high-profile’ brand name and a planned roll-out of colocation data centers in strategic markets worldwide, has added AFIBER to its connectivity portfolio in Datacenter.com Amsterdam AMS1. To accomplish this, AFIBER has deployed a network Point of Presence (PoP) in the Datacenter.com Amsterdam AMS1 data center.

A new agreement between PwC and RiskFirst will see PwC continue to provide consulting and advisory services using the award winning Skyval platform – underpinned by RiskFirst’s PFaroe – whilst also promoting further standardisation and bringing greater freedom to stakeholders to share information.

This is the first step in a digitalization strategy which will enable 37 million PagoBANCOMAT cardholders to use innovative payment services.

Thanks to the agreement with SIA for use of its digital payment service Jiffy, BANCOMAT S.p.A. now enters the market of money transfers between individuals, e-commerce and payments via smartphone.

 Agorai, an integrated marketplace for Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools and the data assets that fuel them, today announced that DeepVideo, is joining the Agorai AI marketplace.