Mobile World Congress - Starting from March, TIM, the leading provider of mobile and fixed telecommunication services in Italy, in partnership with Cisco will offer "TIM Safe WEB", a highly secure platform service, integrated in the TIM network, able to safeguard small business users from malware, such as ramsomware, phishing, and other malicious cybersecurity activities.

Mobile network operators are facing strong pressures to evolve their businesses and operations for profitable growth and differentiation. Explosive demand for bandwidth persists, while ARPU pressures mount due to competition and limited service innovation. Addressing these challenges requires industry innovation focused on delivering new revenue-generating services based on a more flexible and agile service delivery environment, while reducing Capex and Opex.

Earlier today, Singapore-homegrown mobile payment company SpherePay announced its strategic partnership and investment from one of China's leading blockchain company Titanium (TV). Titanium Value (TV) has confirmed this investment into SpherePay cryptocurrency project SAY as part of its globalisation plan to penetrate the Southeast Asian market. The investment value was not disclosed.

INDATA, a leading industry provider of software, technology and services for buy-side firms, today announced that Wright Investors’ Service, Inc., an investment management and advisory firm based in Greenwich, CT with more than $1.3 Billion in AUM, has successfully implemented INDATA’s iPM Epic platform delivered via iPM Cloud. Wright is utilizing INDATA for OMS & front office, portfolio modeling, IBOR, compliance, portfolio accounting, performance, reporting and reconciliation, as well as INDATA’s SA Outsourcing Services.

What is FitPay?

The 3rd Nextgen Payments Forum, taking place on 27-28 February 2018 in Malta, will connect more than 80 key industry players and financial experts from all over the globe, who will network and gain top insights from presentations delivered from over 16 industry-leading experts. These thought leaders will be sharing their knowledge and expertise on the future of the financial services industry.

Fare evasion costs UK rail operators in the region of £240m annually. Tackling fraudulent travel by those travelling without a valid ticket, providing false information or more complex avoidance techniques has always been an on-going challenge. 

Now, evading payment by exploiting technical complexities in the current penalty system will soon be a thing of the past as Spire Payments teams up with ITAL to deliver an mPOS based penalty notice system called PayMe.  

The advent of blockchain heralds the biggest change in banking for 400 years. Banks were originally established to lend and safely hold money and to act as a central point of authority with the banking ledger being the absolute record of truth held by an independent third party.  With blockchain, we now have a centralised distributed digital ledger.

Saxo Bank Group (“The Group”) reported a positive net profit of DKK 401 million for 2017, an increase of 33 per cent compared to 2016. Client collateral deposits continued to rise to DKK 103.6 billion while the operating income for the group was DKK 3.0 billion, a three per cent increase compared to 2016.

Saxo Bank Group continued to strengthen its capital position with the total capital ratio for the Group reaching 22.7 per cent as of the end of 2017 compared to 19.5 per cent at the end of 2016, thus retaining a comfortable buffer.