Sageworks, a Raleigh, N.C., headquartered firm that offers lending, credit risk and portfolio risk solutions to U.S. banks and credit unions launched an integration with the Salesforce.com, inc.™ customer relationship management (CRM) platform.

Institutions may be using this CRM for sales, service and marketing operations, and with the new integration with Sageworks, institutions can simplify information sharing between lending, credit and portfolio risk teams.

Users of the integration will now be able to:

Hedge Trackers, a premier provider of hedge program management solutions for foreign currency, interest rate and commodity risk, today announced that early adoption of ASU2017-12 is being supported through its outsourcing services and its derivative accounting software, CapellaFX.

LexisNexis Risk Solutions, a global data technology and advanced analytics leader, announced today that its parent company, RELX Group, has closed the acquisition of ThreatMetrix. ThreatMetrix will become part of RELX Group’s Risk & Business Analytics segment, which includes LexisNexis Risk Solutions.

HCL Technologies (HCL) continues to be recognized for its global leadership in next–generation digital services for the financial services organizations. HCL has been named a leader for digital services in consumer banking by Everest Group ‘Service Provider Landscape with PEAK Matrix™ Assessment 2018 for Digital Services in Consumer Banking’. In the study, HCL secured high scores for both ‘vision and capabilities’ as well as ‘market impact’.

 IPC, a leading global provider of secure, compliant communications and networking solutions for the financial markets community, and GreenKey Technologies, creator of patented voice software with integrated speech recognition designed specifically for the financial markets, today announced that they have just signed an agreement for a significant

Lloyds Banking Group today launched a new £3bn investment in a three-year strategy to bolster its digital capabilities. The bank is driving capital towards technology and its staff to compete against an increasingly competitive backdrop of other traditional banks, challenger banks and fintechs.[1]

KASIKORNBANK (KBank), one of the largest commercial banks in Thailand, has chosen the Avaloq Banking Suite to support the growth of its private banking and wealth management business. KBank Private Banking, the leading provider of banking and wealth services to High Net Worth Individuals (HNWIs) in Thailand with a market share of around 40%, has selected Avaloq to upgrade its customer service infrastructure and to improve internal processes. The project will be Avaloq’s first in Thailand, strengthening its position in the APAC region.

EvoSwitch, an international and cloud-neutral colocation company with large data centers located in Amsterdam and Washington DC with their cloud interconnection platform EvoSwitch OpenCloud, announces its plans to build a new highly energy-efficient data center in Amsterdam. The new carrier-neutral facility in the Netherlands will be located adjacent to its existing Amsterdam premises, EvoSwitch AMS1.

Over one-third of all security incidents start with phishing emails or malicious attachments sent to company employees, according to a new report published today by global cyber security company F-Secure.