Finastra announced today that FINCA Impact Finance, a global network of 20 community-based microfinance institutions and banks, has gone live with Fusion Risk to improve its short-term regulatory compliance and reporting in line with the International Financial Reporting Standard 9 (IFRS9).

Plenitude,  a niche consultancy, specialising in Financial Crime Risk and Compliance has announced the appointment of Steve Vinnicombe, former UK CEO of Capco UK, as a Non-Executive Director to help deliver Plenitude’s ambitious growth plans to meet the challenges posed by the evolving landscape of Financial Crime compliance.

Fenergo, a leading provider of Client Lifecycle Management (CLM) solutions for financial institutions today announced the creation of a Fenergo-powered application on Salesforce AppExchange. 

90% of schemes think prospects have improved thanks to member banks and regulators increasing support as they diversify beyond card-only payments

The Payments Jury today released its latest report which focuses on Domestic Payment Schemes, revealing that confidence is at an all-time high with 90% of domestic schemes indicating that prospects have improved thanks to member bank and regulatory support alongside increased cross-border collaboration and diversification beyond card-only payments.

Mobey Forum, the global industry association empowering banks and other financial institutions to shape the future of digital financial services, today announces the formation of the Digital ID Expert Group. 

Pure Storage (NYSE: PSTG), the all-flash storage leader that helps innovators build a better world with data, today announced Pure Storage Cloud Data Services, a suite of new cloud offerings that run on Amazon Web Services (AWS). With these new products, customers can invest in a single storage architecture that unifies application deployments on-premises and on the cloud to flexibly turn data into value virtually anywhere.

Endpoint protection solutions and prevention are very effective when it comes to fighting commodity cyber threats like malware. But F-Secure and its managed service providers now give businesses an even better weapon with the new F-Secure Rapid Detection & Response and its innovative features including Broad Context Detection™ and Elevate to F-Secure.

Gemalto (Euronext NL0000400653 GTO), the world leader in digital security, has today announced it is expanding its delivery footprint for Access Management as a service solutions across the European Union with additional data centers in the region.

I read with interest the article in the FT that looked at how Cyber security efforts have turned proactive after sophisticated attacks and detailed what organisations are now proactively doing to prevent attacks. In particular the article homed in on how concerns have now spilled over into mergers and acquisitions, where cyber security has become a much greater focus for due diligence. Indeed, a spokesperson from Linklaters stated how deals have n

When large organizations – complex in structure and deliberate with their decision-making – and startups – rapidly-paced innovators with powerful technologies – sit at the same table, it’s easier to see the (many) differences. The former may employ 50,000 people, while the latter could’ve been founded in a municipality half the size.