The Internet of Things has become ingratiated into our everyday lives, but despite this, there still remains a lack of control in both those delivering products and those receiving them.  2019 will bring with it greater understanding of monetisation, but also greater security risk.

Here’s our top 5 IOT predictions for 2019:

FICO, a leading analytics company, today announced that it has been named a category winner in the 2019 Chartis’ 

HPR (Hyannis Port Research), provider of advanced capital markets infrastructure (CMI) technologies, today announced the launch of Omnibot™, a first-of-its-kind networking device that integrates market access, risk management, data and latency capture functionality into a multi-application switch. Through the combination of FPGA-based risk hardware and a network switch within a single device, HPR has introduced a "net-zero" latency solution by performing risk checks in parallel with switching.

Wolters Kluwer’s Finance, Risk & Reporting (FRR) business has won a major award for the Asia Pacific (APAC) region. Regulation Asia has named Wolters Kluwer’s OneSumX for Regulatory Reporting the “Best Solution in Regulatory Reporting” in its Awards for Excellence, 2018.

Sage (FTSE: SGE), the market leader in cloud business management solutions, today announced that its AI platform, Pegg, has solved 1 million customer and employee queries since launch. This milestone marks significant productivity savings across Sage’s customer services, travel and expenses, and recruitment departments.

Augmented intelligence solutions provider Squirro has launched a new machine learning service that is one of the world’s first to include an Annotation Workbench that enables organisations to compose training data sets within the platform.

encompass has been highly commended in the RegTech category for AI & Machine Learning in the inaugural Regulation Asia Awards for Excellence 2018 at a ceremony in Singapore on 13 November 2018.

The firm emerged as one of the top innovators in the category after a rigorous selection process, involving a judging panel made up of subject-matter experts and the Regulation Asia editorial team. 

PFU (EMEA) Limited, a Fujitsu company, the world's leading scanner manufacturer, today announced it has partnered with international cloud bookkeeping solutions provider Hubdoc to enable accountants and bookkeepers to digitise and process large volumes of financial documents quickly and efficiently.

Australian Securities Exchange and Frankfurt Stock Exchange cross listed iSignthis Ltd (ASX : ISX | FRA : TA8) (the “Company”), is pleased to announce that it has executed an eCommerce Acquiring Business agreement with Diners Club International Ltd.

Diners Club International Ltd. is a direct banking and payment services company owned by Discover Financial Services (NYSE: DFS), with local website at https://www.dinersclub.com.au

Workday, Inc.(NASDAQ: WDAY), a leader in enterprise cloud applications for finance and human resources, today announced that customers including