At todays Innovation Finance event that was wonderfully attended and organised the topical issue of Cyber crime was presented. It amazed me that there are so many new vendors producing imaginative system solutions that cover cyber crime protection and prevention.

One thing that came over relentlessly during all the presentations was that anyone and everyone is open to cyber crime and the question is only when it will impact you not if.

There have been a lot of headlines over the past few years announcing that ‘Alternative Finance Is Storming The Barricades of Traditional Banking’. The revolutionaries in the alternative finance movement argue that they are going to sweep away the old order and offer customers a complete alternative – they will no longer need their old providers in this brave new world. Alternative finance will meet their needs on its own.

Misys FusionInvest is a fully integrated cross-asset solution for investment management that leverages straight-through-processing to handle the complete trading life cycle from portfolio management, to middle- and back-office operations, to risk management and compliance. It combines sell-side level financial and technological capabilities with the user-friendliness, modularity, connectivity and ease of implementation required by the buy-side. FusionInvest has been adopted by over 90 institutions worldwide, from start-up hedge funds to global asset management companies.

The IMSplus Investment Management platform (available on desktop, web and mobile) serves the BFSI industry with specialised solutions for each sector. IMSplus is built to offer flexibility and ease-of-use, fulfilling complex and evolving business requirements in the global Investment Management domain.IMSplus is an integrated, yet modular investment management platform that effectively supports the respective operations of any type of financial entity.

A new report from Telstra reveals the majority of United Kingdom (UK) consumers using mobile banking applications want their mobile devices to instantly recognise them via biometrics, such as fingerprint and voiceprint, instead of having to prove who they are with passwords and usernames.

Omni-channel banking is a hot topic, fuelled by the need to provide the best customer experience (CX) no matter what channel a consumer chooses, or how many times they chop and change between channels during a transaction. But is this utopia really possible?

I think the answer is yes, but it’s not going to be easy to accomplish.

'Faux amis', a well-known trap for French students, is the concept of words that appear similar, but actually have rather different meanings. A similar situation is emerging in data management. Over the last twelve months, a phrase better known in the enterprise tech world – MDM, or 'master data management' – has entered common parlance. But what does it really mean in this context?

Misys, the leading financial software company, has appointed a new President and Chief Sales Officer, Simon Paris. As Misys continues on its growth trajectory, Simon Paris is taking responsibility for the entire go-to-market organisation, including sales, marketing, pre-sales and partners.

Simon will use his considerable experience to deepen customer engagement and drive revenue growth for the Misys Fusion software portfolio. He will be instrumental in expanding the existing customer base as well as driving new business from banks and financial institutions.

 Alacra Inc., the leading provider of business information solutions for financial institutions, corporations and professional service firms, announced today a significant uptake of its unique 

SWIFT announces that its Standards Consulting Services team has delivered over 150 ISO 20022 consulting projects to more than 70 clients across the globe.

Based on this experience, and given the growing market interest in ISO 20022, SWIFT is now issuing best practice implementation guidelines, which complement its Standards Consulting Services.