Finastra has appointed Margaret Franco as Chief Marketing Officer. Joining from Dell Technologies, she is based at Finastra’s London headquarters and takes responsibility for leadership of the global marketing organization, including corporate communications, brand, digital, solutions and field and partner marketing.

LexisNexis® Risk Solutions is honoured to announce it is named as a leader among risk-based authentication (RBA) providers in The Forrester Wave™: Risk-Based Authentication, Q2 2020 report. Forrester positioned LexisNexis Risk Solutions as having the highest score in the strategy category among all vendors included in the report.

Wolters Kluwer’s Finance, Risk & Reporting (FRR) business has released an update for its OneSumX for Regulatory Reporting solution to allow clients to meet the Second-Generation People’s Bank of China Enterprise Credit Reference Submission.

Leading cryptocurrency exchange bitFlyer, is partnering with crypto-trading game developer Quazard, to bring the first ever gamified trading competition to the Botwars Ultimate Trading universe.

Kompli-Global, the leading RegTech AML specialist, announced today that it is certified by Hellios  making it easier for the UK’s leading banks to adopt  Kompli-Global’s innovative services including Kompli-QED its new remote on-boarding platform. This distinction places Kompli-Global as a trusted partner for those in financial services seeking its services to combat fraud and money laundering.

As National Volunteer Week gets underway, Royal Voluntary Service has identified two Mastercard issuers to provide trusted payment cards to NHS Volunteer Responders. These can be applied for by the critically vulnerable and those self-isolating to give to volunteers to pay for their shopping, in a safe and secure way.

Since the start of the COVID-19 outbreak, much focus and value has been put on contactless and online interactions – particularly in the financial sector. New research commissioned by global analytics software provider FICO, conducted just before the pandemic took hold, shows that online interactions were already very much par for the course amongst UK consumers. The challenge for financial institutions appears to be ensuring that the entire on-boarding process can be completed digitally. 

Onfido, the global identity verification and authentication company, has announced a partnership with SalaryDost, a leading digital consumer lending platform in India, to provide identity verification with real-time live video checks to verify users and for a robust Know Your Customer (KYC) solution.

Just 6% of financial services organisations say it’s essential for them to modernise their legacy systems to meet current regulatory and legislative demands. This surprisingly low figure is according to new global research from Advanced, which also reveals that only 20% cite an inability to meet compliance and regulatory demands as their top reason for modernising mainframe based legacy systems.