Financial IT magazine has been published continuously now for over five years. A comparison of the earliest editions with the more recent editions is striking. Relative to early 2014, far more of the articles that we publish have been contributed by financial institutions and far more have been contributed by IT companies that are, by most metrics, large and long-lived.

Gemalto, the world leader in digital security, is supplying its Cogent Automated Biometric Identification System (CABIS) and LiveScan technology to the Ugandan Police.

Barclays announces the appointment of Riaz Ladhabhoy as a Managing Director and Co-Head of Internet Banking, Americas in the Technology Banking Group. 

ABN AMRO and Dell EMC today opened a laboratory in Amstelveen, the Netherlands, where scientists and students can perform data research. 

Central 1, creating digital solutions that make everyday banking easier, today announces the launch of technology that allows financial institutions to offer SecureKey ConciergeTM, a single sign-on authentication service, to their members. 

WiV, a trading platform for fine wines, has confirmed that it will be ready for launch in mid-2019. It is already offering pre-launch services to producers, merchants, distributors and investors across Europe and has ambitions to move into Asia early in 2019. 

Profile Software, an international Financial solutions provider, announced today that over the past year, it has significantly expanded its Global Partner Network with new partnerships to represent its solutions across Europe and Asia, servicing the banking and investment management industries.

Realising and investing in the growth of its established Partner Network, Profile has come to an agreement to locally support and deliver its award-winning platforms with firms in specific regions that also operate internationally. Namely, these include:

New research from Mactavish, the UK’s leading expert on commercial insurance governance and disputes, reveals 43% of senior executives and managers believe their employers have suffered at least one cyber-attack in the past two years.

However, only 31% of those who said this thought it had been dealt with ‘very well’. Just over one in five (21%) thought they dealt with it ‘poorly’.

Consumers and suppliers both trust brands to effectively secure their payment data, however research shows that compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), the standard that protects this data is slipping. In order to stop this downward trend, businesses need to reassess their measurement methodologies for PCI control effectiveness, and to concentrate on managing the sustainability of their data protection.