Wolters Kluwer’s Finance, Risk & Reporting business is hosting a Current Expected Credit Loss (CECL) Mock Earnings Call at next week’s 2nd Edition CECL 2018 Congress, organized by The Center for Financial Professionals. The conference, to be held at the New York Marriott Downtown on March 21^st and 22^nd, is sponsored by Wolters Kluwer and will be attended by leading banks who will share their experience of CECL modelling, providing an update on progress made towards CECL implementation.

A global leader in corporate and consumer foreign exchange solutions, OANDA recently announced a collaboration with Dell Boomi™, a leading provider of cloud integration and workflow automation software, to offer the OANDA Exchange Rates API Connector to all Dell Boomi™ customers.

Today, Valuable Capital Group, part of the SINA Corporation Group, and Saxo Bank, the leading Fintech specialist focused on multi-asset trading and investment, announce an agreement to form a new partnership. The two parties will cooperate to provide diversified, convenient and professional global investment services leveraging Saxo Bank’s unique trading technology and access to global capital markets.

 Ethoca, the industry standard for collaboration-based technology solutions that enable card issuers and online merchants to increase card acceptance and stop ecommerce fraud and disputes, today announced the launch of its new Integrated Solution Suite. When adopted at full scale across the industry, Ethoca’s suite of products – including Ethoca Eliminator, Ethoca Alerts and Enhanced Representments – can mitigate up to 90% of chargebacks from genuine fraud, friendly (or first-party) fraud and false claims.

Asia Pacific Exchange Pte (APEX), confirms today that it will launch a new and customized clearing system delivered by Cinnober. Based on TRADExpress RealTime Clearing, a comprehensive real-time clearing system for OTC and exchange-traded markets, APEX and their new derivatives marketplace will provide a complete end-to-end solution for the post-trade value chain.

Thanks to CECL granular data requirements are here to stay. But how can firms tame the new data requirements by adapting their IT and data infrastructure? Will Newcomer, Vice President of Product & Strategy for Wolters Kluwer’s Finance, Risk & Reporting Americas business, explores the options.

Trust is everything in the aviation industry. And a successful cyber attack – even a minor one against something like an in-flight entertainment system – could undermine confidence in airlines or even the entire aviation industry.

Adyen, the payments platform of choice for the world’s leading companies, today announced the launch of its point of sale (POS) offering in Singapore, extending its unified commerce footprint to 27 countries and more than 4,000 cities. 

Palo Alto Networks, the next-generation security company, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire U.S.-based Evident.io, a pioneer and leader in cloud services infrastructure protection. Under the terms of the agreement, Palo Alto Networks will acquire Evident.io for a total purchase price of $300 million to be paid in cash. The acquisition is expected to close during Palo Alto Networks fiscal third quarter, subject to satisfaction of customary closing conditions. Evident.io's co-founders, Tim Prendergast and Justin Lundy, will join Palo Alto Networks.