Assetz Capital has launched its Innovative Finance ISA today.

The business peer-to-peer (P2P) lender’s ISA is available as a wrapper on all of the automated investment accounts, with the Manual Lending Account also set to be allowed into the ISA in early 2018.

Bahrain Middle East Bank (BMB) has chosen Wolters Kluwer’s OneSumX for Finance solution to provide the basis for its core banking and reporting system.

Sequel, the leading insurance and reinsurance software specialist, has today announced that Qatar Insurance Company (QIC), the international insurance firm based in the Middle East, has chosen Sequel Impact to help its offshore energy team manage its global exposure to risk for their Lloyd’s Antares Syndicate, QIC and Qatar Re businesses. 

eGain, the leading provider of cloud-based customer engagement solutions, today announced its integration with Salesforce.com.

"Businesses are increasingly layering customer engagement systems on top of systems of record such as CRM for differentiation and innovation," said Ashu Roy, eGain CEO. "eGain Solve for Salesforce.com complements Salesforce CRM with award-winning knowledge management, AI, and digital capabilities for customer service."

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A new corporate supply chain finance platform launches today, which aims to improve credit management and provide additional transparency, security and flexibility for banks and their corporate customers.

We live in an age of analytics; every day in this data-driven world, we’re giving away personal information, sometimes without even realising it. For example, to access new services I need to enter my personal details, with the trade-off being the uncertainty as to where and how my information will be stored and shared. And this happens all around the world, every single day. But do people feel they are fully aware of the personal data that government currently holds on each of us? And do people trust them with this responsibility?

This time Howard Berg, Senior Vice President of Gemalto shared with Financial IT his insights on the importance of biometrics in payments and what value can it add to merchants and consumers at FinTech Connect Live 2017.

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Cybersecurity company Nixu has grown in recent years in accordance with its growth vision to become a go-to-partner in cybersecurity services for companies headquartered in Northern Europe and the best place to work for cybersecurity professionals. Following its strategy, Nixu has grown to be over 300 person strong with offices in Finland, Sweden, Netherlands, USA and Romania.