When the risk of getting your insurance marketing wrong could cost you more than just conversions, it's easy to ignore digital, social and marketing potential and rely on outdated legacy systems that hold you back. So how are other insurance companies improving their marketing and digital results by monetising social media, making the most of customer data and utilising technological advances within the changing compliance landscape? It’s a battle for insurance marketers to become agile, stay up-to-date and cater to changing customer expectations!

Bahrain-based Bank ABC, MENA’s leading international banking group, has recently joined blockchain-inspired consortium headed by R3, a financial innovation firm, headquartered in New York City. 

Euronext today announces it has completed the acquisition of c.90% of FastMatch, the fastest growing Electronic Communication Network (“ECN”) in the spot foreign exchange market, after having received regulatory and anti-trust approvals.

 Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced that FICO (NYSE: FICO) has selected AWS as its cloud provider.

At Synechron, we’re often asked by our financial services clients for our perspective on the blockchain platform most suited to their use cases. Having developed functional applications upon each of the leading enterprise blockchains–Ethereum and its enterprise version Quorum, Fabric, and Corda – all have one thing in common: they are open source platforms.

Dragos Inc., (pronounced Dray-gohs), an industrial control system (ICS) cybersecurity company made up of industry experts with the vision of securing global industrial infrastructure, announced today that it has received a $10 million Series A round of venture capital from co-lead investors Energy Impact Partners (EIP) and Allegis Capital, with additional support from DataTribe, a cybersecurity startup studio that initially funded Dragos.

For quite some time now, millennials have been the primary target market for a vast majority of industries. Everything they do – every website they visit, purchase they make, and even their location throughout the day – is analysed by numerous businesses, ensuring that they are showcasing the right products to them at the right time, desperate to gain their custom and ultimately their loyalty.

Peer-to-peer mobile payments are nothing new with the likes of Paym, Google Wallet and most major UK bank offering this feature, but the announcement of WhatsApp offering P2P payments could accelerate the adoption of this payment method. With P2P money transfer users expected to grow in the UK by almost 2 million, to over 10 million users by 2020, this move by WhatsApp is only going to accelerate this growth.

The online payments landscape is one of the fastest growing industries in the world. Global retail eCommerce transaction volumes for products and services reached US$1.9 trillion in 2016 and are estimated to grow to over US$4 trillion by 2020.

With such large volumes and the constant evolution of the digital payments sphere, security is naturally the number one concern.

The 3D Secure protocol has been around since the early 2000’s and provides an extra layer of security in card-not-present online payments. The benefits of implementing 3DS are widely known and accepted.