Digital proxy voting by institutional investors is expected to become a bigger focus at Annual General Meetings in 2020 after the successful deployment in Australia of Citi’s Proxymity^SM voting platform, in collaboration with Computershare, during the recent AGM season.

In its first large-scale adoption in Australia in late 2019, Proxymity was employed for 561 Australian shareholder meetings with votes covering A$86 billion (US$58 billion) shares being performed across the Proxymity Platform.  

Amaiz, the banking and bookkeeping service for small businesses owners, has announced its partnership with ValidSoft, the company at the leading edge of voice biometric technology, a solution that secures all transaction channels. The partnership will enable Amaiz to offer next generation voice biometric security.

With the adoption of distributed ledger technology (DLT) expected to grow in financial services, The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the premier market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, today published a white paper, Security of DLT Networks, that recommends establishing a comprehensive industry-wide DLT Security Framework to review existing security guidelines, gaps in the approach to DLT security, and the need for in

Backbase, the world’s leading digital banking platform provider, is delighted to announce Thomas Fuss as Chief Technology Officer, effective January 2020.

With a proven track record of leading forward-thinking engineering and delivery teams, Thomas will lead Backbase’s overall technology strategy. He will particularly keep a strong focus on leveraging open standards and native cloud technologies to accelerate the development of next generation omni-channel digital banking solutions.

Wolters Kluwer’s Compliance Program Management (CPM) business has won two major awards for its OneSumX CPM for Regulatory Change Management and OneSumX CPM for Operational Risk software, winning “Solution of the Year” accolades in Finance Monthly magazine’s hotly contested FinTech Awards 2020. Finance Monthly is a global publication from the Universal Media stable, providing news, comment and analysis, distributed to more than 195,000 people each month.

While a burgeoning tech industry, education and the value of the pound have made UK tech start-ups an attractive target for investors outside the UK – with investment in UK tech start-ups growing 44 percent to £10.1bn in 2019 – businesses need to be aware that they may only have a short window to attract investors, city law firm Fox Williams LLP has warned.

Centage Corporation (www.centage.com), leading provider of cloud financial software that transforms how businesses budget, forecast, analyze and report, announced today that it has promoted Nate Burnes into the newly created role of Vice President of Customer Success, reporting directly to the CEO of Centage.

Smartlands, the next-generation blockchain-based global investment and digital banking ecosystem, will be expanding its legal framework in order to create a broader set of options for high-net-worth individuals.

Managers and directors in British businesses want more action and less box-ticking in their workplace in 2020, according to a major new study conducted by YouGov for IRIS Software Group.

The research, which looked at the views of over 500 respondents in multiple fields across business and education, revealed nearly half (48%) are yearning for software to reduce their administrative burden. Respondents highlight this as the one thing that would have the biggest positive impact on their organisation in 2020, allowing them to focus on higher value work each day.

IHS Markit, a world leader in critical information, analytics and solutions, today announced a collaboration with Credit Benchmark in which it will use Credit Benchmark’s credit risk analytics in its Securities Finance platform to offer additional performance measurement and reporting capabilities for global lending programs.