Gregory Pennington, one of the UK's largest and longest established debt management companies, has integrated an Open Banking solution, provided by Equifax in partnership with AccountScore, into its annual customer review process. The technology automates an often onerous operation for customers, saving time and inconvenience, as well as significantly reducing Gregory Pennington’s operational costs.

Ever wondered what the operational differences are between multi-cloud, hybrid-cloud and public cloud? Speakers at The Cloud Migration Summit - Russell Warman, Head of Infrastructure and Operations at Auto Trader UK, and Andy Nelson, Associate Director of Informatics & Cloud Operations at Illumina, as they speak from experience about the benefits, challenges, considerations and strategy in choosing their specific cloud architecture.

Torstone Technology, a leading provider of post-trade securities and derivatives processing technology, has announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Percentile, a provider of real-time, cloud-based risk and compliance technology to global financial markets.

The word biometrics is derived from two Greek words – bio meaning “life” and metrics meaning “to measure”. Biometrics are thus biological measurements, often used in automated methods, to recognize a person based on a physiological or a behavioural attribute. In this blogpost I will explore the topic of biometric authentication in relation to payment systems and its promising role in transforming face-to-face payments in the future.

Brewin Dolphin, one of the UK’s largest wealth managers with £34.9 billion in discretionary funds under management, has selected Avaloq to transform its back office infrastructure through Avaloq’s Software as a Service (SaaS) solution.

The project will significantly enhance Brewin Dolphin’s digital capabilities at a time of increasing market competition and a need by all financial institutions to capitalise on the powerful benefits that cloud-based SaaS technologies can deliver.

Fintech lending platform, Freedom Finance, has expanded its digital capabilities with a transition to a cloud-based service.   

The new platform embraces the latest technology trends such as cloud native applications, API gateway and micro-service. The platform will deliver increased speed and efficiency for borrowers and for the lenders on Freedom Finance’s panel.

Finastra today announced the first public hackathon on its FusionFabric.cloud open development platform, underpinned by Microsoft Azure. The FusionONE Hackathon will take place over the weekend of May 17-19 in London. Teams from banks, Fintechs, integrators and independent developers are invited to join the event and create innovations grounded in Open Banking.

A new report launched today by strategy advisors Arkwright and commissioned by Signicat, a leader in verified digital identity solutions, examines the success of digital identity in the Nordics, and explores how other countries can learn from this model.

Exscudo is proud to announce that we have added support for direct currency exchange in the Channels App. Our clients are already able to exchange EON, BTC and ETH while support of direct exchange of TUSD, OMG, LTC, DASH, QTUM, ZEC, CTKT, EURT, USDT, XMR and EUR will be added shortly. The new feature allows users to exchange currencies without having to move their funds out of our wallet app while benefiting from low fees, previously available only in traditional banks.

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