Rahul Singh, President and Global Head, Financial Services at HCL Technologies highlights how HCL is helping Financial Services Institutions adopt new FinTech trends and explains the way technology is changing in the Financial Services industry.

CaseWare UK Ltd, an accounting software provider to corporates and practitioners, is announcing the launch of its fully automated International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) solution at Accountex London 2018.

The IFRS Beta solution is part of CaseWare’s AccountsAdvanced, and is being released on 23 May 2018 to current CaseWare licence holders, with the full solution scheduled to be made available later in 2018.

Secure cloud processing of financial institutions’ material non-public information (MNPI) for purposes of regulatory and risk reporting

A sophisticated combination of technical architecture and operational processes

The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) 10th annual Global Survey shows that 60% of banks are moving towards greater digitalisation, though only 9% say technology solutions have so far increased efficiency. 
Over 60% of banks surveyed in the new ICC report—Global Trade: Securing Future Growth—reported to have implemented, or to be in the process of implementing, technology solutions to digitalise their trade finance operations. 

A new research report released today reveals that 50% of UK accountants say they would be “comfortable” working alongside a “robot colleague” in their job. However, 32% say they don’t know how they would feel working with a robot colleague, with 18% stating they would be “uncomfortable”.

Expert mentorship, financial support, data and office services as well as direct access to the global Smartkarma network available

Last century, one of most dramatic changes to the banking ecosystem was the integration of digital technology, both with back office and customer-facing systems. Today, we are entering a whole new phase. Customer demographics are shifting as technologies evolve, giving rise to a digitised market dynamic and a new playground for financial services, one that offers challenges and opportunities for banks and financial institutions that didn’t exist just a few years ago.

These are the droids you’re looking for

ITRS Group, the leading provider of real-time monitoring and IT operations analytics to financial services firms, has announced a partnership with MapR, a pioneer in delivering the industry's leading data platform for AI and analytics, both on site and across the cloud. The collaboration will see MapR software integrated with ITRS Geneos.

Partnership with leading institutions including Citi, HSBC, BlueCrest

and Brevan Howard

Capitolis, the pioneering technology provider for the capital markets, announced today that it has launched a groundbreaking novation service in foreign exchange (FX). Citi, HSBC, BlueCrest and Brevan Howard, among many other market participants, have collaborated with Capitolis on this service, which is the first of its kind in FX.

Disruptive model encourages innovation by providing self-service identity management tools to technical and creative audiences

AimBrain has unveiled a free-for-life platform that lets entrepreneurs, app developers and technical audiences swap PINS, passwords and codes for facial and voice user verification, in an autonomous, trial-to-deployment environment.