British businesses are facing an existential crisis; business consulting firm, Virtusa, predicts that hundreds are at risk due to the explosive growth of innovative tech giants led by Baidu, Alibaba, and Tencent (BAT), and Amazon. Virtusa warns that UK firms that deliver services, such as banks and telcos, are lagging behind in the digital economy compared to firms, such as those in China, that capitalize on emerging trends in other markets where those companies, like BAT, have perfected a new, horizontal business model.

Traveller expectations are at an all-time high. In the age of on-demand, mobile services and the convenience of ‘tap-and-go’ technology, the public transport industry is under increasing pressure to deliver the same, high-quality interoperable experience with its ticketing solutions. 

Technological innovations are enabling institutions to merge their Finance, Risk and Regulatory Reporting (FRR) functions into a set of processes to help meet the twin demands of regulatory compliance and a competitive commercial landscape.

Capitolis, the pioneering technology provider for the capital markets, announces today it is live with its foreign exchange credit switching service, Capitolis Switch.

Capitolis’ mission is to address capital markets constraints in the financial system. With the launch of Capitolis Switch, a key credit issue is addressed, enabling the unbundling of execution, processing, capital and risk in foreign exchange prime broking.

When Mark Zuckerberg was called in for two days of questioning by Congress earlier this month, the world waited to hear what questions these powerful lawmakers, many former lawyers, had to ask. With the CEO founder of Facebook in the hot seat, would they ask the questions that technology specialists and journalists on both sides of the Atlantic have been asking ever since the Cambridge Analytica scandal broke in March 2018?

Competition Now Open, CLICK HERE to Enter

Closing date: 17:00 on Thursday 31^st May 2018

Text: After two years of success, the PIMFA FinTech Solutions Competition, held by the Personal Investment Management and Financial Advice Association (PIMFA), is holding its third open competition for companies to present their ‘FinTech Solution’ at the PIMFA Fintech Conference 2018 on 12th September 2018.

US Bank today announced a partnership with Enservio, Inc., a Solera Holdings, Inc. company, and the leading provider of contents claim management software, services, and payments solutions for property insurers. 

Socure, the leading provider of predictive analytics for digital identity verification, today announced that veteran technology executive Tom Thimot has joined the company as Chief Executive Officer. 

encompass, the only provider of simultaneous, real-time access to multiple sources of global company and person data, today announced a new reseller partnership in Japan with Nikkei Media Marketing (Nikkei MM), strategic information partner to companies and organisations.

Continuity, a leading provider of automated compliance management technology for financial institutions, announced today that Apple Bank, the second-largest state chartered savings bank in New York State with $12.8 billion in assets and 79 branches in greater New York, has selected Continuity’s RegAdvisor®Pro, RegControls™ and ControlsBuilder™ to help manage and address its compliance management needs.