The Business Intelligence Group today announced that CSPi's ARIA Software Defined Security (SDS) platform has won the 2018 Fortress Cyber Security Awards for the Innovative Security Product category.

3W Infra, a fast growing Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) hosting provider from Amsterdam with global operations and more than 4,600 dedicated servers under management, has added the Asteroid Internet Exchange Point (IXP) to its ecosystem of network infrastructure providers. Under the signed cooperation agreement, 3W Infra will interconnect its high-volume (160 Gbps) global network with Asteroid’s IXP in Amsterdam.

Sigma Designs, a leading provider of intelligent system-on-chip (SoC) solutions for connected smart home IoT, is proud to announce a cumulative lifetime 100M Z-Wave modules have shipped into the smart home market. With hundreds of customers shipping over 2,400 interoperable Z-Wave devices, Sigma Designs is pleased to highlight that the recipient of the 100 millionth module was the smart home service provider and long-time customer of Sigma Designs, Vivint Smart Home.  

Cisco announced the appointment of Mark Garrett, former Adobe Systems Incorporated EVP and CFO, to its board of directors effective immediately.

BOS SaaS cloud service has been "pressure-tested" by a global major player with extreme load peaks of up to 66 IDs per second, delivering a record-breaking average (fully automated end-to-end) processing speed of 4.5 seconds per image. Only AU10TIX BOS 2nd generation ID authentication & Onboarding platform can perform, in an average of 4.5 seconds, a complete process of ID image screening, optimization, auto-classification, content extraction and forensic-level forgery, counterfeiting and risk flag detection.

It is safe to say there has been a proliferation of newly launched banking APIs (application programming interfaces) in the last few years. From Europe to Asia Pacific, more and more financial institutions are embracing the open banking movement and it can be difficult to track new releases. Recently, while conducting research, I came across openbankingapis.io: a website tracking banking API efforts around the globe.

Cash-flow is the heartbeat of most organisations. Without access to secure working capital, it is difficult for businesses to operate effectively on a day to day basis. In the long-term, poor cash flow can impact more than just the operational efficiency of the business. It can also affect relationships with suppliers, increase employee stress and cause businesses to miss sales opportunities. As such, the management and collection of debt is an important activity as this ensures that sales are converted into cash as quickly as possible.

Silicon Valley analytics software firm FICO today announced that Amazon Web Services (AWS) is joining FICO® World 2018, a leading Decisions conference on artificial intelligence (AI), applied analytics, and decision management, as a platinum sponsor. AWS and Amazon executives will discuss their relationship with FICO to help drive digital transformation in organisations.

Banco Santander today announced the launch of a new international payments service using blockchain-based technology. The service is available to retail customers in Spain, UK, Brazil and Poland, and will be rolled out across more countries in the coming months.

The new service, known as ‘Santander One Pay FX’, makes it possible for customers to complete international transfers on the same day in many cases or by the next day. The service also shows them the exact amount that will be received in the destination currency before they make the transfer.

With the rollout of such a massive regulation as MiFID II, there are bound to be some hiccups, but so far firms are mainly wrestling with trade reporting and data quality issues.