This year, London will be home to just as many fintech ‘unicorns’ as current global leader San Francisco – according to a new report from global recruiter Robert Walters and market analysis experts Vacancy Soft.

Leading the industry with solutions protecting mobile financial services offerings, NICE Actimize, a NICE (Nasdaq: NICE) business and the leader in Autonomous Financial Crime Management, was chosen by Varo Money, Inc. a leading all-mobile banking company to implement its financial crime strategy for anti-money laundering protections including AML/KYC requirements, sanctions screening and transaction monitoring capabilities.

LexisNexis® Risk Solutions, the global information solutions provider, and part of RELX, has announced the appointment of Steve Elliot as Managing Director of its UK Business Services business unit.

Steve joins LexisNexis Risk Solutions from resourcing and consultancy firm Huntswood, where he also served as managing director. He has 25 years’ experience providing financial crime and payment solutions to clients across financial services, gaming, utilities and payment firms.

Volante Technologies Inc., a global provider of software for accelerated end-to-end payments processing and financial message integration, today announced that 

Assetz Capital is kicking off the new ISA season by boosting returns for new and existing investors with up to 2% cashback on all new investments. Terms and conditions apply.

To benefit from the cashback offer, users simply have to lend new funds through any of the peer-to-peer business lender’s investment accounts between 6^th April and 31^st May 2019.

Today’s consumers expect a frictionless customer journey, regardless of whether they are shopping online, applying for a mortgage or opening a new bank account. Delivering such a seamless customer experience will require banks to not only boost their digital capabilities but also to fully transform their business operations to adapt to the changing marketplace.

Compass Plus will be showcasing its TranzAxis Instant Issuance solution at Seamless Middle East 2019 – giving attendees the opportunity to see how they can deliver a fully personalised EMV payment card to their customers in a matter of minutes.

The demo, in partnership with Evolis, will take place at Compass Plus’ stand (C60) during Seamless Middle East on 10-11 April. In order to demonstrate the full capabilities of the TranzAxis Instant Issuance solution, Compass Plus has partnered with Evolis – a badge and card printing solutions provider.

2018 saw unprecedented advances in the investment and deployment of artificial intelligence capabilities within the insurance industry, and 2019 promises to be no different. With the Insurance AI and Analytics USA Summit kicking off in Chicago, May 2-3, we spoke to some of our speakers to gauge their thoughts on the challenges insurance carriers face in implementing AI, and how the summit will help insurance carriers address these issues through holistic, innovative and proven strategies.

Global Data Center, a leading provider of a cutting-edge data center facility in Israel, has completed the doubling of its facility in an investment of millions of dollars.