InvestCloud Inc., a global FinTech firm, has appointed Robert O’Boyle as Senior Vice President of Sales to its New York office. 

In this new position, O’Boyle will head up InvestCloud’s sales efforts focused on the traditional Advent Axys and APX market. With more than 20 years of technology and services experience within the investment management community, O’Boyle will lead the firm’s expansion of its core business for Client Communication (Client Portal, Advisor Portal, Digital Advice (Robo)), Trading and Accounting to mid-market clients. 

Temenos (SIX: TEMN), the banking software company, today announced the winners of this year’s Temenos Partner Awards at its annual flagship event, Temenos Community Forum. These awards recognize the contribution that Temenos' partners bring to the Temenos community, and their commitment to building a better future in banking.

In a few short years, on-demand has quickly become the norm. From getting our fix of food, entertainment, shopping or even dating, the majority of our interactions have gone one way: personalised, instant, easy. So, why not insurance? Innovative insurers and agile start-ups have shown that customers are responding to customer-centric models of product delivery and services, available when and where they want them.

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There is growing pressure across the financial services industry for firms to detect market abuse and ensure their companies protection against manipulative market risk. With the emergence of regulations such as the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) and the Market Abuse Regulation (MAR), financial services firms are now required to comply with comprehensive demands aimed at curtailing market abuse and regulating trade activity.

According to our own research, 73% of the public believe banking has already been dramatically changed by technology, while 95% of financial services leaders agree technology is driving change in their organisation. Machine learning is a key part of this and, coupled with new technology, it’s set to change the face of the industry entirely.

RegTek.Solutions, leading provider of global regulatory reporting solutions, today announced the extension of its award-winning platform to include a full reporting solution for the Securities Financing Transactions Regulation (SFTR).

When contemplating FinTech in China, Alibaba and Tencent – among the world’s largest FinTech disruptors – will most likely be at the forefront of discussions. With market capitalizations of around half a trillion US$, the two tech giants account for over 90% of mobile transactions in China (through Alipay and WeChat Pay). However, mobile payments constitute just one aspect of China’s booming FinTech industry.

SWIFT today publishes a new cyber report, ‘Three years on from Bangladesh: tackling the adversaries’, providing new insights into the evolving nature of the cyber threats facing the global financial community.

Key findings show that:

·       Four out of every five of all fraudulent transactions were issued to Beneficiary accounts in South East Asia^1[1]

Integral, the technology partner trusted by leading banks, brokers and asset managers to help them outperform their competition in the foreign exchange market, announced today that Arab Bank (Switzerland) Ltd. has deployed a trading app built on the Integral platform to expand mobile trading services to their institutional and corporate customers.

FICO, a leading analytics company, today announced that it has been named a category leader in the AI in Financial Services, 2019; Market and Vendor Landscape report from Chartis Research. FICO was named a category leader in both AI analytics and packaged AI applications.

A supplementary report, Vendor Analysis: FICO; Artificial Intelligence in Financial Services, 2019, takes a more detailed look at FICO’s rating and capabilities.