How does one recognize and distinguish the serious innovation? What separates real innovators from those which aren’t so serious about it? The true innovators are actually able to maintain a discipline of innovation. For them it is a habit, the second nature, basically something they naturally keep doing day in and day out.

There is no prescribed formula for success here, but most of the organized innovation efforts go through similar and repeatable journeys, from seemingly chaotic and unorganized set of ideas, toward the clear value.

EastNets, a leading global provider of compliance and payments solutions for the financial services industry has announced the appointment of Luay Gadallah as the company’s new Chief Technology Officer. Luay will be responsible for overseeing the strategic direction of EastNets technology organization, as well as upholding the company’s technology position at the forefront of the industry.

Emirates Islamic, one of the leading Islamic financial institutions in the UAE, today announced that its 60 second online fund transfer service ‘QuickRemit’ is now available for remittances to Pakistan. 

Path Solutions, a global leader in Sharia-based technologies to the Islamic financial services industry, has announced that it has signed a strategic partnership agreement with Attijariwafa Bank Group in Morocco.

Under the terms of the agreement, Path Solutions will provide and implement its interest-free core banking platform iMAL across the 31 branches of Attijariwafa Bank participative subsidiary Bank Assafa, including Sharia-compliant financing, delivery channels and trade finance.

Khartoum, Sudan: The Agricultural Bank of Sudan, the first national Sudanese bank and is wholly owned by the Government, has gone live on  ICS BANKS ISLAMIC from

UK organisations are concerned about their abilities to keep pace with the persistent rise of new cyber security challenges. This follows new data from business continuity and disaster recovery provider, Databarracks, revealing only 56 per cent of UK firms believe they have sufficient cyber security skills in-house to deal with threats against their business.

Q2 Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:QTWO), a leading provider of secure, experience-driven digital banking solutions for community-focused financial institutions, has announced an agreement to acquire San Mateo, California-based Cloud Lending, Inc., a privately-held SaaS company that provides an integrated end-to-end lending and leasing platform.