Anaplan, a leading platform provider driving a new age of connected planning, today announced strong customer growth in its Anaplan for Financial Services unit in the first half of 2017 and will preview the new Anaplan Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) product at its flagship 2017 financial services industry event, the European Financial Services Summit, held at M By Montcalm in London.

First Tech Federal Credit Union today announced the Zelle experience is now LIVE in its mobile banking app. 

Deutsche Börse Group has entered into a cooperation with The SmartStream Reference Data Utility (RDU). 

Pendo Systems, led by industry veteran Pamela Pecs Cytron, launches the new Pendo Machine Learning Platform (PMLP). With advanced machine learning capabilities at its core, the Pendo Machine Learning Platform is a unique data management and intelligence platform, providing exploration, discovery and analysis capabilities across multiple, disparate sources of unstructured data. PMLP is already in use within two global sell-side firms.

Abu Dhabi Global Market, the International Financial Centre in Abu Dhabi, today marked a new partnership with Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank (ADIB), a leading financial institution, to seek opportunities to collaborate and consult on initiatives to promote the growth and development of the FinTech ecosystem in Abu Dhabi and the UAE.

Startupbootcamp today announced the launch of its new InsurTech Accelerator in Hartford, designed specifically to rapidly scale insurance-focused technology startups.

Keeper Security, Inc., the world’s leading password manager and secure digital vault, today announced the results of UK and North Amerstudy analyzing the state of cybersecurity in small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). Sponsored by Keeper Security and conducted by the Ponemon Institute, the 2017 State of SMB Cybersecurity Report involved more than 1000 IT professionals and found that 54% of respondents said negligent employees were the root cause of a data breach.

Around the world, stress levels in the workplace are escalating. Robert Half’s global research of CFOs found that three in four anticipate that stress levels will increase to some degree in their department over the next three years. In UK, this figure rises slightly to 78%. 

My good friend Slava of Life.SREDA has just written a book called The First Fintech Bank’s Arrival. You can buy it for 9,99$ on Amazon or download for free on 

Determine, Inc., the pioneering leader in global Source-to-Pay and Enterprise Contract Lifecycle Management (ECLM) Cloud Platform solutions, announced today that Gérard Dahan has been named to the newly created position of Chief Marketing Officer and Senior Vice President of EMEA.