Data-driven marketing and loyalty analytics company Aimia has turned to software solutions from SAS Canada, the leader in analytics, to power its advanced data analytics and modelling operations in Canada.

Aimia partners with companies to help generate, collect and analyze customer data and build actionable insights, through its own coalition loyalty programs such as Aeroplan, Canada's premier coalition loyalty program, through provision of loyalty strategy, program development, implementation and management services; and through its analytics and insights business.  

Workiva. creator of the Wdesk cloud-based productivity platform for enterprises, today announced that a large life reinsurance company uses Wdesk to improve collaboration, control and transparency throughout its global Enterprise Risk Management processes.

The reinsurance company's core products and services face a wide range of inherent risks, so Enterprise Risk Management is critical to their success.

 SS&C Technologies Holdings, announced the successful go-live implementation of Global Wealth Platform™ ("GWP"), the next evolution of investment platforms, at Smead Capital Management ("Smead"). GWP is a comprehensive, cloud-based wealth and institutional asset management platform designed for high-end private wealth managers and institutional asset managers with complex operational requirements.

Intellect GTB, the organisation behind the world’s first comprehensive global transaction banking solution, has appointed Mikael Estvall to the role of Senior Business Development Manager, Nordics & Baltics.

Mikael joins iGTB from Misys, where he was Nordic & Baltic Sales Manager. At Intellect he will oversee iGTB’s operations throughout Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Mikael will be based out of Stockholm, Sweden and would be reporting to Mark Wilson, Business Head, Europe.

Capital One announced the launch of Spark 401k, providing low-cost, all-ETF 401(k) plans designed to empower business owners and their employees to invest for the future. Spark 401k is the latest addition to Capital One's small business solutions suite, which includes Spark Business' award-winning credit cards, best-in-class banking products, and payments and e-commerce tools. 

KeyBank has added Masterpass by Mastercard to its mobile payments capabilities in response to steadily growing client mobile payment use.

"We know our clients want to be able to choose the banking product that best fits their individual need, and mobile payments is no exception," said Jason Rudman, director of KeyBank Consumer Payments and Digital Banking. "Whether clients prefer to pay via tap, dip or swipe, we want to be our clients' primary payment provider as they determine how they want to make payments. We are excited to offer Masterpass to our clients."

Technical body, EMVCo, now provides formal industry approval to confirm that contactless mobile payment-enabled devices canoperate seamlessly with EMV® Level 1* approved payment acceptance terminals. The new approval process incorporates Level 1 tests traditionally managed by the individual payment systems, bringing efficiencies to the process and reducing time to market.

EMV Contactless Mobile Payment Type Approval covers both secure element (SE) and host card emulation (HCE) technologies. This updated Level 1 testing and approval includes:

Custom apps have the potential to help teams and businesses become more productive, by improving inefficient processes internally and reducing scattered information. Given the current trends, android and ios app development will provide businesses with a competitive advantage, increase sales and customer loyalty to the brand.

 Red Deer, a new London-based FinTech company, is pleased to announce the appointment of Stefano Vaccino as Chief Product Officer and Henry Price as Chief Commercial Officer.

Stefano joins Red Deer from Algomi, where he was Chief Product Officer and a member of the executive team. Prior to this he co-founded the design company OltreDesign as well as spending 6 years as an Executive Director at Goldman Sachs. At Red Deer he will oversee product strategy and manage the entire development prioritisation process.

Northern Trust and SCORPEO today announce that they have entered into an agreement to use SCORPEO’s services to provide an innovative historical corporate actions reporting service, designed to help investors realize the full value in corporate actions.