Ecrebo, the point of sale marketing specialist, whose clients include some of the UK’s largest retailers including M&S and Waitrose, continues its investment in new executive talent with the appointment of Hannah Lowry as CFO. Lowry has more than ten years’ financial experience with multinational organisations in Europe and the Middle East.

Mitek (NASDAQ: MITK, www.miteksystems.com), a global leader in mobile capture and identity verification software solutions, today announced that MoneYou, the fully-digital consumer banking subsidiary of ABN AMRO, is using its Mobile Verify® and 

Epos Now’s newest hardware innovation, POStoGO, is an exciting step in mobile point of sale technology. A fully mobile POS solution with best in class integrated payment technology, allows you to take payments on the move, with ease, accuracy and speed.

POStoGO provides everything required to trade in one box:

The surcharges currently being charged by some retailers and merchants on credit and debit card transactions do not reflect the true costs that merchants pay per transaction. A 3% charge on an international flight or holiday far exceeds the actual cost. However, a UK government ban on fees might sound like a win for consumer rights, but is likely to have the exact opposite effect.

South African market participants can now enjoy unprecedented automation and straight-through processing by leveraging newly available, integrated cloud-based technology to exchange tri-party SWIFT¹ messaging for collateral instructions, settlement and confirmations. CloudMargin, the multi-award winning creator of the world’s first web-based collateral and margin management solution, and Strate, the South African Central Securities Depository (CSD) and South Africa’s first Tri-Party Collateral Management Agent, today announced that they have just integrated their platforms.

Aeriandi, a leading provider of secure voice services and NICE, a global leader in cloud and on-premises enterprise software solutions, including advanced customer analytics, have announced a strategic partnership.  Under the terms of the partnership, Aeriandi’s customers will have access to an easy to implement speech analytics solution that can analyse both real-time and archived calls.

US prepaid card and P2P payment services provider Cascade Financial Technology Corp has signed a 3-year contract to power customer onboarding and KYC with 2^ndgeneration ID authentication and onboarding automation. AU10TIX Secure Customer onboarding (SCO) cloud service that already powers major players across financial services markets, is known not only to increase KYC robustness and fraud protection but also improve customer conversion success chances and operating efficiency. 

Banks have always held vast amounts of data inside their organisations but their ability to interpret and extract value from this commodity is something they have historically struggled to achieve. With new regulations and increased competition soon to hit the market, this is set to change.

An interview with Jacyn Heavens, founder of Epos Now.

Financial IT: Hello Jacyn, first of all, we would like to thank for this interview. Could you please tell us more about Epos Now and your background?

Kickstart Accelerator, one of Europe’s largest multi-corporate, zero-equity technology accelerators, has today announced its shortlist of 30 startups for its second cohort. The startups will take part in an 11-week programme, from 4 September to 17 November 2017, and will be divided into the four verticals based in Zurich – FinTech (10), Food (6), Smart Cities and Robotics (9) & Intelligent Systems (5).

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