Up to 86% of chargebacks are likely caused by fraudulent actions from consumers, and claims have increased 41% over the last two years.

Mambu, the leading SaaS banking engine today launched Mambu Marketplace, a growing collection of trusted partners offering cloud-enabled best-of-breed apps, products and tools to help financial institutions build a holistic and agile digital banking architecture. 

Synechron, a global financial and technology consultancy, has been shortlisted across three areas for its innovative accomplishments this year, including Best Use of Mobile, Blockchain Project of the Year and Incubator or Investment Initiative of the Year at the 2018 FSTech awards held on 22^nd March 2018. Synechron’s nominations highlight the increasing importance on innovation for consumer-led, as well as business focused, financial technology and its role in leading these initiatives across various areas in financial services.

A global leader in online multi-asset trading services, OANDA is pleased to announce Warren Faleiro has joined the firm as Chief Technology Officer, based in Toronto. A 20-year industry veteran who has worked with some of the world’s most innovative companies, he will be responsible for driving OANDA’s global technology strategy while providing technical leadership across all areas of the business. Faleiro’s appointment further demonstrates OANDA’s ongoing commitment to driving innovation in the financial services arena.

Consumers finally have a chance to get the edge on ransomware gangs that have amassed billions of dollars in the past few years. 

ITRS has released a set of six fully-supported integrations to monitor key big data technologies used in financial services today including Kafka, Hadoop, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Cassandra and Elasticsearch. This means ITRS Geneos clients will now have the ability to troubleshoot, analyse and optimise the performance of applications running on a big data stack.