As service management organisations face greater demands to improve customer service, increase first-time fix rates and cut costs, many are evaluating evolving machine-to-machine (M2M) technologies to help them meet these challenges.

Path Solutions, the global Islamic banking software group announced that Kenya-based National Bank successfully went live on April 27th 2015 with iMAL Islamic core banking system for its Islamic window named National Amanah. 

 ICICI Bank, India’s largest private sector bank, announced the launch of voice recognition service which authenticates customers based on their speech patterns and allows them to execute banking transactions through the Bank’s call centre in a quick, secure and convenient manner.

Financial advisers are regarded as having a key role to play in stopping people making costly errors when it comes to decisions about their pensions, according to a new survey by Intelliflo.

Thomson Reuters, the world's leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals, and SimCorp – a leading provider of investment management solutions and services for the global financial industry – today announced the installation of a dedicated adapter enabling portfolio managers to access DataScope Select pricing and reference data through the SimCorp Dimension software platform.

eLong, Inc. (Nasdaq: LONG), a leading online travel company in China (the "Company" or "eLong"), today announced the sale by Expedia, Inc.

PrivateBancorp, Inc. (NASDAQ: PVTB) today announced that its stockholders have approved all proposals at the 2015 annual meeting.

PrivateBancorp stockholders approved the following proposals:

McObject’s exclusive distributor for the financial markets in the UK and Europe, is raising investment through Crowdcube, the UK’s largest Crowd Funding site. www.crowdcube.com/MCOEurope to fund growth and expansion.

“In the third week of September 2014, thousands of people organised themselves into neat lines that snaked along the city blocks of New York, Seattle, and London. Sleeping in cardboard boxes, or keeping wakeful vigil through the night, they were participants in a biennial ritual”. This description written in The Atlantic , was not, as you might think, a description of some religious ritual or of the public reaction to the latest One Direction album.