The stage is set for this holiday season to be one for the records, with ecommerce sales alone forecasted to be up 104 percent compared to five years ago, according to Mastercard Spending Pulse.  With this, it’s no surprise that this holiday will see the trend toward digital payments continue as consumers look for the most convenient ways to check off their holiday to-do lists.

TIBCO Software Inc., a global leader in integration, API management, and analytics, today announced the general availability of TIBCO® Data Virtualization 8at the AWS re:Invent 2018 conference in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Ascension Ventures, the London-based investment firm, today announced a funding round, which will see the addition of 14 new Venture Partners. The group strengthens Ascension’s core belief in entrepreneurs investing in entrepreneurs, bringing in active UK and US investors with a number of them already successfully-exited entrepreneurs.

The internet scored a win after an FBI-led takedown disrupted a massive, multiyear scam that saw cyber criminals use botnets to manipulate internet traffic from 1.7 million IP addresses and generate nearly 30 million dollars in fraudulent ad revenue. F-Secure supported the takedown operation by providing threat intelligence on the scam’s malware campaigns and botnets.  

CloudMargin, creator of the world’s first and only collateral and margin management solution native to the cloud, announced today that its platform has been named Collateral Management and Optimisation Product of the Year at the Risk.net Markets Technology Awards 2019.

Pelican, a global provider of AI-powered payments and financial crime compliance systems for banks and corporates, has strengthened its compliance management team with the appointment of Byron McKinney as Trade Finance Compliance Product Manager, based in Pelican’s London headquarters.

Agorai, a global platform which provides an inventory of turnkey software solutions, technology, and data needed for any company to join the AI economy, today announced that Neuramatix, a provider of artificial intelligence tools powered by a proprietary neural engine called NeuraBASE, is joining the Agorai AI marketplace.   

QuantaVerse, the first in the market with artificial intelligence (AI) solutions purpose-built for identifying financial crimes, today announced it has signed an agreement with Cathay General Bancorp, a holdin

Nordea Corporate & Investment Banking (C&IB) was chosen as the best corporate bank among large Nordic corporates with an all-time high customer satisfaction score in the 2018 Prospera survey. In both Finland and Denmark, Nordea was ranked as number one among peers, with all-time high customer satisfaction scores.

CLS today announces that CLSNet, a standardized, automated bilateral payment netting service for over 120 currencies operating on a distributed ledger technology (DLT) platform, is now live with Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. Six additional participants from North America, Europe and Asia, including Bank of China (Hong Kong), have committed to joining the service, with a steady onboarding of several other market participants planned in the next few months.