SWIFT is launching a Business Intelligence gpi Observer Analytics tool, a new resource for gpi banks to gain more comprehensive business insights into their gpi traffic flows.  

The unique market and competitive analysis that gpi Observer Analytics provides will allow financial institutions to act on reliable and fact-based information to understand the current itinerary and speed of their payment instructions.

Kamakura Corporation reported today that Taipei-based E.Sun Commercial Bank has signed an agreement to implement Kamakura's suite of solutions for asset and liability management (ALM), interest rate risk and liquidity management, and interest rate risk in the banking book (IRRBB), as well as managing its liquidity coverage ratio (LCR) and net stable funding ratio (NSFR) in accordance with Basel III regulations. E.Sun selected Kamakura's system after a comprehensive evaluation of available options.

TEMCO, Korean startup preparing supply chain based on bitcoin (RSK), said it has successfully secured institutional investment from "Korea Investment Partners" (KIP), the foremost leading venture capital of Korea. KIP has been investing in growing billion-dollar companies such as: Naver, Kakao, Korbit, DoubleU Games, Bithumb and now TEMCO. KIP will serve as one of the key business partners in TEMCO's exponential growth.

Rubrik, the Cloud Data Management company, today announced it has been selected by the Scottish Government's Agriculture and Rural Economy (ARE) Directorate to protect and manage its mission critical data. Rubrik is delivering a scalable and centralized data management solution for backup, disaster recovery and archival, allowing ARE to easily and reliably demonstrate security compliance. 

Finastra today announced that Torsten Pull has joined the company as General Manager for Corporate Banking. Torsten brings over 19 years’ experience in global transaction banking, having held a range of senior leadership positions at Deutsche Bank. At Finastra he will take charge of all corporate banking products and solutions, covering lending, trade, supply chain finance, cash management and corporate channels.

Sberbank has launched a pilot project that involves reviewing loan applications without proof of income documents. 

The Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA), the global standards organization driving the adoption of Enterprise Ethereum, and Hyperledger, The Linux Foundation open source collaborative effort advancing cross-industry blockchain technologies, today jointly announced they have become Associate Members, respectively, within each other’s organization. 

VSoft Corporation, a global provider of information and technology solutions for financial institutions, announced that Warner Robins, Georgia-based Robins Financial Credit Union with more than $2.4 billion in assets has selected its OnView^TM Branch Remittance to simplify remittance transfers.

LastPass by LogMeIn, a leader in password management, today released the first annual, “2018 Global Password Security Report,” revealing true password behaviours in the workplace and creating a benchmark that businesses can use to measure progress when investing in password security tools.