Avaloq, an international fintech providing services and digital solutions to banks and wealth managers, has become a founding partner of FinTech Scotland, a newly-established company tasked with promoting Scotland as a global fintech hub. Avaloq has had a significant presence in Scotland since 2012, with Edinburgh being home to one of its global Research & Development Centres.

Waves, a leading blockchain-based platform, today announced the launch of its new payment gateway framework for the Waves ecosystem. 

In nature, change is constant and inevitable. It is also slow and mainly evolutionary. Everything looks logical, guided by the scientific laws of physics, chemistry and biology. We are comfortable with changes that we can measure and feel that we are in full control, through elegant mathematical modeling and good enough approximations. The world of macro physics is full of order and is guided by clear scientific standards.

Peer-to-peer currency exchange platform WeSwap can now be used in ANY currency, anywhere in the world – marking the latest launch in a series of 2018 rollouts that help travellers get the most out of their holiday money. 

Japan Exchange Regulation ("JPX-R") and Tokyo Stock Exchange, Inc. ("TSE") decided to apply artificial intelligence (AI) to market surveillance operations to detect such misconduct as market manipulation. 

Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has launched a cloud-based data analytics utility to help U.S. banks improve and manage their risk-management and other activities more efficiently and cost-effectively than they could do on their own. 

CIOs of major banks and financial institutions are today facing a task equivalent to the feeding of the five thousand. While IT systems in the past have always grown, it was comparable to making one casserole for four people stretch to six when two uninvited guests showed up for dinner. Now hundreds of people are coming for food, all day, every day, and they all want different meals, at different times of the day.

UK importers lost an average 12% in profits since the EU Referendum as a result of Sterling depreciation, according to new research* from Western Union as the countdown begins on a year to Britain’s exit from the EU on 29 March 2019.  The figures are part of the global payments specialist’s new FX Barometer, a special quarterly analysis of FX trends andinsights to help businesses and their advisors derive more value from their international trading and foreign exchange (FX) payments strategy.

FinancialForce, the leading cloud ERP vendor on the Salesforce Platform, published its State of Finance report today.

Blue Prism (AIM:PRSM), provider of the world's most successful digital workforce, today announced a new offering that features "out of the box" API integrations with AWS, Google, IBM and Microsoft to enable operational AI (Artificial Intelligence) at scale.