International IoT research firm Parks Associates noted that nearly one-half of consumers in Western European broadband households are concerned that someone could get unauthorized access to the data from their smart products. Similarly, nearly one-half of consumers in U.S. broadband households rank data security and privacy issues as their greatest concern about connecting devices to the Internet.

Baker Hill, a leading provider of technology solutions for common loan origination, portfolio risk management, relationship management and smart data analytics, will be presenting its Baker Hill NextGen™ Analytics solution at American Banker’s BankAI conference, which takes place October 1

Gemalto (E, the world leader in digital security, announced the launch of the industry's first payment hardware security module (HSM) to include partitioning as an advanced security feature. This new capability allows financial services organizations to simplify cryptographic operations by using a single HSM to support dozens of security applications and protect sensitive payment information and transactions. 

Ralph Hamers, CEO of ING, will be presenting at the Bank of America Merrill Lynch 22nd Annual Financials CEO Conference in London.

The focus of his presentation will be on the progress of the ING Think Forward Strategy and how new digital developments support our ambition to build a globally scalable banking platform for our clients.  Ralph will also elaborate on how the introduction of an agile way of working in several markets is essential to stay competitive, satisfy increasing customer demands and supports ING in building stronger primary relationships with our customers.

Finance automation company V1 has been awarded the highly coveted Rockstar* partner status from Sage, taking it another step closer to driving greater automation in the accounting sector. Six years after a joint agreement was signed to introduce EDM for Sage X3, V1’s Purchase Invoice Automation (PIA) solution has been given the top partner ranking for Sage X3, held by just 12 Independent Software Vendors (ISV) globally.

Alipay, the world’s largest online and mobile payment platform, operated by Ant Financial Services Group (Ant Financial), has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Singapore Tourism Board (STB) to enhance Chinese tourists’ overall experience in Singapore. 

As part of the CLEAR online investigations suite, CLEAR ID Confirm leverages comprehensive, up-to-date public and proprietary data to enable organizations to complete identity verification tasks, including risk evaluation and business vetting. 

big xyt, the independent provider of high-volume, smart data and analytics capabilities, announced today that SIX Swiss Exchange has joined the xyt hub to provide high quality tick data to its trading participants, enabling them to develop, evaluate and backtest new trading and execution strategies while providing greater transparency over trading activity.

We are delighted to be joining AIM at such a pivotal time in the Company's development.  Alpha has enjoyed a period of solid investment under its current ownership by Dunedin and this placing and admission to AIM will allow Alpha to retain its strong employee and growth-oriented culture and to invest more readily in future expansion through the pay down of all existing debt facilities.

On October 11, Eddy Travia, CEO and Co-founder of the London-listed Coinsilium Group Limited, will speak at ICO Event London. He will tell about crowdsales from the investor’s perspective: how to identify promising ICOs and invest with minimal risk.