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Switzerland`s Valiant Bank has chosen Backbase, the leader in omni-channel digital banking solutions, to launch its new next-generation customer engagement platform. Valient Bank is an independent bank for retail clients. It operates across 85 branches in Switzerland and serves around 380,000 customers.  

TSYS  has expanded its footprint in Qatar, as International Bank of Qatar (ibq), one of the oldest banks in Qatar founded in 1956, has signed an agreement  that licenses future-focused PRIME^SMpayment solutions platform of TSYS. 

Thomson Reuters has released Thomson Reuters Authenticator, a multi-factor authentication app (Apple and Android compatible). It provides user verification using two forms of identity at a minimum, ensuring firms and their clients better protection against cyber threats. 

AFFIN Bank Group successfully implemented Moody`s Analytics robust profit rate and liquidity risk management platform. In its aspiration to better manage large exposure risks and improve business decision making AFFIN Bank Group (“AFFIN”) has installed Analytics RiskAuthority™ and RiskConfidence™ Moody`s software platforms.

AFFIN Bank Implements Moody’s Analytics Software Solutions to Enhance Risk Management Capabilities

With the production of more than 4M cards, NID Security, the world leader in Display Card Manufacturing, appoints Niels-Hentrik to the position of CEO.

Niels-Henrik Andersen has more than 20 years experience in sales and management roles in the power card industry.

International fashion brand of affordable luxury offers for men and women, Reiss, announces the appointment of Christos Angelides as part of planned succession process.

Christos brings over 30 years multi-channel retail experience to Reiss including 28 years at Next where he served for 14 years on the Main Board as Group Product Director.  Most recently he served as President of Abercrombie and Fitch based in the US. 

In its endeavour to address the growing cyber-threat landscape, HID Global®, trusted identity solutions provider, announced that physical and IT security teams should work together closely. It is needed to develop a comprehensive strategy for tackling physical and cyber security threats. As increasing number of devices are designed to connect and share information, the physical security team needs to incorporate the IT team in their proposal, design, implementation discussions and decisions.

The value-added distributor, Hammer, and global deep storage vendor, Spectra Logic have entered into an EMEA-wide distribution agreement.  

The partnership will see Hammer adding Spectra Logic’s high-capacity workflow, tape and disk-based products to its portfolio and will allow Spectra Logic to strengthen its position in key backup and archive markets. By partnering with Hammer, Spectra will grow its enterprise-level reseller customer base.

Bigbank AS, one of Estonia’s largest banks, has selected Accuity to streamline its account and payments screening processes and help better identify financial crime risk, highlight potential sanctions breaches and flag potentially high-risk customers and politically exposed people (PEP).