Fidessa group recently held its second annual buy-side client conference which brought together 70 senior executives from global asset management firms. Themed "Invested in the Future" the conference provided attendees with an opportunity to examine topics ranging from unbundling to block trading, and automation to post-trade.

Michael Heffner,  Global Capital Markets and Banking Industry Lead , Appian speaks about  digital transformation and  how the company helped First Republic Bank to transform it's banking platform.

TOC BIOMETRICS, the biometrics specialist company, presents its new TOC App at the Money 20/20 global event. The consent administrator system allows users to confirm or authorize with their fingerprint and smartphone to perform tasks such as online banking login, money transfers, payments, purchases, permits, electronic signatures and so on. Through a push message, the person can answer "I am/ I do" while placing their finger on the sensor of the smartphone.

 The results of a large-scale study of more than 24,000 consumers in 12 countries published today by Verint^®Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: VRNT), with support from Opinium Research LLC, and research and advisory firm IDC, identifies a tipping point between digital and traditional customer service.

 Cognizant (NASDAQ: CTSH) today announced that it has enabled Ohio-based KeyBank, one of the largest regional financial institutions in the U.S., to reimagine online and mobile banking by providing a more intuitive, personalized and simpler customer experience on a new digital platform.

KeyBank, the principal subsidiary of KeyCorp (NYSE: KEY), is the 13^th largest bank in the U.S, with operations in 32 markets, approximately 3 million customers and more than 400,000 daily digital banking transactions. 

BET Entertainment Technologies, a licensed online gambling company based in Portugal, has selected Accuity to boost its KYC (Know Your Customer) and AML (anti money laundering) compliance controls to help it meet new regulation imposed on the Portuguese gambling industry by the local regulator, the SRIJ (Serviços de Regulação e Inspeção de Jogos).  BET Entertainment Technologies worked with its partner SSP, a Portuguese company specializing in AML and fraud detection, to select and implement the Accuity solution from the Fircosoft portfolio.

Global Payments, a leading worldwide provider of payment technology services, is pleased to announce agreements with Better Business Bureaus across Canada, offering payment technology services to their more than 15 thousand Accredited Businesses.

Global Payments has signed referral agreements with Better Business Bureaus serving Mainland British Columbia, Southern Alberta and East Kootenay, Central and Northern Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Northwest Ontario, Western Ontario, Eastern and Northern Ontario and the Outaouais and the Atlantic Provinces.

The deregulation of UK financial markets, thanks to the ‘Big Bang’ 30 years ago, was a momentous occasion and arguably the most important moment in helping the City Of London to become Europe’s number one destination for fintech.”

The world’s financial infrastructure is collapsing. So they say.

It’s a theme that is oft-repeated. You only have to log on or open your newspaper and stories about problems in the banking world come thick and fast. Fraud, the spats about Brexit, looming financial disasters and misdeeds – it all comes rolling out, spiced up with rumour and gossip, colouring the public idea of the role of banks.