Silicon Valley analytic software firm FICO has been awarded eight new patents related to cybersecurity and advanced analytics. FICO now holds 173 US and foreign patents, and has 91 pending patent applications.

Barclaycard, accountable for almost half of credit and debit card transactions in the UK, will keep on providing payment solutions to Transport for London (TfL) for the coming seven years, with a possibility to extend for a further three years. Over twenty years TfL and Barclaycard work together to transform travel payments across the nation`s capital city. Faster, easier and safer travel across London has been facilitated by the full roll-out of contactless payments on TfL in September 2014. 

Personal Financial Management (PFM) has evolved greatly since its birth in the early eighties. Originally developed to bring money management into what was then a widespread technological shift to the nascent personal computer age, PFM has since become a sophisticated means of managing your money.

But in its current “visible” guise, PFM is not nearly as innovative as it can be, and it is the “invisible” idea of PFM that is set to overhaul banking as we know it.

We are already entering the fourth-generation internet, the internet of things, but it won’t really take off until the next decade, the 2020s.  Sure, we have self-driving Teslas and Nest home appliances, along with Samsung’s Smart Things, but it’s not mainstream yet.  For example, none of my friends has a self-driving car yet.

Financial IT speaks to Alex Kwiatkowski, Senior Strategist of Misys at Finovate Europe 2017

Financial IT speaks to Yosi Dahan, CEO of Configo at Finovate Europe 2017

Exchange Bank is pleased to announce that Antonio Rosales joins the team as a Residential Mortgage Loan consultant. Exchange Bank, headquartered in Sonoma County is a premier community bank that provides a wide range of personal, commercial and trust and investment services. Antonio’s primary role is to support home loan services and facilitate the lending experience for Hispanic population.   

Coupa Software, a leading force in cloud-based spend management, today declared that Gartner, Inc. has included Coupa in the February 2017 Gartner Magic Quadrant (GMQ) for Strategic Sourcing Suites.


According to the Gartner’s report, Coupa was evaluated against 13 other vendors in the market. Four modules such as spend analysis, e-sourcing, contract management and supply base management were examined.