Global trade is an ever-shifting sea. The waves of growth go up and down, but one thing remains certain: both barriers and opportunities are always present.

Global trade tensions have been rising since 2018, and with tariffs on some widespread goods having a comeback in the last couple of years, international export/import activities face some challenges up ahead. According to projections of WTO’s experts in 2019, global trade growth is slowing down and whether it will rebound is a question of easing international trade tensions. 

Goldman Sachs is planning to slow down the growth of its online retail banking brand Marcus in the UK.

UK peer-to-peer lending outfit Zopa is set to secure £130 million in funding, enabling it to meet regulatory capital requirements for its foray into banking.

Scality, leader in software solutions for global data orchestration and distributed file and object storage, today announced that the company’s acclaimed RING™ software-defined storage solution was ranked with the highest score in the “Hybrid Cloud Storage” use case, and scored second highest in all other use cases in the Gartner Critical Capabilities for Object Storage report published on 25^th November 2019.

Keesing Technologies is happy to report that, together with trusted partner Risk Information Group (RIG), it has been able to implement AuthentiScan, its customer onboarding and identity proofing solution in over 96% of all physical bank branches in Norway. Furthermore, the solution is rapidly gaining ground in Sweden, Denmark and Finland.

David Goodwin, Head of Product and Marketing, Neonomics at MoneyLIVE Summit 2019, UK speaks about open banking concept and what role Neonomics plays in that equation.

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The financial sector is one that is particularly aware of the need to protect sensitive information and increasingly, this also includes reducing the risk of what has become known as ‘visual hacking’, also sometimes referred to as ‘shoulder-surfing’.  Put simply, this is the ability to view, even photograph, information that is on a person’s screen.