In February, the number of registered investors on the European P2P platform Robo.cash reached 10,000. Remarkably, last year the geographical distribution of its users changed significantly, due to a large influx of investors from Bulgaria, Spain, Italy and Portugal.

Financial IT caught up with Victor Fredung, CEO of Shufti Pro.

Financial IT: Could you please tell us more about Shufti Pro and your background?

Victor Fredung (VF): Shufti Pro is an AI-based identity verification services provider. Our KYC/KYB and AML screening solutions powered with biometric authentication enable businesses to screen their customers in real-time. Our solutions can deliver 98.67% accurate verification results within 15-60 seconds.

National Bank of Yemen (NBY), one of the largest commercial banks and a prominent contributor to the economic and social development in Yemen; has gone live with ICS BANKS Universal Banking Software from ICS Financial Systems Limited (ICSFS), the global software and services provider for banks and financial institutions, to grow its operations domestically and internationally.

Financial IT: Please tell us more about Airwallex and your background?

Wolters Kluwer’s Lien Solutions business has won four major accolades from Finance Monthly magazine. The awards, all decided by an independent editorial panel, recognize the company’s leadership, as well as its leading technology solutions. Finance Monthly is a global publication from the Universal Media stable, providing news, comment and analysis, distributed to more than 195,000 people each month.

FinTech breakthroughs, while they facilitate online financial transactions, are indicating an upsurge in the adoption of next-generation technologies, including artificial intelligence, data science, and machine learning, to fight financial crime and frauds. This is laying the groundwork for innovations in the financial risk management landscape, creating immense sales potential for financial crime and fraud management solutions in today’s finance industry.

Most people are other people,
Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions,
Their lives a mimicry,
Their passions a quotation!!!
                         -   Oscar Wilde

Nothing can sum up social life as beautifully as Oscar while did more than a century ago. We emulate similar behaviour at every social construct that we engage in. In our homes, neighbourhoods, offices and relations.

EquiLend, the global technology company for the securities finance, collateral and swaps industries, announced the addition of five new counterparties to its NGT securities finance trading platform: DZ Bank AG, E*Trade, Janney Montgomery Scott, Matsui Securities and TD Ameritrade.

NGT is EquiLend’s multi-asset class trading platform for the securities finance marketplace, on which more than 100 firms worldwide are now actively trading.