This time Howard Berg, Senior Vice President of Gemalto shared with Financial IT his insights on the importance of biometrics in payments and what value can it add to merchants and consumers at FinTech Connect Live 2017.

What was the most exciting topic at Fintech Connect Live this year?

Cybersecurity company Nixu has grown in recent years in accordance with its growth vision to become a go-to-partner in cybersecurity services for companies headquartered in Northern Europe and the best place to work for cybersecurity professionals. Following its strategy, Nixu has grown to be over 300 person strong with offices in Finland, Sweden, Netherlands, USA and Romania.

Financial IT interviews Felix Bradshaw, Marketing and Communications Consultant of Traydstream at FinTech Connect Live 2017

TransferTo, a global Cross-Border Mobile Payments Network, have entered into strategic cooperation with Cellum, a leading multinational mobile wallet provider based in Europe, to offer international money transfer services to their partners via TransferTo’s single connection to over 1,500 companies worldwide.

Industry-leading independent advisor platform Kestra Financial, Inc. (Kestra Financial) has appointed Michelle Barry as the new President of H. Beck, Inc.

“With the backing of an industry leader in advisor technology and practice management solutions like Kestra Financial, H. Beck is well-positioned to create an optimal environment for advisors to 

Kestra Financial closed its acquisition of national independent financial advisor platform H. Beck in December 2017.

Contineo, Asia’s largest messaging network and data provider for structured products, announced today that SIX had joined the firm’s consortium as a strategic partner and investor.

HashChain Technology Inc. (“HashChain” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce that it has received final approval for listing on the TSX Venture Exchange (“TSXV”).

The common shares of HashChain will commence trading on the TSXV effective Monday, December 18, 2017 under the symbol “KASH”. 

FlexTrade (@FlexTrade) today announced the expansion of its EMEA sales team with the hiring of a new Multi-Asset Sales Director, Manuela Bauer. The expansion of the team comes at the end of a successful year of cross-asset innovation for the business.

The BFSI industry has been in the center of disruptive changes in recent years, and they are poised for another transformative year in 2018; especially, on their customer engagement front. The industry will leave behind traditional banking methods and go on to embrace digital transformation. Successful banks will realign their strategy and invest in technology that can automate processes and drive more meaningful conversations with tech-savvy customers.

Here is a forecast of trends that are likely see to an early adoption in 2018 to strengthen customer experience.