Ebury, one of the fastest growing fintechs for corporate cross-border payments and growth lending, today announced its collaboration with SWIFT gpi, which allows corporations to monitor and view payments globally in real-time. 

Eazy Financial Services B.S.C., a Bahraini financial technology company focusing on providing innovative technology solutions to financial institutions, will introduce the region’s first Biometric Payment Network powered by NCR Corporation (NYSE: NCR), a global leader in omni-channel solutions, that will allow consumers to register their fingerprint through their participating bank and then use that at any device (ATM or POS) to initiate a transaction rather than using a card.

SAP SE today announced that registration is available for its first-ever global digital innovation conference, SAP Leonardo Live.

The first new UK clearing bank in more than 250 years, ClearBank, has become a member of Bacs Payment Schemes Ltd (Bacs), the company behind Direct Debit and Bacs Direct Credit, taking membership up to 17 leading financial institutions.

Alternative data providers see huge potential in providing their data to discretionary asset managers who are losing assets to quantitative and systematic funds.

As active managers trail the performance of passive index funds and exchange-traded funds (ETFs), discretionary fund managers are scrambling to consume big data analytics into their decision making process.

Gemalto (Euronext NL0000400653), the world leader in digital security, was selected by KNET, Kuwait's national Shared Electronic Banking Service Company, and jointly owned by 11 Kuwait's banking institutions, to supply its Confirm Authentication Server.  Gemalto's solution generates One-Time-Passwords for online authentication, enabling millions of safe eTransactions in the country via the KNET e-payment gateway and delivering a step change in fraud protection. The secure platform is highly customizable and it can support a wide range of authentication and signing methods.

Pegasystems Inc. (NASDAQ: PEGA), the software company empowering customer engagement at the world’s leading enterprises, today announced an initiative to raise funds for Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C), a program of the Entertainment Industry Foundation, a 501(c)(3) charitable organization, dedicated to accelerating the pace of groundbreaking cancer research to get new therapies and treatments

Janus Capital Group Inc. and Henderson Group plc today announce the completion of an all-stock merger of equals to form Janus Henderson Group plc (Janus Henderson).  Concurrent with Henderson Group plc's  delisting from the London Stock Exchange, today Janus Henderson lists its shares on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "JHG" (NYSE:JHG). 

• How leveraging digital technologies can help financial institutions to gain competitive edge
• What is the role of customer-centricity in the digital transformation process
• How financial institutions and banks can gain agility to innovate and transform faster

• How leveraging digital technologies can help financial institutions to gain competitive edge
• What is the role of customer-centricity in the digital transformation process
• How financial institutions and banks can gain agility to innovate and transform faster

Peta AI named Sumitomo Mitsui Trust of Tokyo, Cathay Financial of Taiwan, and Charles Schwab of San Francisco as the top three least exposed to cyber threat companies in financial services.

As a whole, this ranking is one of the more difficult to secure. Firstly, by their nature, large, global corporations are operating across many geographies and frequently acquiring and selling companies. This limits the ability to generate a proper security situation overview, especially for the company’s IT personnel themselves.