• 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. 

OCBC Bank has launched its first standalone mobile payments app which makes QR code cashless payments available at close to 2,500 NETS terminals. 

Expanding on yesterday’s discussion of how MNOs are sweeping up business for the underbanked and unbanked, Igor Pesin of Life.SREDA posted a lovely update giving even more detail.  Here is how he saw things …

Financial technology provider IRESS and ITG, a leading agency broker and financial technology firm, today announced a faster and more comprehensive analysis of trading costs for mutual clients. 

Visa today announced upcoming enhancements to its Verified by Visa service, a global solution designed to make online purchases more secure by helping ensure payments are made by the rightful owner of the Visa account. 

Chubb today announced the appointment of Kyle Bryant to the newly-created role of Regional Cyber Risk Manager, Europe.

In his new role, Kyle will bring together Chubb's dedicated local cyber risk expertise across its European region into a single practice. This will ensure a consistent proposition for Chubb's local broker partners and clients while delivering enhanced insight and support to them from across the wider region.

Barclaycard has begun trialling a brand new payment concept that streamlines the way consumers buy low-value goods by allowing them to scan and pay for their shopping using their smartphone, without the need to visit a physical checkout.

Grab+Go transforms a smartphone into a ‘pocket checkout’, allowing users to simply scan the items they want to buy as they pick them and then complete their purchase with a single click and walk out of a store.

Fiserv, Inc., a leading global provider of financial services technology solutions, today announced that Bank of Sydney will work with Fiserv to provide its consumer and small business customers with enhanced digital banking capabilities.