Crossgate`s Crosscore platform is an API-based integration hub that easies deployment of multiple services that are generally complex for issuers to implement themselves.

Financial IT speaks with Michael Smida, Founder of Twisto Payments at Finovate Europe 2017 

Financial IT speaks to Danny Watkins, CEO and Founder of EarlyBird at Finovate Europe 2017 

The Board of Directors of Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC), a diversified, community-based financial services company with $1.9 trillion in assets, announced today about the election of Karen B. Peetz, retired president of The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation, and Ronald L. Sargent, retired chairman and chief executive officer of Staples, Inc., as new independent directors.

New business models are fostered by growth, competition, technology advances and changing stakeholder demands, according to the survey carried out by Frost & Sullivan's Visionary Innovation Group. CEOs in Asia overwhelmingly rank revenue growth as their top growth objective for the next five years following intense complexity, uncertainty and transformation of the economic landscape. However, the majority indicate that they are challenged by growth strategy implementation, growth strategy and vision congruence, and annual growth rate acceleration.

Financial IT: Kevin, can you give us some brief information about your background and role at IRIS?

Switzerland`s Valiant Bank has chosen Backbase, the leader in omni-channel digital banking solutions, to launch its new next-generation customer engagement platform. Valient Bank is an independent bank for retail clients. It operates across 85 branches in Switzerland and serves around 380,000 customers.  

TSYS  has expanded its footprint in Qatar, as International Bank of Qatar (ibq), one of the oldest banks in Qatar founded in 1956, has signed an agreement  that licenses future-focused PRIME^SMpayment solutions platform of TSYS. 

Thomson Reuters has released Thomson Reuters Authenticator, a multi-factor authentication app (Apple and Android compatible). It provides user verification using two forms of identity at a minimum, ensuring firms and their clients better protection against cyber threats. 

AFFIN Bank Group successfully implemented Moody`s Analytics robust profit rate and liquidity risk management platform. In its aspiration to better manage large exposure risks and improve business decision making AFFIN Bank Group (“AFFIN”) has installed Analytics RiskAuthority™ and RiskConfidence™ Moody`s software platforms.

AFFIN Bank Implements Moody’s Analytics Software Solutions to Enhance Risk Management Capabilities