FutureTech Congress is one of the most important business summits in Central and Eastern Europe  addressing top trends in the fintech, insurtech and big data industries. The first edition of the congress will be held on 24th and 25th of May in Warsaw. During two days of debates experts from all over the world will discuss how digitalization, technology and business innovations are changing the financial services, insurance and data industry, in effect impacting the overall business landscape in Poland and the region.

IndusInd Bank has won the Celent Model Bank 2017 Global Award for Fraud Management and Cybersecurity for driving a unique initiative, namely how to leverage the investments in fraud management to pay for itself. In the innovation, IndusInd Bank not only implemented the real-time enterprise wide cross-channel fraud and AML management platform, but also began reusing in-memory data to offer simultaneous real-time cross-sell and upsell.

Mastercard today unveiled the next generation biometric card, combining chip technology with fingerprints to conveniently and safely verify the cardholder’s identity for in-store purchases.

South Africa is the first market to test the evolved technology, with two separate trials recently concluded with Pick n Pay, a leading supermarket retailer, and Absa Bank, a subsidiary of Barclays Africa.

Whilst convenient, very few people realise the potential flaws behind the use of biometric fingerprint scanning technology. Fingerprint readers can easily become compromised by the likes of dirt or due to the nature of fingerprints themselves, which can become altered through blisters, cuts or burns. All of which can be a hindrance for organisations and customers looking to include the authentication method as a single form of authentication. Rather, biometric methods should be used as an additional layer of authentication while making a credit card payment.

Today Smartkarma, the leader in designing online ecosystem for independent investment insight and analytics, announces research published from Mount Everest basecamp using the Smartkarma platform. Dr. Paul M.

Today Timico ,the Managed Cloud Service Provider (MCSP), has revealed the appointment of managed IT specialist, Neville Davis, to a new position as Non-executive Chairman.

An entrepreneurial business leader with over 20 years’ experience as a chief executive, including 12 years at a quoted company, Neville has a particularly strong track record in scaling and developing private-equity backed companies, having chaired and grown other tech businesses to in excess of £300 million turnover and 1500 employees.

Today Fidessa group plc revealed that its sell-side platform has been voted Best Order Management System at the 5th Annual Markets Media and Traders Magazine Markets Choice Awards.

With brokers facing ongoing pressures from the global regulatory agenda, the need to achieve efficiencies whilst containing costs and the increasing demands of their buy-side clients for exceptional levels of execution service, Fidessa's platform continues to prove compelling for firms of all sizes and across asset classes.

Today Growth Street, an alternative business finance platform, announces that more than 600 investors have now chosen to back fast growing, profitable SMEs, since it launched in late 2016.

The strength of the borrower portfolio, along with the innovative risk management approach, has led independent P2P rating service 4thWay to rank Growth Street as one of the lowest risk platforms in the market for individual investors seeking to lend directly to borrowers.

Today QuantHouse, the global provider of advanced trading solutions, announced that Metori Capital Management has selected QuantFACTORY to automate its trading portfolio.

QuantHouse provides end-to-end systematic trading solutions including QuantFEED, its ultra-low latency market data technologies, QuantFACTORY, its algo-trading development framework and QuantLINK, its proximity hosting and order routing services. QuantHouse helps trading venues, hedge funds, market makers, proprietary desks, brokers and sell-side firms achieve optimal trading performance.

Booking a hotel online? A couple of minutes.

Buying an intercontinental flight online? A few minutes.

Buying a wonderful pair of shoes online and getting them delivered to your front door? One day.

Opening a simple bank account online? Weeks! But only if you’re lucky and your bank allows you to open it digitally. Otherwise…