VST Enterprises, the Manchester-based technology company behind award-winning scannable symbol technology, VCode® today announces the appointment of former KPMG Partner John Hughes as Chairman. 

 Trifacta, the global leader in data wrangling, today announced that strong growth in Europe has seen the company gain a substantial foothold in Europe’s financial services industry.

OT (Oberthur Technologies), a leading global provider of embedded security software products, services and solutions, today announced its partnership with AF Payments Inc. (AFPI) to provide multi-purpose smart cards in the Philippines to allow end-users to have one single card to commute and pay in Manila.

Delta Financial Systems (‘Delta’), the leading pensions and retirement administration technology provider, has announced it has appointed John Watson as its new Chief Financial Officer.

Following the appointment of Mike Robins, previously Head of UK at 3i plc, as Chairman of Delta in December 2015, John’s recruitment represents a key addition to Delta’s business expansion plans and the accelerated delivery of its new Platinum~Pro technology platform. John will be responsible for driving Delta’s financial strategy as well as all areas of finance, HR and operations.

 Matica Technologies AG, a worldwide leading vendor for financial and secure ID card issuance personalization announces its latest innovation: the XID9x00e Series. This new series is a modular, heavy-duty retransfer card issuance solution based on the proven XID retransfer printer (300dpi and 600dpi) but further combines a newly developed card feeder and encoder module.

It is ideal for government agencies and service bureaus for low to mid-volume ID card printing, de-centralized card production as well as financial institutions.

In 2016, we are subject to near constant headlines detailing the latest big data breach or hacking scandal. Many of us probably think we have a pretty good handle on the different types of security risks that can threaten our businesses. But the reality may be a little different. 

The introduction of new technologies, the growth of cloud computing and changing employee working practices have all opened the door to a raft of new security vulnerabilities – often without us realising it.

Bank of Jordan has chosen Wolters Kluwer’s OneSumX to provide its risk software after a competitive tender process.  The bank has specifically signed up to use OneSumX for Risk to manage its Liquidity Risk and Asset and Liability Management (ALM)requirements.

Goldman Sachs, Santander and now Morgan Stanley’s drop out from the R3 consortium has led to a flurry of speculation about the future of the research group. Consortium aside, the crux of the issue is not to do with the interest in or potential of blockchain technology, but to do with the commercials of the business model. It’s not yet clear how this is going to work, other than that the banks are adamant that they are not going to create another commercial entity that can hold them over a barrel when it comes to operating fees.

Payment Institute CM Payments has been licenced by De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB) for the execution of payment services. As a result, CM Payments is now an official Payment Institution operating under the supervision of DNB and the first mobile-focussed Payments Institute with a DNB license.