GFT, the global provider of advisory, business consulting, IT and software services to the financial sector, has announced a collaboration with Lombard Risk, the leading vendor of enterprise collateral management solutions.

Leading cyber security software specialist ZoneFox today launches a new machine learning based solution that monitors business critical data flow and user behaviour to spot abnormal usage patterns and combat insider threats called ZoneFox Augmented Intelligence (AI).

Spire Payments, a leader in payment technology and solutions, will be launching its SPx1, a next generation SmartPOS device, and its ‘Converge’ payment software framework at TRUSTECH 2016 in Cannes, France. 

The SPx1 SmartPOS is a milestone in the evolution of payment devices. Seamlessly running multiple applications, this EMV and PCI approved Android device offers an enriched consumer/merchant interaction point akin to a tablet or smart mobile device thanks to its 5.5 inch fully tactile touch screen and its real-time application download capability.

BioCatch, the global leader in behavioural biometrics announced today the successful trial of its technology at NatWest. NatWest is one of the largest banks in the UK and serves over 14 million customers. The BioCatch technology has been deployed at the Bank since the start of 2016 within Coutts and with some business customers and continues to successfully prevent online fraud attempts, helping to protect customers. The next step of the plan is to pilot the technology with NatWest personal banking customers later in 2017.

At a celebratory luncheon today for Treasury Today Asia magazine’s 2016 Adam Smith Awards Asia, Prudential Corporation Asia was highly commended for Best SWIFT Solution, using the bank connectivity service of Reval, a cloud-based platform for treasury and risk management. Prudential Asia’s Hong Kong-based treasury team leveraged the straight-through processing within Reval to connect to Fides, a third-party SWIFT service bureau.

With Black Friday fast approaching and marking the start of the busiest shopping period of the year, new research from Barclaycard has revealed that frustrated consumers are turning their backs on the high street. As a result, retailers are facing growing pressure to improve their in-store experience, or risk losing out on sales.

We are in uncertain times, again. Which means that exposure to trade credit risk is a concern for business leaders no matter how large or small the company. The aim is to maintain a balance between the opportunities of commerce and the dangers of a payment default or bad debt.  It doesn’t take much to upset that balance, as we can see from the atmosphere of doubt since the results of the EU Referendum in June were announced.

Here in Chicago, we had a truly historic last two weeks – the Cubs won the World Series for the first time in 108 years and we as a nation elected a man to the Presidency that appears to be the most pro-business candidate in decades.  With two landmark events stacked just 7 short days apart, I couldn’t help it … I found myself feeling nostalgic. 

Cambridge is pleased to announce Chris Jenkins has joined the firm as Vice President of Practice Management. In this role, he will lead all aspects of the Practice Management department, including practice management coaching and consulting, technology consulting, business efficiency consulting, and succession planning.