After the Jakarta edition of World AI Show, Trescon hosted the MENA edition of the global AI conference on Monday. The show saw a high-level participation from 400+ global technology leaders and AI experts who came together to discuss emerging trends, intractable challenges and the future potentials of artificial intelligence in a post COVID-19 era.

Amid worldwide lockdowns and unprecedented social distancing measures, it’s safe to say the first half of 2020 has unfolded in an unexpected way.

Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com company, announced that HSBC Holdings plc has selected AWS as a key, long-term strategic cloud provider to drive their digital transformation and deliver new and personalised banking services. As part of a multi-year, global agreement, HSBC will make AWS technology available across the bank’s lines of business, starting with customer-facing applications and application modernisation in its Global Wealth & Personal Banking business.

Ziglu, the new cryptocurrency challenger, has launched an insurance programme for customers holding cryptocurrencies, providing greater security and peace of mind.

Each Ziglu customer’s cryptocurrency holdings are insured against cyber-crime up to a value of £50,000 at all times and held in a segregated account. The vast majority of customer assets are stored in offline ("cold") wallets, meaning they are not accessible via the internet and therefore at lower risk of theft. 

Many businesses moving their finance functions to shared service centre environments say that automation is critical to success. So why is it that so many have yet to implement automation successfully?

Leading UK anti-money-laundering (AML) firm SmartSearch is today launching operations in the USA.

Expansion into the US market follows a period of sustained growth that has seen the firm frequently named among the UK’s fastest-growing companies, and a leader in the increasingly important ‘RegTech’ sector.

Xignite, Inc., a provider of market data distribution

As more businesses across Scotland take the first steps on the road to recovery and prepare to open their doors on July 15th as part of Scottish Government’s route map, research from newly launched ‘Tyl’ has demonstrated the scale of the acceleration towards contactless payments.

The UK saw a steep jump in eCommerce sales in June 2020 — up 20 percent compared to June last year, the largest increase since the beginning of the Covid-19 lockdown restrictions, according to an analysis of hundreds of millions of transactions by global payments software company ACI Worldwide (NASDAQ:ACIW).

Onguard, the FinTech company dedicated to redefining the order-to-cash payment process, has announced the appointment of Andy Bass as New Business Development Manager as the company continues its UK expansion and exploits new opportunities in the region.