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State Street Announces New Partnership With iCapital Network

State Street Corporation (NYSE: STT) today announced it has entered into a new partnership with iCapital Network[1], the financial technology platform setting the industry standard for delivering access and efficiency in alternative investing.

Thursday, January 23, 2020 - 19:51
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Three ways to win shoppers during Chinese New Year (and beyond)

For us in the West, New Year feels like a distant memory. But, while we’re in the midst of ‘Dry Veganuary’, celebrations in China are just about to kick off.

Thursday, January 23, 2020 - 19:40
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Financial IT
Market Logic and Visa Win 2020 BIG Innovation Award

Market Logic announced that Visa & Market Logic have been named a winner in the 2020 BIG Innovation Awards presented by the Business Intelligence Group.

Thursday, January 23, 2020 - 19:36
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Financial IT
SatchelPay: financial operations made simple

Thursday, January 23, 2020 - 19:00
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EMQ Opens Gateway to China
EMQ Opens Gateway to China

EMQ, a global financial settlement network today announced that customers from around the world can make secure and reliable cross-border money transfers to their family or friends leveraging the company’s extensive real-time pay-out network.

Thursday, January 23, 2020 - 12:56
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Financial IT
Persons With Significant Control: PSCs
Thursday, January 23, 2020 - 12:51
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Financial IT
LIBOR to survive the RFRs

Neither IBORs nor RFRs; firms should ready up to work with both types of benchmarks and reference rates for the foreseeable future.  The quantitative finance focused publications of 2019 have highlighted that replacing forward looking term rates (IBORs) with convexity-adjusted overnight rates compounded in arrears (RFRs) could lead to discrepancies with actual market conditions, liquidity issues, or even result in the fragmentation of benchmark rates moving forward. 

Thursday, January 23, 2020 - 12:34
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Financial IT
Intel Examines Whether AI Can Recognise Faces Using Thermal Imaging
Intel

Researchers from Intel have published a study examining whether AI can recognise people’s faces using thermal imaging.

Thermal imaging is often used to protect privacy because it obscures personally identifying details such as eye colour. In some places, like medical facilities, it’s often compulsory to use images which obscure such details.

AI is opening up many new possibilities so Intel’s researchers set out to determine whether thermal imaging still offers a high degree of privacy.

Intel’s team used two sets of data sets:

Thursday, January 23, 2020 - 12:11
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Financial IT
Monzo and Starling Among Account Switching Winners
Monzo and Starling

Just five UK banks, two of them challengers, managed a net gain of customers in the third quarter of 2019, according to figures from the Current Account Switch Service.

Nationwide Building Society continues to have the largest net switching gain among the Current Account Switch Service’s 49 participant, putting on 25,355 customers in the quarter. Digital challenger Monzo gained 21,576, HSBC 17,204, Starling 7,075 and tiny ethical player Triodos 409.

In contrast, Halifax saw the biggest net loss, shedding 15,714, with NatWest losing 9,885 and Lloyds 8,076.

Thursday, January 23, 2020 - 12:05
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Financial IT
F-Secure UK awarded grant to research autonomous vehicle network security

Cyber security provider F-Secure has won a £25,000 grant to research the security of connected and autonomous vehicle (CAV) networks. The research will leverage F-Secure Consulting’s expertise in securing critical national infrastructure to help the company contribute to the integrity and trustworthiness of the emerging CAV ecosystem.

Thursday, January 23, 2020 - 12:01
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