With the advent of the smartphone, and the rise of interconnected devices we’ve seen the creation of a world where practically everyone has instant online access 24/7.

In turn, we’ve seen rising demands from consumers for quick and easy access to their money at any time and on any device.

However, almost simultaneously we’ve seen consumers show greater concern about their digital security, especially in light of recent high profile data breaches.

MDOTM, a leading provider in quantitative investment advisory services to institutional investors, and Raiffeisen Capital Management, one of Austria’s largest fund managers, announce a new strategic partnership.

Thanks to this new initiative, the range of Raiffeisen Capital Management's sustainable funds will be used by MDOTM to offer to the market SRI investment solutions that benefit from the efficiency brought by AI technology in portfolio construction.

QuantHouse, the global provider of end-to-end systematic trading solutions including innovative market data services, algo trading platform and infrastructure products and part of Iress (IRE.ASX), today announced the launch of Historical Data on-Demand designed to dramatically speed up the research, development and backtesting phase of any trading strategy.

Horizon Software (Horizon), a leading provider of electronic trading solutions and algorithmic technology, and ULTUMUS, a provider of data services for index and ETF products, announced today they extended their partnership to enable the pricing, sourcing and trading of ETFs with a comprehensive dividend dataset integrated within the Horizon solution.

Towo Labs, a Swedish startup aimed at simplifying crypto self-custody, today announced a strategic investment from Xpring, Ripple’s developer initiative to build the internet of value. 

The investment will support Towo Labs’ development of hardware wallet firmware with support for all XRP Ledger (XRPL) transaction types and a trustless, non-custodial web interface to the XRP Ledger.

Enabling All XRPL Transaction Types on Hardware Wallets

Cyber security provider F-Secure has successfully completed its first-round of the MITRE ATT&CK™ evaluation. The test assesses vendors’ endpoint detection and response (EDR) solutions against techniques used by advanced persistent threat (APT) groups. It confirms that F-Secure’s capabilities to detect advanced threats are among the best in the industry.

Round one of the evaluation involved a scenario that pitted F-Secure’s EDR capabilities against an entire intrusion by APT3, a China-based Advanced Persistent Threat group.

Bottomline Technologies, a leading provider of financial technology that helps make business payments simple, smart and secure, today announced that Hargenant Group has selected a partnered service from Bottomline and Currencycloud for their cross-border payments.

Arkera, a leading AI-powered, human enhanced, intelligence platform for institutional and corporate clients, is attending the IMF Annual Meeting this week, following the launch of second-generation product, Atlas Live.

The IMF Annual Meeting is one of the most stimulating events for emerging markets, where Arkera will be meeting with policy makers, investors and economists connected with emerging markets.

Profile Software, an international financial solutions provider, announced today its recent wins and distinctions in reference to its platforms in international competitions. Particularly, Profile Software has been named as ‘One to Watch’ in Europe in a list of business excellence published by the European Business Awards, one of world’s largest and longest running business competitions.