BSI’s global centre of excellence for Cybersecurity and Information Resilience has been awarded the McAfee MPOWER Cloud Partner of the Year 2018. The accolade was announced at the recent MPOWER Cybersecurity Summit in Rome, Italy. 

The award is presented to the company that demonstrates delivery capability, opportunity building, the bringing of net new business (enterprise accounts) to McAfee and recognition of BSI’s cloud centre of excellence.

The European P2P platform Robo.cash has been recently joined by its first lending company in Southeast Asia Robocash Finance Corp. Now users of the platform have an opportunity to invest in the Philippine short-term consumer loans in EUR with an annual return of up to 12%.

ICS Financial Systems Limited (ICSFS), the global software and services provider for banks and financial institutions, today announced that Hammurabi Commercial Bank, a new established bank by the Central Bank of Iraq, has selected the multi-awards winning solution 

Wolters Kluwer’s Lien Solutions has won three notable industry awards, recognizing excellence and innovation. US Business News has named the company Lien Management Technology Provider of the Year, 2018, as parts of its Technology Elite awards series. Corporate Vision magazine, meanwhile, has named the company “Best for Lien Services, 2018,” with Lien Solutions also being recognized with a silver medal for Best New Product Feature of the Year in the 2018 Best In Biz awards.

Financial IT interview with Simon Hardie and Luke Griffiths

IronX is happy to welcome on its Advisory Board Dr Paolo Tasca, Executive Director of the Centre for Blockchain Technologies, and Tal Cohen, ex-CEO of Sirin Labs, which raised $157.8 million via its ICO. Both appointments coincide with IronX's recent IRX token sale extension, which is now running until January 15, 2019.

Path Solutions, the Fintech solution provider for Islamic finance, today announced that the International Development Bank for Investment and Finance (“IDB”) in Iraq has successfully completed the upgrade of its core banking system to the new Path Solutions’ core, digital platform and echannels of iMAL R14, as of 30^th September.

Nordea is launching Instant Reporting, a new Open Banking solution that enables corporate customers to access their own accounts and integrate real-time data with their own systems and processes. It is the first offering from Nordea that moves beyond legal requirements in PSD2 and turns Open Banking into a commercially viable product.

It seems like that cryptocurrencies are the greatest craze of the last decade. When Satoshi Nakamoto introduced the concept for the Bitcoin in 2009, many considered it an unrealistic concept. The skepticism that was spread around held many from making their first investment in Bitcoin. Things, however, are much more different now. In 2017, the popularity and value of this cryptocurrency literally skyrocketed.

The blockchain world is currently looking towards the European Commission (EC) as it takes prompt steps to embrace integration and implementation of trusted blockchain ecosystem. European countries such are Slovenia, Malta, Liechtenstein, France, and the Netherlands together with the European Blockchain Hub (EU BC HUB) are showcasing significant examples in the world on blockchain implementation, as well as demonstrating the key role of blockchain in realization of the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).