Proficio, a world-class managed security services provider (MSSP) delivering managed detection and response (MDR), proudly announced that they've received eleven top honors by several industry award outlets in the first quarter of 2018.

Peoples Trust Company of Saint Albans, USA, has selected Finastra to provide a single, end-to-end lending solution for commercial and consumer lending. Using Finastra’s Total Lending solution, which packages the power of the Fusion LaserPro, Fusion DecisionPro and Fusion CreditQuest products, the bank will be able to manage its lending process from origination through to booking and thus increase efficiency and customer service.

Coupa Software (NASDAQ:COUP), a leader in business spend management (BSM), was named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide SaaS and Cloud-Enabled Procure-to-Pay (P2P) Applications 2018 Vendor Assessment. Among the 11 vendors evaluated, Coupa is recognised as a leader for capabilities and strategies.

Averon, developer of the world’s first mobile identity verification standard that is both automatically frictionless and ultra-secure, announced today it has closed a $5 million Series A1 financing round led by Avalon Ventures and Salesforce founder and CEO Marc Benioff. The round follows Averon’s heavily oversubscribed Series A (October 2017), also led by Avalon Ventures, bringing the full Series A amount raised to $13.3 million.

Financial Software Systems (FSS), a global leader in payments technology and transaction processing, announced a strategic partnership with Just In Time Group (JIT), a systems integrator with over two decades of experience, to expand its market footprint in Sri Lanka. As part of the partnership, JIT would provide regional banking know-how, system integration skills, post-sales support and overall project coordination for successful implementation of FSS products. This would enable banks and payment service providers to rapidly bring innovative payment solutions to the market. 

As ultra-high-net-worth individuals accumulate more assets and wealth, financial confusion and disorganization can grow. SEI (NASDAQ:SEIC) Private Wealth Management today announced expanded technological features to its client dashboard, organizing clients’ personal financial information and helping them make better wealth management decisions.  

In today’s digital world no one is safe. In fact, the bigger you are – the harder you fall. Reputations can be made or broken in a day, social media has given the world a voice and what this means is that there is nowhere to hide. Not only that, but increased competition and heightened political and economic pressure has meant that the authorities have less patience and more power. Whilst the impact of a large corporate failing is widespread and often felt worse at an individual level, the truth is, the corporate playing field is evening out – and this has to be positive.

Equistone Partners Europe (“Equistone”), one of Europe’s leading mid-market private equity investors, today announces that it has signed an agreement to acquire a majority stake in Small World Financial Services (“Small World” or “the Company”), a leading international, UK-headquartered, multi-channel, cross-border payment service provider.