Acquisition adds industry leading threat hunting platform to F-Secure’s detection and response offering and expands cyber security services to the biggest markets globally

Requirements for the new standard dovetail with those of other supervisory frameworks. And they can be met with similar approaches to data management, IFRS calculations and accounting, not to mention updated IT infrastructure. That’s according to Philippe Franco, Global Product Manager, Finance, for Wolters Kluwer’s Finance, Risk & Reporting business. 

The current regime of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) leaves few realms of financial activity untouched. IFRS 16 specifically concerns the treatment of leases.

The team behind the first cryptocurrency debit card today announced the launch of B21, the first personal wealth manager exclusively for crypto assets. B21 is a mobile-focused investment platform that allows anyone to create their own portfolio of cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, EOS and many others to be determined by users’ votes.

Alongside Barclays, Deloitte, IDA, Enterprise Ireland and Arthur Cox, FinTech Network will be hosting the 3rd Blockchain for Finance Conference, Europe in Dublin again this year! On October 2nd – 4th, 350+ finance and tech professionals will take over the Aviva Stadium to map out the future role of blockchain in financial services.

What can you expect?

Avoka’s third annual report measures the digital account opening capabilities of the 50 largest banks in three regions: North America, Europe, and Australia. It ranks and compares their offerings across geographies, products, and features, both in breadth and quality of the offering. As used in this report, the term “digital account opening capability” refers to the ability to apply online either on a desktop or mobile device.

While retail banking may be quick to take a customer-first, technology-led approach to innovation, commercial banking has been sluggish to embrace new technologies and customer expectation.  No one is waiting for commercial banking to play catch up. Fintech “challengers” have passed the one million customer mark and over a third of US SME businesses now borrow from non-traditional lenders. With retail banks upping their game, it won’t be long before we see the consumerisation of commercial banking. Those who fail to adapt, risk being left behind.