Axioma, a leading provider of enterprise market risk analytics and portfolio construction solutions, has released the latest version of its suite of Worldwide Equity Risk Models™ (“WW4”), which consists of short- and medium-horizon fundamental and statistical models. 

NRI, a leading global provider of system solutions and consulting service, and Microsoft Japan, today announced a joint decision between the two companies to establish the Financial Digital Innovation Consortium. The Consortium will be officially established on November 1, 2017, and will initially be composed of 18 organizations that will conduct proof of concept (PoC) studies on key trends in financial technology.

Appian, a leading Low-Code and Business Process Management platform provider, announced today the latest version of the Appian platform with patent pending intelligent and automatic paralle

Creative software, data & analytics companies are sharpening established practices and challenging legacy systems in the insurance sector, as significant inroads are being made into the giant insurance market. This innovation trend is driven by growing consumer power, rising cost pressures leading to a search for efficiencies, mounting regulatory burdens, and a large pool of venture capital.

• Pomanda is a platform for investors, advisers, professional service providers and the business owners they engage with.
• The first platform to be built around the transaction journey – no matter which stage or side of the deal you are on.
• Gives users  the tools to value companies, conduct business analytics and connect to deal-flow in a confidential and secure space. 
• Combines cutting edge technology, industry insight and academic research to modernise corporate finance.

New research released today shows that around 21million* current account holders may submit a Subject Access Request (SAR) to their bank after the General Data Protection Act goes live in May 2018. Around a further 8million** credit card holders will also ask for the information held on them.

Starting your own business can be challenging in today’s competitive and overcrowded market. Even if you have an original idea and a strong team to work with, getting access to and securing finance remains one of the biggest stumbling blocks to overcome.

The ai Corporation (ai) has acquired SmartCentric Technologies International Limited (SmartCentric) for an undisclosed sum. SmartCentric, which was established in December 2002, is a specialist solutions company, focused 100% on secure payments and transactions, particularly in the Fuel Card market.

Financial services comparison website GoCompare has selected prevero on the Azure cloud platform to enable a more sophisticated finance planning environment.

Prevero’s solution replaces previous systems and processes with flexible and sophisticated planning and forecasting capabilities in the cloud. The new system will better capture data and strengthen GoCompare’s planning and modelling capabilities.