In the dynamic financial market, the need for an always-on, secure and high quality wired and wireless network is critical to run operations efficiently, especially across multiple locations. To support the continued growth of the world’s largest multilateral borrower and lender, Extreme Networks (NASDAQ: EXTR) today announced that European Investment Bank (EIB) selected Extreme’s software-driven end-to-end networking technology to provide a resilient scalable network across its 40 worldwide offices.

The NextGen Payments - Regtech Leaders Forum 2017, continuing the NextGen Payments events series, is set to launch on September 6-7 in Brussels. The event will address the accelerating digitalisation and automatisation of the finance sector - from regulatory changes and newest compliance practices to AI and robotics integration; its present day effects and the future of personal and business finances. This exclusive event will include participants from all over Europe, Australia, Russia, the Middle East and Africa.

The news is reporting more and more cases of customers being incorrectly charged for bills such as mortgage repayments and bank loans. In fact, late last year, it was announced that more than 750,000 mortgage borrowers were in line for compensation after technical faults in their banks’ systems[1] overcharged them for falling into arrears.

Co-founding Strands came as a natural next step for me after a degree in computer science from the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) and a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from the EPFL in Switzerland.

Prior to setting up Strands with Francisco Martin in the US, Professor Boi Faltings and I had co-created and sold a company using AI for travel planning, which at the time was a huge step in innovation.

We predicted that 2017 would be the year of ‘Mobile Payments 2.0’, with seamless payment methods, value-added services and alternative payment channels coming to the fore. As we move into the second half of 2017, what better time to take a moment to reflect on what we have learned from the year so far, and the key trends and technologies driving progress and innovation.

The importance of VAS

On September 7, Daniel Zakrisson, one of Cofound.it’s founders, will share his experience in conducting a successful crowdsale campaign and reveal the ICO opportunities at Blockchain & Bitcoin Сonference Stockholm.  

In June 2017, his own Cofound.it platform, designed for investment seeking and startup financing (the project was designed by the team of ICONOMI blockchain project), raised 15 million dollars within the ICO.   

Pelican, a global provider of Artificial Intelligence powered payments and financial crime compliance solutions for banks and corporates, today announced its expansion into Asia Pacific with the opening of a new office in Hong Kong.  As part of this move, Pelican has appointed Colin Camp to lead the growth in the region.

Verifi, Inc., a leading provider of 

> Most Common Passwords 

Looking at the list of 2016’s most common passwords, we couldn’t stop shaking our heads. Nearly 17 percent of people are safeguarding their accounts with “123456.” What really perplexed us is that so many website operators are not enforcing password security best practices.

Using external, public data sources we scoured 10 million passwords from data breaches that happened in 2016. A few things jumped out:

Wolters Kluwer’s Finance, Risk & Reporting business today announced that Chartis Research has named the company a Category Leader in its Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) Report for 2017. Chartis uses in-depth research and a clear scoring system to determine which MiFID II solutions can best meet an organization’s needs.