Tagetik, a leader in global performance management software solutions, furthers its commitment to providing the Office of Finance with a powerful, scalable and intuitive platform for managing financial processes, performance, and reporting.  Tagetik’s focus on improving collaboration, within and outside the office of finance, was originally highlighted by its innovative Collaborative Disclosure Management (CDM) product that intuitively incorporates collaboration and workflow in

Today the role of the custodian in Africa has evolved. This is especially evident in the way custodians are focusing on meeting both business and client needs to initiate and enable development of the continent’s capital markets. 

Access National Bank is pleased to announce the opening of our new Alexandria Banking Center, located in the Carlyle District at 2050 Ballenger Avenue — steps away from the US Eastern District Courthouse and the USPTO main campus. The new office officially opened for business on November 22.

Andrew Miskin, FCMA, CGMA, has been named the first chair of the Association of International Certified Professional Accountants (the Association), the new global accounting organisation to be formed early next year by the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) and The Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA). Miskin is the current president of CIMA and will continue to serve in that role concurrently.

He will work closely with Tim Christen, CPA, CGMA, outgoing chairman of the AICPA board of directors who will serve as initial vice chair of the Association.

Leading Chinese property developer Sino-Ocean Group Holding Limited (“Sino-Ocean”; HKEx: 3377) and global investment firm KKR have entered into a definitive agreement to invest in China leading retail outlets developer and operator Beijing Capital Juda Limited (“Capital Juda” or “The Company”; HKEx: 1329) through a combination of new ordinary shares and perpetual convertible bond securities for a total consideration of HKD1,477 million (US$191 million).

KKR today announced the closing of two direct lending transactions, which will provide financing for Roompot, a leading operator of holiday parks, and Exterion Media, a leading outdoor advertising company in the UK and Europe.

With business gaining momentum and more clients continuously committing to the Pan-European MiFID II multi-asset trade reporting service TRADEcho, Boat have appointed Carl Nilsen, former Head of Equities at Oslo Bors, as Director of Sales. Carl joins hot on the heels of Per Lovén, former Liquidnet Head of International Corporate Strategy.

Playtech, the world's leading gaming content and software, systems and services supplier, is pleased to announce that BGT founder Dr. Armin Sageder has been appointed CEO of Playtech BGT Sports.

The new division brings together Playtech Sports companies BGT, Geneity, Mobenga, Unilogic and Playtech's internal Sports Trading team and contains more than 600 employees based in Nicosia, Malmö, Vienna, London, Bremen and Sofia.

I blogged the other day about too many banks and that there’s not a big enough market for forty of them here in Britain.  It made me think about what do customers really want?

A survey by leading Regtech provider, Equiniti, has found that as many as 11.7 million Brits could have been victims of financial cybercrime.

The independent research, carried out in partnership with YouGov, polled 2,100 people about their attitudes to mobile banking. The sample was weighted to be representative of the UK adult population, and revealed that 24% have experienced financial cybercrime in their lifetime.