Swiss Post Solutions and OnGuard are proud to announce a partnership that will deliver end-to-end, order-to-cash business process outsourcing. The partnership combines a suite of technology and automation tools with process expertise, enhancing service efficiency and removing cost, by reducing manual processing. Clients will benefit from improved KPI’s across the Order to Cash Cycle.

Gary Harrold, Chief Executive Officer of Swiss Post Solutions UK and Edwin Merk, Director Channel Development of OnGuard signed the partner agreement.

You know that 50-page Travel & Expense (T&E) Policy that you used as a doorstop back in the '90s?  Almost nobody read it, and yet whole forests were cleared so that everyone could pretend to read it.

During on-boarding processes, employees would be given these lengthy policies. Then, they would collect dust as people moved on with their business lives. Needless to say, that made policy compliance difficult to achieve, and made it hard for companies to adapt their policies to changing market and business conditions.

Today’s figures show how starkly importers in the UK were affected by the vote to leave the EU. They clearly scaled back their activities significantly in July due to a huge depreciation in the value of sterling, with the currency hitting a 31 year low against the dollar and a 10% drop in trade-weighted value after the vote to leave.

The proverbial table for asset management’s evolution has been set for quite a while. Some would say what started with the financial and regulatory effects of the Great Recession has now bubbled to the surface, manifesting itself in the form of high overhead, lower AUM and, subsequently, fewer managers. Regarding actively managed assets, the US-based Investment Community Institute (ICI), cited a net outflow of $835 billion from 2007 to 2015.

Walt Lukken, president and CEO of FIA, announcedthat Greg Wood has been hired as the Senior Vice President of Global Industry Operations & Technology.  Wood will help lead the strategic direction of FIA by developing and maintaining key strategic relationships with various constituencies in the industry; identifying and managing member and industry operational, execution and market structure issues; and guiding the development of FIA’s operational and technical solutions.

Novitex, the leading North American professional services company in the document outsourcing industry, announced today that it has been awarded a multi-year, multi-million dollar deal to manage the processing of the undelivered as addressed mail (UAA) for a leading financial services company in the United States.

Urban FT, provider of the industry’s most compelling white-label digital banking platform, announced from FinovateFall 2016 the availability of the Urban FT Workshop management portal, a breakthrough technology that enables financial institutions to create custom digital banking programs within hours and, after

With much of the MiFID II Level 2 text close to being finalised, the markets continue to dive even deeper into the details and home in on Level 3 material, such as the Q&As and ESMA guidelines.

Accenture has entered into an agreement to acquire New Energy Group, an Italy-based company specializing in Salesforce solutions. The move solidifies Accenture as a leading provider of Salesforce capabilities in Italy and Spain and strengthens the company’s overall global footprint, market-leading technology capabilities and deep industry experience.

Signifyd, the fastest-growing provider of fraud protection for e-commerce businesses, today announced it has secured $19 million in capital from Menlo Ventures, TriplePoint Capital and American Express Ventures. This announcement comes on the heels of Signifyd’s $20 million Series B round in February 2016, which included funding from Menlo Ventures, Allegis Capital, IA Ventures, QED Investors, Bill McKiernan and Tim Eades. This latest investment allows Signifyd to scale its infrastructure and further optimize its best-in-class machine learning technology.