Mechanics Bank has strengthened its wine industry presence with the appointment of Dan Aguilar, a well-known banking professional whose 20 years of wine industry lending experience have included corporate finance, banking, lending, and cash management services to a wide array of West Coast wine enterprises. Mr. Aguilar will serve as Senior Vice President and Regional Manager, Commercial Banking in Napa.

Lebanon is emerging as one of the Middle East’s leading markets introducing innovative cashless payment solutions.

London Tech Week 2017 is set to be bigger and better than ever, with London & Partners announcing a new partnership with leading global events provider KNect365, part of Informa PLC. The new partnership will take Europe’s largest tech event to the next level, offering a wider range of events than previous years, including a new series of six major events at the ExCeL and a concert to celebrate the week.

FICO Falcon Fraud Manager provides core analytic processing power to handle an organization’s transactional fraud detection needs such as debt, credit, deposit, ePayments and mobile. It can be used to process events, develop strategies to detect fraud and create cases, and execute associated decisioning across an institution’s products, channels and customers.

FICO® Siron® Anti-Financial Crime Solutions consists of flexible and highly integrated software modules for:

•             Anti-Money Laundering

•             Tax Compliance (FATCA, CRS/AEOI)

•             Counter-Terrorism Financing

•             Know Your Customer

•             Business Partner Due Diligence

The building-block design allows variable combination of the products. This paves the way to genuine cost efficiency, transparent total cost of ownership and solutions that can grow along with the challenges of our customers.

Northern Trust announced an exclusive partnership with BEx LLC, a leading provider of software solutions in the financial technology sector, to deliver innovative foreign exchange (FX) solutions to meet the growing needs of its clients as they evolve their trading strategies and require access to increasingly sophisticated support and expertise.

NCR Corporation announced that the Bank of Oak Ridge, Oak Ridge, N.C. (OTC Pink:BKOR), and Gorham Savings Bank, Gorham, Maine, are the latest financial institutions to deploy NCR Interactive Teller technology, bringing NCR’s total number of interactive teller customers beyond 300. This unique software-driven, hardware-enabled disruptive technology enables consumers to interact via high-quality video and audio with their banks’ remote-based video teller.

 A first of its kind, Raphaels Bank Payment Services, a niche payments bank now offers Apple Pay to the bank’s Cash Passport Multi-currency card customers. The Cash Passport Multi-currency card – which is enabled by Mastercard Prepaid Management Services – will be the first facility to transact in up to 10 currencies using Apple Pay and demonstrates a continued commitment to leading innovation in the payments sector.