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One of the top business priorities for 2021 across the finance industry is the ability to effectively manage large volumes of data from multiple streams – including customer information, financial transactions, marketing campaigns, software logs and so on. However, with financial firms facing more stringent regulation than other industries, managing this data can potentially become an overwhelming task with little to no room for error.

For years, Smart Eye has been leading the driver monitoring space, enabling safe and sustainable transportation. As we watched this category evolve into Interior Sensing, monitoring the whole cabin, we quickly recognized Affectiva as a major player to watch. Affectiva’s pioneering work in establishing the field of Emotion AI has served as a powerful platform for bringing this technology to market at scale. At the end of the day, this is about saving lives and bridging the gap between humans and machines.

The idea of a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) – a blockchain-based digital currency issued by a central bank – is now a reality, with the launch of the Sand Dollar in the Bahamas, the first fully-deployed digital version of a country's fiat currency. 

Taking this to an entirely new scale, the launch of a major CBDC trial in China involves six of the country’s largest banks promoting the country’s digital currency to consumers as an alternative to existing popular private payment apps, such as WeChat Pay and Alipay.

Hinduja Global Solutions (HGS) announced today that it is looking to hire up to 250 remote customer service representatives in Quebec to support the ongoing growth of its Canadian entity. Global leader in business process management and optimizing the customer experience lifecycle, HGS will be offering local expertise to Quebec companies who want to stand out in the area of customer service, a sector HGS has been excelling in for over 40 years.  

Smart home with security features provides their owners a peace of mind, knowing that if potential trouble is detected, they will be immediately notified and can take complete control of what to do next to minimize the damage. Although the COVID-19 did influence the global smart home security market, revenues of the entire sector continued growing substantially.

Forter, the leader in e-commerce fraud prevention, today announced it has raised $300 million in Series F funding led by Tiger Global Management, with participation from Third Point Ventures and Adage Capital Management. Existing investors also participated including Bessemer Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, March Capital, NewView Capital, Salesforce Ventures and Scale Venture Partners.

Volante Technologies, the global leader in cloud payments and financial messaging, and Deloitte are joining forces to offer clients an innovative new service that enables financial institutions to transform how they run their payments business. Volante’s cloud-based technology solutions for financial institutions will now include added insight and integration services from Deloitte as part of a broader strategic alliance agreement. 

Opsmatix, an innovative provider of AI-powered omnichannel operations automation solutions, announces a significant new partnership with Enterprise Engineering Inc. (EEI). Based in New York, EEI is a strategic consultancy firm delivering digital transformation projects to the financial services and healthcare industries.