The primary role of a traditional bank providing financing and capital is set to be challenged further in a post COVID-19 world by non-banks, according PwC’s report, “Securing your tomorrow, today – The future of financial services,” which predicts that alternative providers of capital are set to become an even more important part of the global financial system.

findexable, the company behind the world’s first global platform of fintech companies and hubs, announces that Dr. Leda Glyptis has joined the organisation as its Chair. In this role, Dr. Glyptis will lead findexable’s continued development as a world-wide hub for collaboration, research and innovation for governments, entrepreneurs and investors in financial technologies.

Finastra announced that First Independence Bank has selected its Fusion Phoenix core, Fusion Digital Banking, Fusion DepositPro and Fusion TotalTransact, as well as a number of other solutions, in order to provide its customers with a robust and fully digital banking experience.

Degroof Petercam and Avaloq announce signing of agreement to implement Avaloq’s Software as a Service (SaaS) solution as Degroof Petercam’s new core banking system. This new solution will transform Degroof Petercam’s IT platform and better position the institution for growth and new opportunities.

Ideal Prediction (Ideal), the award winning independent trading analysis and data science company for capital markets, has appointed Jonathan Fieldman and Geoff Jones to its Advisory Board.

Horizon Software (Horizon), provider of electronic trading solutions and algorithmic technology for the global capital markets, today announced that it has won the FOW and Global Investor Asia Capital Market Awards in the ‘ Best Multi-Asset Trading System of the Year’ category.

The Asia Capital Markets Awards are an expansion of FOW’s long-standing ‘Awards for Asia’ program and represent the largest financial services awards in Asia.

Payments testing and consultancy expert, FIME has been qualified to deliver Visa Contactless Payment Specifications (VCPS) Level 2 terminal testing at its San Jose lab. North American terminal vendors can now achieve multiple accreditations from the payment industry’s key international bodies and schemes in a single test session.

Button, the leading mobile commerce technology company, announced that