The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the premier post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, today announced its proposal to expand the Sponsored Service of its subsidiaryFixed Income Clearing Corporation (FICC) has been approved by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). DTCC views this as the latest milestone in the transformation of the Treasury market.

Aite Group, a global research and advisory firm, recognized Featurespace^™ as Best-in-Class in its 2019 report on fraud and AML machine learning platform vendors (download a complimentary copy of the report here).

ValidSoft, a voice biometric and multi-factor authentication SaaS company today announced the appointment of Tom Hohman as Vice President of Sales for the central and eastern regions of the US.

Fourteen leading global financial institutions have launched a drive to use technology and standardisation for the wider distribution of trade finance assets.

ANZ, Crédit Agricole CIB, Deutsche Bank, HSBC, ING, Lloyds Bank, Rabobank, Standard Bank, Standard Chartered Bank, and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation are among the banks backing the Trade Finance Distribution Initiative (TFD Initiative).

Khaleeji Commercial Bank (KHCB), one of the leading Islamic banks in Bahrain, recently announced that it has partnered with Token.io as part of the bank's preparations to provide open banking services to its clients in compliance with the new regulatory requirements. Token is represented by Tarabut Gateway, a subsidiary of Almoayed Technologies licensed by the Central Bank of Bahrain (CBB).

FIME announced that its testing laboratories have been accredited by EMVCo for EMV^®* Contactless Interface v3.0.

Card, terminal, smartphone and wearable manufacturers can now align with EMVCo’s updated EMV Level 1 Specification. The enhanced specification addresses the latest interoperability and communication needs of EMV acceptance devices and contactless payment form factors.

RENO Schuh GmbH is streamlining its payment processes and entrusting all payments taken in its bricks-and-mortar stores to Concardis. The Eschborn-based full-service payment provider is responsible with immediate effect for acquiring and network operation, hardware, payment processing and risk and credit control for RENO, along with interlinking all payment services and integrating them into the existing IT systems of Germany’s second-biggest shoe retailer. This is set to make business processes automated and more efficient.

A new survey has revealed that the number of people who have considered going somewhere other than their bank for finance is on the increase.

The insights come from a new survey conducted by business finance provider Growth Street. The firm canvassed more than 2,000 directors and employees of British SMEs in January 2019, following up from its inaugural survey in 2018. 

As hundreds of millions of RBS competition fund pounds are being distributed to challenger banking brands, Growth Street’s findings shine a light on an increasingly savvy business finance customer base.

The internet of things explosion has proven controversial due to the insufficient security measures in many of these internet-connected devices. And a new report from cyber security provider F-Secure finds that threats and the number of attacks continue to increase, but still rely on well-known security weaknesses, such as unpatched software and weak passwords.