Wealth & Asset Managers in Europe are closer to embracing new technologies than their sell-side counterparts because CEOs in the industry understand the importance of technology within the business, according to over 200 Information Technology (IT) executives working in the financial services sector.

With innovative technologies continuing to transform the entire customer buying journey, the in-store shopping experience this Christmas is likely to be entirely different to that in 10 years’ time. From the moment customers enter the store and select gifts for loved ones, through to the checkout process and getting goods home - there’s no touch point that will be left unchanged or even find itself redundant in years to come.

Assetz Capital has launched its Innovative Finance ISA today.

The business peer-to-peer (P2P) lender’s ISA is available as a wrapper on all of the automated investment accounts, with the Manual Lending Account also set to be allowed into the ISA in early 2018.

Bahrain Middle East Bank (BMB) has chosen Wolters Kluwer’s OneSumX for Finance solution to provide the basis for its core banking and reporting system.

Sequel, the leading insurance and reinsurance software specialist, has today announced that Qatar Insurance Company (QIC), the international insurance firm based in the Middle East, has chosen Sequel Impact to help its offshore energy team manage its global exposure to risk for their Lloyd’s Antares Syndicate, QIC and Qatar Re businesses. 

eGain, the leading provider of cloud-based customer engagement solutions, today announced its integration with Salesforce.com.

"Businesses are increasingly layering customer engagement systems on top of systems of record such as CRM for differentiation and innovation," said Ashu Roy, eGain CEO. "eGain Solve for Salesforce.com complements Salesforce CRM with award-winning knowledge management, AI, and digital capabilities for customer service."

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A new corporate supply chain finance platform launches today, which aims to improve credit management and provide additional transparency, security and flexibility for banks and their corporate customers.

We live in an age of analytics; every day in this data-driven world, we’re giving away personal information, sometimes without even realising it. For example, to access new services I need to enter my personal details, with the trade-off being the uncertainty as to where and how my information will be stored and shared. And this happens all around the world, every single day. But do people feel they are fully aware of the personal data that government currently holds on each of us? And do people trust them with this responsibility?

This time Howard Berg, Senior Vice President of Gemalto shared with Financial IT his insights on the importance of biometrics in payments and what value can it add to merchants and consumers at FinTech Connect Live 2017.

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