SimCorp, a leading provider of investment management solutions and services for the global financial services industry, today announced the appointment of Martin Engdal as Director, Global Product Marketing. In this role, Martin will lead SimCorp’s product positioning and drive go-to-market strategies for SimCorp’s solutions based on current and future technology needs of the buy-side investment management industry.

 WorldRemit, ‘the WhatsApp of money’, today launches remittances to Bosnia and Croatia. Customers in 52 countries can now send money transfers from the WorldRemit app to all Bosnian and Croatian bank accounts. 

Most Bosnians and Croatians living abroad usually have to make inconvenient trips to expensive money transfer agents. With the WorldRemit app, they can now send quick and low-cost money transfers to their friends and family back home, 24/7.

HID Global®, a worldwide leader in secure identity solutions, today announced that it is collaborating with Microsoft to make enhanced cloud app security as simple and convenient as tapping a smart card to a laptop, tablet, smartphone and other NFC-based mobile devices.

At HP Protect, the company’s annual enterprise security user conference, HP introduced new enterprise data security capabilities designed to support customers as they shift from traditional security methods to protecting interactions between users, applications and data. Delivered through the data-centric security offerings of HP Atalla and HP Security Voltage, these new capabilities address PCI compliance, data de-identification and collaboration security.

LendInvest has today revealed an entirely new visual identity, including a new logo and website. The rebranding highlights the key strengths of the company while reaffirming LendInvest's position as the leading (and world's largest) peer-to-peer marketplace lender for property.
For investors, the new branding highlights the fact that LendInvest's investments are secured against property; they are ‘investments you can touch'. For borrowers, the new brand makes it clear that LendInvest is not a traditional finance company.

 From September 8 to September 10, 2015, 11 teams from five countries will compete in the championship round of SunGard’s Global Coder Cup ’15, a financial technology code-a-thon, to be held at FC Barcelona’s Camp Nou stadium.

Big Bank Update: Fined, But It's Business as Usual

The institutions have paid billions in penalties. Critics wonder if the levies will set them straight.

Sue Reisinger, Corporate Counsel

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Things have changed a lot since the days of bank robberies by the likes of Bonnie and Clyde. In today’s digital world, bank robbers are often anonymous faces behind a computer screen, and a traditional vault won’t keep your digital valuables safe anymore.  Criminals no longer need to physically break into the bank, they can hack its systems in safety from thousands of miles away and make off with billions without breaking a sweat.

In a world where corporate transactions take place around the clock, payment delays are no longer acceptable. How should banks and PSPs prepare for the New Access Model?

Since its introduction to the UK in 2008, the Faster Payments Service (FPS) has gained huge momentum. Customers are already seeing the benefits in reducing payment processing times, from three working days using the BACS system to as little as a couple of minutes.

The UK’s largest pensioner payment provider has launched a free app to help savers make more considered use of the pension freedoms they are now afforded.

Equiniti believe that with options to drawdown your pension, and retirement typically lasting 17 years, it is critical that people have freedom but also make educated choices so that they can calculate how long their pension pot will last and not run out of money.