NTT Security, the specialized security company of NTT Group, has strengthened its UK management team with the appointment of Azeem Aleem to the position of Vice President Consulting and Head of its UK & Ireland (UK&I) business. Azeem is a highly respected cybersecurity specialist and joins following a six year tenure at RSA Security, where most recently he held the role of Global Director and Head of its Worldwide Advanced Cyber Defence... Read more »
ACH Alert, an award-winning provider of electronic payments fraud prevention technology for financial institutions of all sizes, today released its latest whitepaper, “Transform Treasury Management with Actionable Fraud Prevention Solutions.” In the paper, ACH Alert reveals how banks and credit unions can transform their fraud prevention strategies to stop unauthorized transactions in the most cost-effective and Read more »
Identity verification specialist Onfido today announces that leading crowdfunding platform Indiegogo is using its AI-led identity verification to ensure that fraudsters are kept off of the Indiegogo platform. Read more »
Fenergo, the leading provider of Client Lifecycle Management solutions for financial institutions, today announced that the company doubled its revenue to €58m for the year ending 31st March 2018, and expanded its global footprint into key regions across APAC, Europe & North America. Fenergo continues to show significant growth, having doubled their year-on-year gross margin with an increasing proportion of revenue resulting directly from... Read more »
Paybase has announced the first of its collaborative workshops for marketplace and gig/sharing economy platform founders. The event will be held at Paybase’s London office on October 11th. CEO Anna Tsyupko voiced why Paybase wanted to hold such an event. “When you look at companies such as Uber and AirBnB, you can see the incredible impact that platform businesses can have. But with this new type of commerce come new, specific challenges that... Read more »
Wolters Kluwer has announced the launch of a data feed service of its market-leading regulatory content for global financial services customers through the RSA Archer Corporate Obligations Management use case. Read more »
HCL Technologies (HCL), a leading global technology company, today announced that it has been selected to help drive IT transformation at the UK’s third-largest grocery retailer, Asda. The three-year application services contract will see HCL transform Asda’s IT Application Services with a new DevOps delivery model to drive data and analytics and support back-office applications through the full lifecycle of development, testing and support. Read more »
Opting for managed services for non revenue-generating activities and implementing scalable cloud computing power will be key differentiators in terms of financial services firms’ ability to compete in the digital age, according to a white paper published today by Celent, a global research, advisory, and consulting firm, and Torstone Technology, a leading provider of post-trade securities and derivatives processing. Read more »
Ant Financial launches Ant Financial Technology, a new brand supporting the growth of financial institutions, at ATEC 2018 in Hangzhou, China. HANGZHOU, August 20, 2018 – Ant Financial Services Group (“Ant Financial” or “the Company”) today announced that the Company would open up a full suite of technology products and services under a new brand, Ant Financial Technology, to support the growth of financial institutions by improving user... Read more »
First Data (NYSE: FDC), a global leader in commerce-enabling technology, signed an agreement with Huifu Payment Ltd (Huifu, 01806.HK), a leading third-party payment provider in China, to offer a market-leading global eCommerce solution into China. Read more »
Cross-channel customer engagement platform, Engage Hub has been shortlisted as a finalist, for the ‘Best Use of Technology in Customer Engagement’ category for the Engage Awards 2018. Read more »
Cappitech, a leading provider of regulatory reporting and intelligence technology for the financial services industry, and Trax, a leading provider of capital market data, trade matching and regulatory reporting services, have entered into an agreement, which enables mutual customers to streamline their MiFID II transaction reporting. Read more »
Today, digitization is omnipresent in most areas of our lives. Also the financial sector has to face the changes and developments which are brought along with the new era of an increasingly digitalizing world. Although the speed of implementation often cannot match with the ambitious expectations, there is no risk that the financial sector misses the digital transformation. To ensure that the strict regulations of the financial sector do not... Read more »
Nucleus195 today launched its investment research and management platform, allowing investors to have one centralized location for all their investment research needs. Read more »
According to the Akamai 2018 State of the Internet / Security Credential Stuffing Attacks report, worldwide malicious login attempts are on the rise. Findings from the report show that Akamai detected approximately 3.2 billion malicious logins per month from January through April 2018, and over 8.3 billion malicious login attempts from bots in May and June 2018 – a monthly average increase of 30 percent. Read more »
