Accuity’s Global WatchList Selected by Aktia Bank to Provide Regulatory sanctions and other compliance data
- 8 years 1 month ago
- Banking, Compliance
Aktia Bank has selected Accuity’s Global WatchList® to provide regulatory sanctions and other compliance data covering people (PEPS), companies, vessels, goods, countries and payment information. The Finnish bank’s decision to implement Accuity’s comprehensive data solution was driven by two objectives: proactive compliance with regulatory requirements to identify sanctioned entities; together with a need to improve the efficiency of Aktia Bank’... more
UnionPay International Rapidly Expands QuickPass Business Overseas
- 8 years 1 month ago
- Payments, Retail Banking
Based on analyses of Chinese tourists' overseas spending, UnionPay International is rapidly and accurately expanding QuickPass business overseas. Nearly 180,000 POS terminals in Hong Kong, Macao,Taiwan, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore accept UnionPay chip cards with "QuickPass" signage and various mobile QuickPass-enabled products. The overseas transaction volume of UnionPay QuickPass grew 8 times in 2015, and is growing rapidly... more
Atom Bank Acquired IT Development Business Grasp
Atom Bank, recently ranked 8th in KPMG’s Global Fintech listing and 1st in Tech World’s Digital Challengers list is delighted to announce the successful acquisition of the IT development business Grasp (UK) Limited, owned by Brian Jobling. As part of the deal, Brian becomes Business Development Director at Atom. The development team from Grasp will now be part of the Atom family, based in Durham, and will bring extensive experience of working... more
PYMNTS.com/BlueSnap: Mobile Checkout Lag Behind at Many Merchants
- 8 years 1 month ago
- Payments, Retail Banking
A review of 39,000 data points, across 657 sites and 14 merchant categories shows that merchants are getting worse, not better, when it comes to optimizing their sites for mobile checkout, leaving as much as $152 billion dollars on the table. “Of course, that $152 billion is not lost forever,” says BlueSnap CEO Ralph Dangelmaier, “they are just lost to other merchants who are better able to accommodate a mobile shopper.”
The B2 Group Integrates its Multi-Bank Integrator™ Automated Banking Platform
- 8 years 1 month ago
- Banking, Infrastructure
The B2 Group, provider of financial systems integration solutions announced today, its advanced Multi-Bank Integrator™ automated banking platform for corporate cash and treasury management will now integrate with a number of African banks.
E.Sun iPayment Kiosk Goes Live in Taiwan Thanks to NCR
- 8 years 1 month ago
- Payments, Retail Banking
NCR Corporation, the global leader in consumer transaction technologies, today announced that it has customized the first ever financial kiosk solution in Taiwan for E.Sun Bank - “E.Sun iPayment Kiosk” - which includes bill payment, statement printing, and notes exchange to ease counter queues. The bank also selected NCR APTRA Connections software to run on the kiosk and a fleet of newly purchased NCR SelfServ ATMs to provide personalized ATM... more
Vermilion Goes Live with Jyske Bank
- 8 years 1 month ago
- Banking, Infrastructure
Vermilion Software (‘Vermilion’), the leading global supplier of client reporting and communications software, announces that it has gone live with leading Danish private bank, Jyske Bank A/S (‘Jyske Bank’). Founded in 1967, Jyske Bank is the third largest Danish bank in terms of market share. A critical factor for Jyske was finding a provider that could individualise reporting for its high-net-worth clients.
R3 CEV Trials Distinct Blockchain Technologies with 40 Banks
- 8 years 1 month ago
- Banking, Infrastructure
Financial technology innovation company R3 CEV has successfully trialed five distinctblockchain technologies in parallel in the first test of its kind. The trial represented the trading of fixed income assets between 40 of the world’s largest banks across the blockchains, using multiple cloud technology providers within R3’s Global Collaborative Lab. The trial marked an unprecedented scale of institutional collaboration between the financial and... more
iGTB Analyzes SME Online Banking Needs
- 8 years 1 month ago
- Online Banking
iGTB, the world’s first comprehensive global transaction banking solution from Intellect Design Arena Limited, today announced the results of its landmark survey into the online banking needs, problems and preferences of UK SMEs. With SMEs traditionally under-served by banking providers – whose solutions are often targeted at larger corporate clients – the survey sought to clear the mist around SME banking requirements and the financial... more
Techcombank Goes Live with Misys FusionCapital
- 8 years 1 month ago
- Banking, Risk Management
Misys, the leading financial software company, announced today that Techcombank in Vietnam has gone live with Misys FusionCapital to transform its growing Markets and Treasury functions and increase its risk management capabilities. By following Misys best practice implementation processes the bank went live within 10 months.
Nice and BCG Team Up to Transform Customers' Omni-channel Experience
- 8 years 1 month ago
- Retail Banking
This combination of strategic expertise and powerful technology will enable organisations across numerous industries to achieve significant business results by making improvements in the following areas: • Customer operations efficiency: By leveraging NICE Call Volume Optimisation, organisations can proactively address customer needs to enhance satisfaction and brand loyalty
JCB Cards to be Accepted by International Bank of Azerbaijan
JCB cards will be accepted at all of IBA's acceptance locations throughout the country by the end of February 2016.
Gro Account Opening Selected by Wings Financial Credit Union
- 8 years 1 month ago
- Banking, Infrastructure
Gro Solutions, a leading provider of digital growth solutions for banks and credit unions, announced that $4.2 billion, Apple Valley, Minn.-based Wings Financial Credit Union is the latest financial institution to implement Gro Account Opening, which simplifies the opening of new Wings Financial Credit Union accounts. Gro Account Opening leverages GPS, imaging, wireless carrier data, email address parsing and other features to limit manual text... more
Saxo Bank and Malta Based Bank of Valletta Sign for Introducing Broker Partnership
- 8 years 2 months ago
- Banking
Saxo Bank, the online multi-asset trading and investment specialist, announces today a new co-Branded Introducing Broker (IB) partnership with Bank of Valletta, the largest commercial bank in Malta.
Lloyds Banking Group Innovates Biometrics in Banking
- 8 years 2 months ago
- Banking, Infrastructure
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