To some, it is magic. To insurance, it is reality. The ability to accurately discern the past and predict the future based on nothing but data points and the long-lived experience of actuaries and adjusters has served the industry well up to now, allowing insurance to become the multi-billion-dollar industry it is today. The past few years, however, have witnessed in a dramatic shift to this picture, prompted by the advent of the Internet of... more Read more »
The Agenda of IFINTEC Finance Technologies Conference and Exhibition (09-10 April 2019 - Istanbul, Turkey) is announced on the event website. IFINTEC is a global conference which is one of the biggest and most important conferences in EMEA region with its focus on Retail Banking, Digital Banking, Core Banking, Payment Systems, Banking Technologies, Banking IT Solutions, Digital Transformation and Finance Technologies. With 900+ attendees,... more Read more »
SIA, the European hi-tech company, leader in payment services and infrastructures, and Supply@ME, the scale-up of the AvantGarde Group, have signed a partnership agreement to launch - through the SIAchain infrastructure - the new “Inventory Monetization” platform, created by the Milan-based fintech soon to be listed on the London Stock Exchange. Read more »
Refinitiv, one of the world’s largest providers of financial markets data and infrastructure, today announces that its shareholders have agreed definitive terms with the London Stock Exchange Group plc (“LSEG”) under which LSEG will acquire Refinitiv in an all share transaction for a total enterprise value of approximately US$27 billion. The full LSEG announcement can be found here. Read more »
Allevo, a Romanian financial software company, has been nominated, for the second year in a row, as ‘Ones to Watch’ in Europe in a list of business excellence published by the European Business Awards, one of world’s largest and longest running business competitions. Read more »
WorldStream, a fast growing provider of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) hosting solutions with more than 15,000 dedicated servers installed and a global network with 10Tbps of bandwidth available, is preparing itself for further global growth in response to increased customer demand by announcing a major revamp in its management lineup and promoting six of its employees to the role of company director. Read more »
TriOptima, a leading infrastructure service that lowers costs and mitigates risk in OTC derivatives markets, today announced that it has completed the first cleared inflation swap compression run at LCH SwapClear. The compression run was completed on July 19 with Euro cleared inflation swaps being compressed through the triReduce service. TriOptima will go live with Sterling and US Dollar cleared inflation swaps compression in LCH SwapClear... more Read more »
Refinitiv today announced a strategic partnership agreement with Appway, provider of leading client onboarding solutions, to fully integrate their suite of onboarding capabilities on the Refinitiv BETA Platform, a complete suite of brokerage capabilities used by many leading US wealth management and brokerage firms. Read more »
AutoRek are thrilled to announce we will present the new version of VanguARd, our automated cash allocation tool, at the Cforia European User Group on 18 July. The event takes place at the Brewery on Chiswell Street, Central London and all interested AutoRek users are invited to attend. Read more »
In the first phase of E-Invoicing implementation, the private sector was the main driver for market development. However, E-Invoicing is now being increasingly pushed by governments all over the globe, the VAT gap being a main accelerator for the digitization of fiscal, trade, logistical and other business documents. Read more »
Brand-new international market report “The E-Invoicing Journey 2019-2025” has been published and is available for free download. The global market is forecast to encompass 550 billion invoices annually. It is expected to quadruple in size by 2035. In 2019, only around 55 billion invoices are exchanged on a paperless basis. According to this report, it is estimated that the size of the global E-Invoicing / E-Billing and enablement market in 2019... more Read more »
The majority (90%) of banking and financial services CIOs find integrating new communications with legacy systems a challenge, according to new research from global cloud communications software provider, IMImobile. This comes at a time when almost all (98%) banking and financial services CIOs feel under pressure to deliver the customer experience (CX) expected by both customers and the wider business. Read more »
A new report, ‘The State of IT – The Employee Verdict’, reveals that more than half (55%) of financial services workers in the UK lose at least an hour a month to IT problems, with an average 1 hour 23 minutes lost. Although 95% of financial services workers stated they had IT issues at work, less than two thirds (62%) actually reached out to IT support or service desks to solve them. Read more »
DXC Technology (NYSE: DXC), the world’s leading independent, end-to-end IT services company, today announced the opening of the DXC Innovation Centre in London for the company and its clients to develop and deliver high-impact digital solutions. Read more »
