The 2017 edition of Slush, an international enterprise and technology conference that started in Finland, recently came to a conclusion in Changyang Valley, Yangpu District, Shanghai. The two-day event brought together over 3,000 participants from 50 countries who were given the opportunity to be exposed to many unique ideas suggested by enterprises from different countries and cultures and from across a wide range of industries. Read more »
Team Pulse OS from the University of Toronto were announced as the winners of the SWIFT Institute Student Challenge 2017 at the closing plenary session of Sibos in Toronto. Javier Perez-Tasso, Chief Executive for the Americas and UK Region, SWIFT, presented team leader Nataliya Mykhaylova with a 20,000 CAD award. Read more »
Azimo, the leading online money transfer business, today announced triple-digit growth across virtually every metric-including transactions sent, gross transaction volume, and revenue-as online remittances from the diverse communities of Europe to the rest-of-the-world booms. For example, over the past 12 months, Azimo saw a 236% increase in the amount of money sent to Poland, with Moldova (225%) and Nigeria (207%) following closely behind. Read more »
SWIFT is launching a message translation offering that will allow users to define and validate messages from any format to ISO 20022, streamlining the process of migrating to a new standard. As many market infrastructures (MIs) move to ISO 20022, financial institutions using older or proprietary message formats must ensure their messages remain compatible. Many legacy systems will need to be upgraded in order to process the new standards. This... more Read more »
Synaptic Software, the company responsible for developing research software for professional advisers, today launches Synaptic Analyser, a retirement income analysis and drawdown product comparison tool, that will help financial advisers support their customers in planning for retirement. Read more »
BNP Paribas and Enyx are pleased to announce a strategic partnership to ensure market data stability and quality for BNP Paribas Global Markets’ market access infrastructure. Read more »
Appway has released two new solutions for financial services based on its latest Appway 7 technology, already live with clients worldwide. After serving international and domestic banks with award-winning client onboarding for the past ten years, Appway is releasing the fully revamped Onboarding for Wealth solution, which integrates digital and physical interactions for hyper-connected customers in the Digital Age. Read more »
Leading market infrastructure provider Lucera has selected BSO’s connectivity route to expand its global FX trading reach, as trading volumes start to rise. Read more »
With industry analysts forecasting unprecedented change for the Financial Services and Insurance (FSI) industry over the next three years,[1] companies need a highly flexible, open and secure communications foundation with which they can confidently embrace the future. Read more »
Salesforce, the global leader in CRM, today announced that it is now live on Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud infrastructure in Australia. As part of its strategic partnership with AWS, customers in Australia can access the Salesforce Customer Success Platform—including Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Salesforce Platform, Community Cloud, Analytics Cloud, Financial Services Cloud and more—on the AWS Sydney Region. Read more »
For the first time ever, pioneering travel software provider, CodeGen, will be exhibiting at ITB Asia. The industry leader will be showcasing its signature reservation platform, TravelBox as well as the newest advancements in artificial intelligent led solutions. Read more »
As experimentation and development of new fintech applications continues to grow, The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the premier post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, today unveiled a new framework of nine key factors to assess when considering its impact on financial stability. Read more »
Broadridge FXL is a market leading 24/7 FX solution that utilizes a rules- and exception-based system to reduce human intervention. The technology enables clients to rapidly scale to meet their customer needs around FX, options, money markets and cash/liquidity management. The best-in-class, web-enabled solution will allow Earthport to expand services in a controlled environment and incorporate flexibility to enable a fast-track, efficient... more Read more »
Signicat, the first and largest identity assurance provider in the world, and SDC, a full-service IT service partner for the financial sector in the Nordic countries, today announced that 83% of SDC’s Danish banking clients’ customers’ mortgage applications are processed wholly digitally. The fully digital process for application, approval and signing has reduced the time to complete the mortgage process from weeks to days — and sometimes, in... more Read more »
44 Million Credentials Downloaded by 2021 Fewer than 1 million mobile credentials were downloaded by end users of mobile access solutions in 2016. However, this number is expected to increase rapidly during the next five years, reaching 44 million downloads by 2021. Read more »
