The Ever-Expanding Role of the CFO
- 5 years 3 months ago
- Infrastructure
“A recent McKinsey survey found that the CFO’s role has become broader and more complex than even 2 years ago. Today’s CFO has an average of 6.2 reporting functional areas with a corresponding increase in responsibilities including board engagement and taking the lead in digital transformation initiatives.” In order to adapt to the constant changes within the role, a modern CFO must be passionate about innovation and value creation.
CFO Summit - Are you a Finance leader?
- 5 years 3 months ago
- Infrastructure
If so, the 37th CFO Summit will help you gain insight into new #strategic approaches that meet the ultimate goal of reducing #cost and improving #operational #efficiency. When: November 7-9, 2019 Where: Four Seasons Resort & Club at Las Colinas| Irving, TX The 37th CFO Summit program will include presentations from the likes of:
NSD Presents Its Vision of Blockchain Use in Financial Infrastructure
- 5 years 4 months ago
- Blockchain, Infrastructure
National Settlement Depository (NSD) has issued a white paper with analysis of the use of the blockchain technology in Russia and worldwide. Practical experience in implementing projects, asset tokenization scenarios, governance and standardization issues were subjects of particular attention. A document entitled “Blockchain in Financial Infrastructure: Risks and Opportunities” is now available on the company’s website in Russian and English.
The Shift from Hardware to Software Subscription: The Impact on People and the Bottom Line
- 5 years 4 months ago
- Infrastructure
Nutanix’s global workforce of over 5000 employees are learning to Get Comfortable Being Uncomfortable - one of the organization’s newly developed Culture Principles. In this interview, Nutanix Director of People Development and Culture, Deep Mahajan, shares her experience of transforming and evolving the company’s culture Tell us about Nutanix:
Copper is the first institutional custodian to generate secure keys for Gram investors
- 5 years 4 months ago
- Trading Systems, Infrastructure
Copper, the London-based custodian for digital assets, is the first institutional custodian to integrate the Telegram Open Network (TON) key generator. This allows investors that took part in the $1.7 billion fundraise to receive their Gram tokens from Telegram. This news follows an email sent on Wednesday, 2nd October from Telegram announcing to investors that the Telegram Open Network is planned to be launched in late October.
DTCC Exception Manager Growth Brings Efficiency and Cost Savings to Post-Trade Lifecycle
- 5 years 4 months ago
- Trading Systems, Infrastructure
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the premier post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, today announced that its Exception Manager platform has passed an important milestone, managing more than 2 million records related to 849,556 transactions/trades/exceptions and representing over $100 billion in market activity.
Allevo selected BCR-InnovX Accelerator Program for Scale-ups
- 5 years 4 months ago
- IT Innovations, Infrastructure
Allevo is one of the 5 companies selected to participate in the BCR-InnovX Accelerator Program for Scale-ups (companies with turnover between EUR 1 mil. and 2,6 mil.). The programis a project initiated by InnovX, sponsored by BCR (member of Erste Group), and run in colaboration with UiPath, Mindspace and Startup Grind in partnership with Google for Startups.
Public nervousness holding back a UK financial services sector mired in digital FOMO
- 5 years 4 months ago
- Infrastructure
Over half of UK financial services business leaders (56%) are worried their organisation could miss out on the benefits of technological innovation because they haven’t planned radically enough for it, according to Fujitsu’s ‘Driving a Trusted Future in a Radically Changing World’ report.
Thomson Reuters Chooses Ping Identity to Modernize Its Identity Security System
- 5 years 4 months ago
- Digital Identity, Infrastructure
Ping Identity (NYSE: PING), a pioneer in Intelligent Identity, today announced that Thomson Reuters has saved $1.2 million by leveraging its platform to modernize the organization’s authentication infrastructure.
Open banking platform Tink announces partnership with Caixa General Depósitos
- 5 years 4 months ago
- Cloud, Infrastructure
Swedish open banking platform Tink today announces a new partnership with Portugal’s leading bank, Caixa Geral de Depósitos (CGD). CGD has integrated Tink’s products, with Aggregation, Payment Initiation, Data Enrichment and Personal Finance Management (PFM), in its newly-launched app — DABOX. DABOX is being launched to CGD’s 4 million strong customer base, and Tink’s platform will underpin the app to enable the bank’s customers to make smarter... more
Deutsche Bank, XTX and Saxo Bank go live on Cobalt FX post-trade infrastructure
- 5 years 4 months ago
- Trading Systems, Infrastructure
Cobalt, the foreign exchange (FX) infrastructure based on shared ledger and high-performance technology, is now live with Deutsche Bank, XTX Markets and Saxo Bank. Cobalt has been developed to re-engineer post trade FX infrastructure and processes. Its automated technology matches all versions of a trade into a single ‘trusted copy’, freeing up post trade resources from multiple layers of reconciliation and cost; generating one immutable data... more
DTCC Calls for Establishing Business Resilience as Industry-wide Priority to Protect Against Future Market Disruptions
- 5 years 4 months ago
- Infrastructure
Acknowledging the growing potential for future disruptions to critical business services that could create market instability, The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the premier market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, today called for establishing business resilience as an industry-wide priority in a new white paper, Resilience First.
Registration for the 5th Paybase Collaborative Workshop on 2nd October has now opened.
- 5 years 5 months ago
- Infrastructure
The workshop will be all about balancing liquidity—one of the most important considerations for marketplace platforms. The agenda will be covering a variety of topics, from the basic principles of balancing liquidity, to using data science to balance supply and demand on marketplace platforms. Speaking at the workshop will be: Paul Cook, Growth and Analytics advisor for companies like Hiyacar, Esme Loans, Licklist and Booxscale, Claas Stüdemann... more
The Digital Transformation Event for Financial Leaders – Co-located with Connected World Summit & Smart Home Summit
- 5 years 5 months ago
- Infrastructure
The financial sector is at the forefront of digital innovation with disruption taking place at every level. New technologies, increasing competition and ever-growing consumer expectations have resulted in a turbulent financial landscape, bringing both challenge and opportunity. The Banking Transformation Summit 2019 brings together key players from across the finance and banking industry, showcasing the latest innovations, unlocking the... more
Agreement between SIA and AVM holding to activate digital payments on venice “vaporetto” boats
- 5 years 5 months ago
- Payments, Infrastructure
SIA and AVM Holding (Azienda Veneziana della Mobilità – the Venice public transport company) have signed an agreement to create an innovative digital platform that will allow residents and tourists to buy tickets using payment cards and smartphones, also in contactless mode, on board the “vaporetto” boats where the crew will be equipped with 650 Android SmartPOS terminals. (VIDEO)
