MPE 2017 Perspective on European Card Acquiring in 2020: What Are the Key Success Factors in the World of Digital Acquiring and Ongoing Consolidation?
- 8 years 8 months ago
- Infrastructure
The card acquiring industry is undergoing huge changes on its way to reposition for the digital age. Banks, PSPs and monoline acquirers are working on their modern acquiring strategies to survive in times of the convergence of payments, the ISO 20022 harmonization standard, multiple regulatory demands, competition, commoditization, the need to embrace digital transformation and the mantra of seamless shopping experiences across all touch points.
CPEC Fiscal Cost More Manageable Than Feared
- 8 years 8 months ago
- Infrastructure
Our analysis of fiscal costs related to CPEC reinforces our positive view – We are more comfortable with fiscal risks associated with the China Pakistan Economic Corridor as a result of the analysis presented in this report; this reinforces our positive thesis on Pakistan equities. Our top stock picks are UBL, HBL, BAFL in Banks, INDU, PSMC in Autos, MLCF in Cement, KEL in Utilities.
Eka Software’s Commodity Analytics Cloud Awarded IT and Software Solution of the Year - Business Intelligence Category
- 8 years 8 months ago
- Infrastructure
Eka Software Solutions, the leading global provider of Smart Commodity Management software solutions, today announced that Eka was awarded IT and Software Solution of the Year - Business Intelligence Category by Corporate Vision magazine. The company was recognized for its groundbreaking Commodity Analytics Cloud solution, which aggregates information from across the value chain and uses predictive analytics to enable faster, fact-based decision... more
Lloyds Bank Trials British Sign Language Translation Technology
- 8 years 8 months ago
- Banking, Infrastructure
Lloyds Bank has become the first financial services company to undertake a trial with Signly – a British Sign Language (BSL) translation tool. Lloyds Banking Group’s Innovation Labs trialled the technology to understand how Signly could offer an alternative option for up to 250,000 people in the UK who use BSL each day. Since undertaking the trial, the Bank is now looking to test the technology with a wider group of customers.
LendingRobot Unveils Robo-fund LendingRobot Series
- 8 years 8 months ago
- Investment, IT Innovations, Infrastructure
LendingRobot, the first robo-advisor for Alternative Lending built for individual investors, announced today the launch of robo-fund LendingRobot Series. Designed as an alternative to traditional fixed income investments, LendingRobot Series is a one-stop solution that combines cloud-based investment automation, fully transparent fund secured by Blockchain technology and sophisticated machine learning algorithms to provide superior, predictable... more
IBERIABANK Selects Novantas’ PriceTek Platform
- 8 years 8 months ago
- Retail Banking, Infrastructure
Novantas, the industry leader in analytic advisory services and technology solutions, is pleased to announce that IBERIABANK has selected Novantas’ PriceTek® its platform to manage deposits throughout their growing footprint. PriceTek will help the bank’s retail banking and treasury teams to grow and manage long-tenured, low-cost core deposits with enhanced analytics capabilities.
Ontario Securities Commission Reveals its Announces Fintech Advisory Committee Members
- 8 years 8 months ago
- Infrastructure, People Moves
The Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) announced today the membership of its new Fintech Advisory Committee (FAC), which will advise OSC staff on developments in the fintech space as well as the unique challenges faced by fintech businesses in the securities industry.
TransUnion Migrates to Red Hat-based Infrastructure
- 8 years 8 months ago
- Infrastructure
Global risk and information solutions provider migrates to Red Hat-based infrastructure, powering new products and services and accelerating time to market
Xignite opens New York Office and gets two senior financial services executives on board
- 8 years 9 months ago
- FX Contracts, Institutional Trading, Market and Reference Data, Infrastructure, People Moves
Xignite, Inc., the leading provider of cloud-based financial data application programming interface (APIs), has expanded its leadership team adding two senior financial services executiv
Nuvias Launches New Switzerland Office in Zurich
- 8 years 9 months ago
- Infrastructure
Nuvias, the pan-EMEA, high value IT distributor (which includes Zycko, Wick Hill and SIPHON) announces the opening of a new office in Zurich, Switzerland. This latest office gives Nuvias complete coverage across the DACH1 region and complements its existing offices in Germany (Munich, Hamburg and Berlin) and Austria.
UBS AG Renews Global Finance Operations Deal with HCL
- 8 years 9 months ago
- Financial, Infrastructure
UBS AG, the Swiss global financial services company, renewed its Finance Operations services contract with HCL Technologies (HCL), a leading global IT services company, announced HCL. HCL will continue to deliver key Finance Operations services to UBS AG, supporting cost transparency and continuous improvements to the operating model of its finance department for the next three and half years.
Esprow Unveils Support for OUCH and ITCH Protocols in ETP Studio
- 8 years 9 months ago
- Trading Systems, Infrastructure
Esprow Pte. Ltd., a provider of enterprise testing technology for the financial markets, announces support for the OUCH and ITCH protocols within Esprow’s ETP Studio, a multi-protocol tool for regression testing of financial systems. This new functionality delivers wider end-to-end testing of financial systems based on OUCH and ITCH, including support for SoupBinTCP session management and the GLIMPSE protocol, according to the Managing Director... more
Timely testing phase kick-off for EBA CLEARING’s pan-European instant payment system
- 8 years 9 months ago
- Payments, Infrastructure
EBA CLEARING today announced the timely kick-off of the testing phase for its pan-European instant payment infrastructure platform scheduled to go live in November 2017. Twenty-eight of the funding institutions from all over Europe were represented at a meeting in Milan, which marked the start of the testing phase and included a demonstration of the functioning of the new system in the test environment run by EBA CEARING’s technical solution... more
How IoT and Data Science are creating Smart Transportation in Europe
- 8 years 9 months ago
- Data, IT Innovations, Infrastructure
Big Data is transforming how many companies operate. By collecting an enormous amount of data from a variety of sources and subjecting it to in-depth analysis, the door has been opened to unprecedented insight into areas such as customer behavior, predictive marketing and real-time product insights. Those harnessing Big Data in this way are realizing benefits such as increased revenue, greater workforce productivity, lower customer churn, and... more
BroadSoft Named The UCaaS Platform Global Market Share Leader by IHS Markit
- 8 years 9 months ago
- Infrastructure
BroadSoft, Inc., has been identified by IHS Markit as the global Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) platform leader, with 38% of the total worldwide UCaaS seats running on its platforms, as of the second quarter of 2016. According to the IHS study, the BroadSoft UCaaS global market leadership position places it ahead of its closest competitors.