EMQ and Visa Team Up to Offer Cross-border Remittances across Asia Pacific
- 6 years 9 months ago
- Payments, Infrastructure
EMQ, a leading cross-border settlement network in Asia and Visa (NYSE:V) today announced a strategic partnership to offer crossborder remittances across Asia Pacific. This partnership pairs the capabilities of EMQ’s extensive network and Visa‘s real-time1 push payments platform, Visa Direct, to offer customers superior cross-border solutions with greater choice, transparency, and flexibility.
Fintech Trends to keep an eye out for
- 6 years 9 months ago
- Infrastructure
Fintech is an emerging industry which centres the utilization of technology to improve activities in finance, it rivals conventional money related strategies. The essential objective is to replace or enhance the usage of financial services. Disruption in the conventional banking and financial service space is igniting innovative trends, the trends to watch out for are listed below.
Accelerating Employee Experience with IoT – Haltian and Tieto Partner to Make Workplaces Empathic
- 6 years 9 months ago
- Infrastructure
Oulu-based IoT and product development company
Fulham Football Club selects Lexmark and Workflow for reliability and stability in its printer fleet
- 6 years 9 months ago
- Infrastructure
Lexmark International, Inc. a global imaging solutions leader, today announced that Premier League football club, Fulham FC has selected a solution from Lexmark and Workflow to create a stable and reliable print infrastructure to drive cost savings, improve security and reduce the club’s environmental footprint. The Fulham FC administrative organisation sees a significant peak in print demand every two weeks when, Fulham FC’s Craven Cottage... more
NatWest announces launch of new virtual account platform for business customers
- 6 years 9 months ago
- Infrastructure
NatWest has today announced plans to launch a new virtual account platform in partnership with leading Nordic software company Tieto, to offer its SME and corporate customers a new client monies and virtual account management service.
Framework appoints Jean-Pierre Durandeau as Head of Product
- 6 years 9 months ago
- Infrastructure
Framework, a specialist global solutions vendor for Private Equity (PE) and Real Estate (RE) investments, has made a senior hire to its leadership team. J-P Durandeau has been appointed as Head of Product to focus on product development and delivering the best service to Framework’s clients. J-P is the latest of several key senior hires in recent months, underscoring Framework’s ongoing commitment to meet the demand for improved investment data... more
Capgemini joins Hartford InsurTech Hub
- 6 years 9 months ago
- Infrastructure
Capgemini announced today that it has joined the Hartford InsurTech Hub. Powered by Startupbootcamp, the Connecticut-based hub is a global accelerator set up to help the insurance industry advance its innovation goals by scouting technology solutions provided by startups around the world to meet the industry’s core business challenges and aspirations.
SEB SELECTS DTCC’S GLOBAL TRADE REPOSITORY IN SUPPORT OF ITS SFTR OBLIGATIONS
- 6 years 9 months ago
- Infrastructure
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the premier post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, today announced that Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB (SEB) has selected its multi-award winning Global Trade Repository (GTR) service in order to meet their regulatory obligations under the Securities Financing Transactions Regulation (SFTR), which is expected to apply from April 2020.
DER Touristik UK appoints CodeGen to power
- 6 years 9 months ago
- Infrastructure
DER Touristik UK has appointed travel technology company, CodeGen, to provide its end-to-end reservations system, TravelBox, to power premium long-haul travel brand Kuoni in the UK market as part of its digital transformation strategy. The TravelBox platform, which enables travel companies to draw content from multiple sources and create bespoke, multi-centre holiday itineraries, will replace Kuoni’s current system later this year.
Robocash Group and Reliance Finance launch a sharia compliant fintech service in Indonesia
- 6 years 9 months ago
- Compliance, Infrastructure
Robocash Group announced the launch of sharia compliant service Penyaluran Dana Syariah (PDS), which is a sharia compliant funding facility. The service has been developed from the ground up in partnership with the financing company Reliance Finance and close consultation with Sharia Supervisory Board (Dewan Pengawas Syariah).
IPChain: New Types of Intangible Assets at the 10th Global IP Exchange in Berlin on March 13, 2019
- 6 years 9 months ago
- Infrastructure
The IPChain Association and the Skolkovo Foundation organized a thematic round table dubbed, "New types of intangible assets and their relation to intellectual property", within the Global IP Exchange in the German capital. The event brought together high-profile experts to discuss new types of intellectual property objects and other intangible assets, as well as to provide an overview of the situation in various markets.
Digital PayExpo 2019
- 6 years 9 months ago
- Payments, Infrastructure
Transformative innovations in technology can drastically drive presence and scale when offering financial services, opening doors to the unbanked and underbanked populations. The tremendous role that digital financial services (DFS) can play for financial inclusion is well welcome around the globe and regulators have continuously sought to unlock this potential by creating evolving enabling environments.
How banks benefit from using the best cash flow management solutions
- 6 years 9 months ago
- Banking, Infrastructure
It is no secret that banks invest hundreds of millions of euros in the development of their technical infrastructure annually. At the same time, the cost of key software solutions often becomes the stopping factor for innovation.
Sterling on the move ahead of another Brexit vote
- 6 years 9 months ago
- Payments, Infrastructure
Another big vote in Britain, another big move in the U.K. pound. Sterling rebounded ahead of a vote today in the British Parliament on whether to exit the EU without an agreement. The pound’s tentative rise added a headwind on the U.S. currency whose rally has been undercut by tepid data. The euro, yen and Canadian dollar were little changed. Negative data Down Under weighed on both the Aussie and kiwi dollars. Sterling plunged Tuesday after... more
DTCC outlines guiding principles for post-trade processing of tokenized securities
- 6 years 9 months ago
- Infrastructure
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the premier market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, today published a white paper that outlines function-based guiding principles for regulators and market participants for the post-trade processing of tokenized securities. The market for trading crypto assets that are security tokens where the post-trade processing uses distributed ledger technology (DLT), has... more
