Equiniti Credit Services Explores UK Attitudes to Lending in New Report
- 7 years 9 months ago
- Infrastructure
A new research report from Equiniti Credit Services, the UK’s leading consumer credit technology and outsourced service provider, depicts a rising market for credit in the UK, with consumer motivations for borrowing split between funding aspirational items such as holidays and household goods (47%), and managing or consolidating existing debt (53%). The report has also identified a stark age group difference in attitudes to technology with 73%... more
Digital Dunning and Debt Collection: collectAI manages 25m Euro in Receivables
- 7 years 10 months ago
- Infrastructure
collectAI, the service for digital receivables, has processed receivables at a volume of 25m Euro since its foundation in 2016. collectAI automates and digitises invoices, dunning and debt collection processes and is the first digital end-to-end provider in receivables management. Examples of successful KPIs on the clients’ side include: Introducing digital communication channels lead to an increase of the collection rate of 33 percent, while... more
CA Technologies Scales Up Privileged Access Management for Large Enterprise and Managed Service Deployments
- 7 years 10 months ago
- Infrastructure
CA Technologies today announced a new release of its CA Privileged Access Management (PAM) solution that addresses scalability and performance needs for departmental and geographical expansion. CA PAM 3.0 gives companies the ability to scale their PAM deployments across multiple departments, and provides Managed Service Providers (MSPs) a helpful way to manage multiple instances of the product for their customer base across platforms and... more
Banks Benefit from Faster Post-trade Issue Resolution
- 7 years 10 months ago
- Trading Systems, Infrastructure
Taskize, the problem solving network for inter-bank operations, reports rapid expansion of its network for post-trade issue resolution. Founded by industry veterans John O’Hara and Phil Slavin and backed by Euroclear, Taskize was created in response to the pressing need for a better way to address post-trade issues between firms.
Hong Kong FinTech Week the Perfect Stage for Global FinTech Business
- 7 years 10 months ago
- Infrastructure
Invest Hong Kong (InvestHK) today (September 7) announced that Hong Kong's regulators, along with a host of private sector partners, entrepreneurs and industry leaders, will participate in the second annual Hong Kong FinTech Week, to be held from October 23 to 27 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre in Wan Chai. The Week will focus on the driving forces that shape Hong Kong as a global financial technology (FinTech) hub.
PrePay Solutions Boards Monese’s ‘Brexit Bus’ to Support €350 Million Free Movement Campaign
- 7 years 10 months ago
- Payments, Banking, Infrastructure
PrePay Solutions (PPS), Europe’s leading prepaid and digital banking services provider, and Monese, provider of instant bank accounts, have successfully completed a European tour to promote the launch of the challenger bank’s new Eurozone account.
NSD Runs Commercial Bonds Platform Based on Hyperledger Fabric 1.0 and Smart Contracts
- 7 years 10 months ago
- Blockchain, Infrastructure
National Settlement Depository (NSD) has operated emission and initial placement of the first blockchain-based commercial bonds on the Russian market. NSD has joined forces with two majors to bring to life a decentralized ledger solution that will allow trading, placement and record keeping for bonds to be simple and transparent. Raiffeisenbank Russia became a blockchain bond issue pioneer, starting the initial placement and subsequently... more
Nasdaq Reveals Board Portal and Team Collaboration Software
- 7 years 10 months ago
- Infrastructure
Nasdaq Corporate Solutions, a business of Nasdaq, Inc. (Nasdaq:NDAQ), today unveils its next generation board portal and team collaboration software, Nasdaq Boardvantage.
NPL and QuantHouse Partner to Provide NPLTime® Precise Timing Service to Meet Demand Ahead of MiFIDII Implementation
- 7 years 10 months ago
- Trading Systems, Infrastructure
NPL, the UK’s National Measurement Institute, is expanding its precise timing service, NPLTime®, through a distribution agreement with QuantHouse, the independent provider of trading and infrastructure solutions and innovative market data services to the quant trading community.
Novel and Useful Crowdfunding Ideas Don’t Work Together
- 7 years 10 months ago
- Infrastructure
New research on crowdfunding carried out by HEC Paris, the University of Technology Sydney, Singapore Management University and INSEAD has revealed that funding efforts are weakened if ideas are deemed to be both novel and useful. The study is the first evidence of how the Kickstarter community – those backing crowdfunding projects on the world’s largest online crowdfunding portal - values projects that pursue innovation.
Compuware Introduces Cloud Access to Mainframe Development Topaz Availability
- 7 years 10 months ago
- Infrastructure
Compuware today made Topaz, its flagship solution for mainframe Agile/DevOps, available on Amazon Web Services (AWS). This marks the industry’s first cloud access to modern mainframe development, enabling enterprises to deploy agile tools for COBOL and other core codebases in minutes.
New Atos Paper Outlines Major Advances in Cyber Security
- 7 years 10 months ago
- Security, Infrastructure
Atos, a global leader in digital transformation, believes waiting for digital threats to materialise will soon be consigned to history as we enter a new age of predictive cyber security capability able to ward off cyber threats even before they occur.
Fintech Peer to Peer Lending Platform, Beehive, Raises $5m Investment
- 7 years 10 months ago
- Infrastructure
Beehive, MENA's leading peer to peer lending (P2P) platform, has secured $5m investment as part of a Series A round led by Riyad TAQNIA Fund and supported by the Mohammed Bin Rashid Fund (MBRF), the financial arm of Dubai SME, as well as several other regional investors. This latest fundraise brings the total raised by Beehive to $10.5m since its launch. Craig Moore, Beehive Founder and CEO, said:
EclecticIQ Platform 2.0 Redefines Threat Analysis with Intelligence Reporting, New UI, and More
- 7 years 10 months ago
- Artificial Intelligence, Infrastructure
Reaffirming EclecticIQ's commitment to improving the effectiveness of cyber threat analysts, the new analyst-centric features of EclecticIQ Platform 2.0 allow investigations to go faster and go farther than any other product on the market.
Six Firms Partner with IHS Markit to Design Securities Lending and Repo Reporting Solution
- 7 years 10 months ago
- Consultancy, Infrastructure
IHS Markit (Nasdaq: INFO), a world leader in critical information, analytics and solutions, today announced that it has partnered with six leading securities finance market participants as part of its ongoing effort with Pirum Systems to build a solution to address Securities Finance Transaction Regulation (SFTR) reporting requirements.
