IFRS 9: What It Is, and What You Need to Do to Prepare for It
- 4 years 10 months ago
- Banking, Data, Accounting
The International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) Foundation is a non-profit standards committee that aims to set the bar for accounting and keeping financial information. IFRS’s standards can be adopted by financial institutions like banks, as well as companies listed in the public stock exchange. IFRS standards are meant to slowly replace the previous bars set by the International Accounting Standards (IAS) Board, the IFRS’ parent...
DWF Acquires Leading Compliance Training Business, Zing365
- 4 years 10 months ago
- Security and Compliance
DWF, the global provider of integrated legal and business services, has today acquired Zing365, a leading compliance training and professional development business, to further extend its Connected Services offering.
Smart Eye Enters Into an Agreement to Acquire Affectiva and Intends to Raise Equity in a Directed Share Issue
- 4 years 10 months ago
- M&A Deals
For years, Smart Eye has been leading the driver monitoring space, enabling safe and sustainable transportation. As we watched this category evolve into Interior Sensing, monitoring the whole cabin, we quickly recognized Affectiva as a major player to watch. Affectiva’s pioneering work in establishing the field of Emotion AI has served as a powerful platform for bringing this technology to market at scale. At the end of the day, this is about...
Forex24 to Open R&D Center in Kyiv
- 4 years 10 months ago
- Corporate
Forex24, a well-established Cyprus Investment Firm, announced opening a new R&D center in Kyiv, Ukraine. The center will enable the company to create new technologies to support forex trading.
HGS, Global Leader in Business Process Management is Hiring 250 Remote Employees in Montreal and Quebec City
- 4 years 10 months ago
- Management
Hinduja Global Solutions (HGS) announced today that it is looking to hire up to 250 remote customer service representatives in Quebec to support the ongoing growth of its Canadian entity. Global leader in business process management and optimizing the customer experience lifecycle, HGS will be offering local expertise to Quebec companies who want to stand out in the area of customer service, a sector HGS has been excelling in for over 40 years.
Smart Home Security Systems to Grow by 40% and Hit $21.2B in Revenue by 2023
- 4 years 10 months ago
- Security
Smart home with security features provides their owners a peace of mind, knowing that if potential trouble is detected, they will be immediately notified and can take complete control of what to do next to minimize the damage. Although the COVID-19 did influence the global smart home security market, revenues of the entire sector continued growing substantially.
Forter Doubles Revenue in Last 12 Months; Raises $300M for a $3B Valuation
- 4 years 10 months ago
- E-Commerce
Forter, the leader in e-commerce fraud prevention, today announced it has raised $300 million in Series F funding led by Tiger Global Management, with participation from Third Point Ventures and Adage Capital Management. Existing investors also participated including Bessemer Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, March Capital, NewView Capital, Salesforce Ventures and Scale Venture Partners.
Volante Technologies and Deloitte Enter Into Strategic Alliance Agreement To Accelerate Payments Modernisation
- 4 years 10 months ago
- Payments
Volante Technologies, the global leader in cloud payments and financial messaging, and Deloitte are joining forces to offer clients an innovative new service that enables financial institutions to transform how they run their payments business. Volante’s cloud-based technology solutions for financial institutions will now include added insight and integration services from Deloitte as part of a broader strategic alliance agreement.
Opsmatix Joins Forces with Enterprise Engineering Inc.
- 4 years 10 months ago
- Artificial Intelligence
Opsmatix, an innovative provider of AI-powered omnichannel operations automation solutions, announces a significant new partnership with Enterprise Engineering Inc. (EEI). Based in New York, EEI is a strategic consultancy firm delivering digital transformation projects to the financial services and healthcare industries.
DTCC Highlights Need for Increased Adoption of Central Clearing in U.S. Treasury Market to Reduce Risk and Improve Resiliency
- 4 years 10 months ago
- Security, Corporate, Treasury
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the premier market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, today released a new white paper that explores the risks created by U.S. Treasury market fragmentation.
Large Latin American Financial Institution Moves 10,000 Agents to NICE CXone
- 4 years 10 months ago
- Cloud
NICE CXone (Nasdaq: NICE) today announced one of the largest financial institutions in Latin America has chosen CXone, the industry’s most proven, complete and smart customer experience platform, for a comprehensive move of 10,000 agents to the cloud. It is phasing out an outdated on-premises system in favor of a more flexible, scalable option with CXone that is expected to drive down costs while improving customer and agent experiences.
Today - GDPR 3rd anniversary 25 May
- 4 years 10 months ago
- Security and Compliance, Security, Data
Alex Scheinman, Managing Director, ACA Aponix. "The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) reached its third-year anniversary on 25 May 2021, and has had a significant influence in shaping data privacy regulation around the globe. This includes in the US and countries outside of the EU, with most of the recent enacted privacy regulation as well as draft regulations having been influenced by the EU’s data protection framework – the regulation...
Qumulo Unveils Post Production Platform in the Cloud with Studio Q on AWS
- 4 years 10 months ago
- Cloud
Qumulo, the breakthrough leader in radically simplifying enterprise file data management across hybrid cloud environments, today announced its new Studio Q Quick Start offering, a comprehensive post production platform that enables creative teams to replicate the collaborative editorial production process in the cloud. With a simple AWS CloudFormation deployment, studios, broadcasters and corporate video production teams can now run Adobe®...
Zeta raises $250M from SoftBank Vision Fund 2 for its Omni Stack for Banks
- 4 years 10 months ago
- Banking
Zeta, a banking tech startup, announced today that it has secured $250 million in investment from SoftBank Vision Fund 2. This Series C investment values Zeta at $1.45 billion. This is one of the largest single investments in a banking tech startup globally.
Paylink Solutions Appoints Director to Develop New Client Relationships
- 4 years 10 months ago
- People Moves
Fintech firm, Paylink Solutions, has hired Andrew Alder as Director of Developments and Partnerships as they increase their client base across the collections, debt advice and lending markets - and support the UK’s financial services sector to meet increased consumer and regulatory demand.
