QuantHouse to provide TSL machine learning capabilities as part of the QuantFactory cloud backtesting suite
- 5 years 8 months ago
- Trading Systems
QuantHouse, the global provider of end-to-end systematic trading solutions including innovative market data services, algo trading platform and infrastructure products and part of Iress (IRE.ASX), today announced that Trading System Lab® (TSL) has added their machine learning capabilities as part of the QuantFactory cloud backtesting suite.
Refinitiv expands its digital capabilities for Wealth Managers with the launch of Refinitiv Digital Investor
- 5 years 8 months ago
- Wealth Management
Refinitiv continues its commitment to the Wealth Management industry with the launch of Refinitiv Digital Investor. This highly flexible solution empowers firms with faster time to market for digital properties, while providing their investors with a seamless digital experience including account information, workflow tools, analytics, news, and insights related to their holdings.
Leave Nobody in the Dark
- 5 years 8 months ago
- Covid-19
Good Things Foundation, The Joseph Rowntree Foundation, The APLE Collective, Clean Slate Training & Employment CIC and Mastercard have formed a coalition of partners to offer immediate support to digitally and financially excluded people in the UK, with a focus on those in poverty hit hardest by the impact of COVID-19. Digital inequality has for some time risked exacerbating poverty and reducing financial wellbeing. However, the need to...
Sidetrade’s CashTarget brings gamification to the dash for cash, post-lockdown
- 5 years 8 months ago
- Cash management, Treasury
Sidetrade (Euronext Growth: ALBFR.PA), the Artificial Intelligence platform dedicated to accelerating company revenue and cashflow, is thrilled to unveil CashTarget, a new feature using gamification for businesses who are reviewing and restarting their treasury performance. With CashTarget, collecting cash will never be boring! Sidetrade has today launched a new feature called CashTarget, which uses gamification for businesses who are restarting...
Trade Ledger and Equifax extend partnership to support bid for Capability & Innovation Fund (CIF) to transform SME credit scoring
- 5 years 8 months ago
- Banking, Security, Data
Trade Ledger, the global banking platform, and Equifax, the consumer and business insights expert, have announced an extended partnership for the UK market which will bid for the BCR Capability and Innovation fund. The fund is part of the RBS Alternative Remedies Package, designed to improve the financial products and services available to small and medium enterprises.
Xalq Bank successfully completes implementation of TranzAxis
- 5 years 8 months ago
- Payments
As part of a strategic project to modernise its infrastructure, Xalq Bank, one of the leading banks in Azerbaijan, has launched the open development payments platform TranzAxis from Compass Plus. The flexibility of this software solution will allow the bank to expand the range of services and products provided to customers and quickly respond to market changes.
ClauseMatch Expands Compliance Workflow and Collaboration Platform with a Launch in the US
- 5 years 8 months ago
- Compliance
ClauseMatch has announced today the launch of its US office in New York. The opening comes in response to demand from US companies and international clients operating in the US. They include Barclays, as well as two of the largest financial organizations in the country: a publicly traded bank based in New York and one of the world’s largest investment firms. After London and Singapore, New York is the third location across the globe where...
Technology experts discuss the role of innovation in tackling financial crime
- 5 years 8 months ago
- Security
In the latest episode of the RegTech 20:20 podcast from Encompass, guest speakers Charles Delingpole, CEO and Founder, ComplyAdvantage, and Teodora Christova, EMEA Partner Manager for Refinitiv, delve into new research focusing on the topic of innovation in financial crime and priorities in the industry.
Security markets across countries will recover at a different pace but the outlook is promising, finds Frost & Sullivan
- 5 years 8 months ago
- Security
Frost & Sullivan’s recent analysis, Post-Pandemic Growth Opportunity in the Global Security Industry, finds that the security industry has tremendous investment opportunities despite the economic slowdown witnessed due to COVID-19. Under an aspirational recovery scenario, the global security industry is likely to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 4.3%, garnering revenue of $140.60 billion by 2025 from $109.30 billion in 2019.
FinecoBank launches Aberdeen Standard Investments Funds
- 5 years 8 months ago
- Banking
FinecoBank today announces the expansion of its investment products with a suite of funds from Aberdeen Standard Investments (ASI). With the new funds from ASI, Fineco clients in the UK now have access to a new set of funds, representing a wide variety of investment strategies and asset classes. The ASI Funds will be available through the Fineco Investment platform for a cost of platform of just 25 basis points per year.
B-North appoints seasoned SME banking expert as Regional Managing Director for first lending pod
- 5 years 8 months ago
- People Moves
B-North, the firm building an SME lending bank for the UK, has announced the appointment of Rebecca Owen as its first Regional Managing Director. Rebecca will help to develop and launch the firm’s first ‘lending pod’ – which will be based in Manchester. Rebecca’s skill set is perfectly suited for the challenges of delivering a new regional SME lending bank, the UK’s first in 150 years, as she has both extensive experience in delivering...
Retail investors set to sweep up diminishing supply of Bitcoin
- 5 years 8 months ago
- Bitcoins
A report on intentional holdings of Bitcoin published today by digital assets derivatives exchange ZUBR, shows that, if current investment trends continue, daily demand will dwarf the new market supply of bitcoins mined after 2028, when the reward declines further. Exclusive data from the blockchain and market analytics firm, Chainalysis, was used to analyse whether there was a growth in wallet addresses (or accounts) that could be viewed as “...
Trend of increased global use of digital payment technology to be accelerated
- 5 years 8 months ago
- Payments
The Covid-19 pandemic will accelerate a worldwide trend towards contactless payments, according to a new report from the Emerging Payments Association EU (EPA EU), which was commissioned by Luxembourg for Finance (LFF).
Bankers cite credit risk as the top concern in Wolters Kluwer’s Basel IV survey
- 5 years 8 months ago
- Credit Risk
There is a general consensus among bankers as to which challenges posed by the Basel III finalization reforms (commonly referred to as Basel IV) are most acute, with credit risk identified as the biggest challenge, and of the need to use the data generated to make their institutions more efficient and profitable.
UK Public Cite Greater Concern over the Future of the National Health Service (NHS) and the UK Economy than Their Own Health or Online Threats, According to Unisys Security Index™
- 5 years 8 months ago
- Covid-19, Risk Management
Brits are more concerned about COVID-19’s impact on the NHS and the UK economy (61%) than their own personal health (41%); British consumers are less worried about online threats, with concerns about hacking and using online services falling drastically compared to 2019, while the majority are working from home
