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Barclays Accelerator powered by Techstars

5 years 11 months ago
FinTech StartUps

Countingup announces journals to advance the true single accounting ledger

5 years 11 months ago
Accounting

Countingup, the UK’s leading banking and accounting app for SMEs, is the first business current account in the world that has both journals and financial reports built-in. A journal is a tool that allows accountants to make manual adjustments to the ledger. Thus, enabling accountants to capture the transactions that impact a business’ accounts which are not already captured by bills, invoices or banking transactions. Examples include...

NeoXam and ICE partner to bring ICE pricing and reference data to clients

5 years 11 months ago
Transaction Banking, Data

NeoXam, a leading provider of financial data management and transaction software solutions, announced it has integrated ICE Data Services’ pricing and reference data with NeoXam’s “NeoXam DataHub”, a leading platform for Enterprise Data Management (EDM solution). ICE Data Services is a global leader in market data, analytics and connectivity services, and is part of Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE: ICE).

Refinitiv makes strategic investment in ModuleQ and its intelligent app

5 years 11 months ago
Investment, Infrastructure

Refinitiv, one of the world’s largest providers of financial markets data and infrastructure, has invested in and entered a strategic partnership agreement with ModuleQ, a Microsoft partner for Office 365 and Microsoft Teams. ModuleQ’s intelligent app predicts users’ current priorities while working in Microsoft Teams to bring them timely and relevant content, news and analytics.

Creatio Offers its Products for Free to Organizations Fighting Against COVID-19

5 years 11 months ago
Cloud, CRM

Creatio, a global software company providing a leading low-code platform for process management and CRM, is announcing a new initiative aimed at helping businesses fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. Healthcare, charity, volunteering, governmental and similar organizations that are communicating and working to stop the spread and/or mitigate the consequences of the infection can use Service Creatio, customer center edition at no cost for six...

Billingo to digitalize the billing services with Salt Edge data aggregation

5 years 11 months ago
Open Banking, e-billing, e-Invoicing

Billingo, the second-largest online invoicer in Hungary joined hands with Salt Edge, a leader in developing open banking solutions, to become the very first online biller in the country to offer a range of opportunities fuelled by bank data aggregation, without having their own PSD2 licence. Open banking started its journey in Hungary in September 2019 when PSD2 was transposed into national law. A high level of technological development in the...

Focus on Technology at the Africa Digital Insurance Conference

5 years 11 months ago
Insurance

The Africa Digital Insurance Conference 2020 (ADIC 2020) promises to be the continent’s insurance disruption tech event. This year the conference, which takes place between 24-25 June 2020 at the Villa Rosa Kempinski in Nairobi, focuses on innovation, showcasing technological and design solutions for the challenges and opportunities faced by insurance companies as they keep up with the digital era.

Ant Financial unveils SaaS version of its database solution OceanBase

5 years 11 months ago
SaaS

Ant Financial today launched the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) version of its technology product OceanBase, a financial-grade distributed relational database that has been a key computing infrastructure for Alipay since 2010. OceanBase is highly stable, scalable, reliable and budget-friendly compared to other traditional database solutions. In October 2019, OceanBase was ranked number one in terms of performance by the Transaction Processing...

Financial scam warning as cybercriminals exploit COVID-19 pandemic fears

5 years 11 months ago
Cybersecurity, Fraud Detection

GoCompare is urging people to stay safe online as official statistics show a dramatic increase in phishing and online shopping scams, with cybercriminals looking to capitalise on coronavirus fears. According to Action Fraud’s figures for March 2020, coronavirus-related fraud reports have increased by 400%, with victims’ losses totally nearly £1million.

CaixaBank will cancel rent payments on the homes it owns during the state of alert

5 years 11 months ago
Banking

CaixaBank, headed by Chairman Jordi Gual and Chief Executive Officer Gonzalo Gortázar, continues to help its customers and, as of April this year, will offer rental payment holiday to the eligible tenants of the homes owned by its subsidiary BuildingCenter. This measure will be in force until such time when the government declares the end of the state of alert, including any extension.

Mastercard enables Contactless limit raise across 29 countries; and champions permanent increase

5 years 11 months ago
Payments

Today Mastercard announced its commitment to enabling the increase in contactless payment limits across Europe. The move comes as 29 countries implement new limits, which will ultimately improve shopping experiences for people across the region.

Revolut Business: 63% of SMEs haven’t switched business account provider in five or more years

5 years 11 months ago
Banking

Revolut Business, an innovative global business account built for growth, speed, ease and security, today released the findings of its “2020 Vision: Taking a closer look at antiquated banking practices” report.

Wolters Kluwer Compliance Solutions Issues US IRS Guidance

5 years 11 months ago
Security and Compliance

Wolters Kluwer’s Compliance Solutions business has issued guidance about recently announced US relief measures in light of COVID 19. Last week the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced “relief” for persons (i.e., individuals, businesses, etc.) to pay 2019 taxes due. On Saturday, March 21, 2020 the IRS issued a second announcement which added to the relief an extension to file 2019 federal income tax returns. The extended deadline for a...

Erste Bank Hungary Improves and Secures the Remote Banking Experience with OneSpan Mobile Security

5 years 11 months ago
Transaction Banking, Security

OneSpan™ (NASDAQ: OSPN), the global leader in securing remote banking transactions, today announced that Erste Bank Hungary, a subsidiary of Erste Group Bank AG, one of the leading banks in Central and Eastern Europe, has integrated OneSpan’s Mobile Security Suite into its banking app MobilBank. Erste Bank Hungary selected Mobile Security Suite to enable and protect online and mobile transactions and to comply with PSD2 requirements for...