Ibanera : Baltic Banking & Probanx® integrate CorePlus & CoreConnect
- 6 years 5 months ago
- Core Banking
iSignthis Ltd (ASX: ISX | FRA: TA8) (“The Company”) is pleased to announce that its two wholly owned technology subsidiaries, Probanx Ltd and UAB Baltic Banking Service (BBS), are now cooperating to deliver seamless CORE Banking (‘CorePlus’), SEPA and SWIFT interbank network technology (“CoreConnect”) to prospective customers.
OPEX Asia 2019: State of the Industry Asia vs. The Rest of the World
- 6 years 5 months ago
- Infrastructure
Asia is a small word for a huge region. The largest and most-populated continent on the planet, its influence extends well beyond any geographical border - though as China grows in economic power, Asian companies are increasingly looking to deal with their near neighbour. It’s a complicated picture; OPEX has a role - but how does it fit in? There are really three main questions: How does the Asia region differ from the rest of the world? What...
Ninety Percent of Banks Lag in Ability to Authenticate Customers and Step-Up Security, Survey Reveals
- 6 years 5 months ago
- Security, Data Protection, Security, Authentication Technology
OneSpan™ (NASDAQ: OSPN), a global leader in software for trusted identities, e-signatures and secure transactions, today announced the release of The Future of Adaptive Authentication in the Financial Industry, a report prepared by the Information Security Media Group.
Unbanked People in Africa to Benefit from the Joint Venture between Paxful and Bitmart Exchange
- 6 years 5 months ago
- Trading Systems, Cryptocurrencies
Paxful (www.Paxful.com), a peer-to-peer Bitcoin marketplace, announced on February 21, 2019 at 9am, an integration onto BitMart, a premier global digital asset trading platform in the cryptocurrency market with over 600,000 users worldwide. This partnership comes at a pivotal time for the crypto community and serves as a step the two entities have taken together in the hopes of increasing liquidity and scalability.
BNP PARIBAS & MILLENNIUM GLOBAL INVESTMENTS (MGI) LAUNCH AI FX INDEX
- 6 years 5 months ago
- Investment Management
BNP Paribas today announced the launch of the BNP Paribas MGI Systematic Currency Alpha Index using artificial intelligence through machine learning. The index, created by BNP Paribas in partnership with Millennium Global Investments (MGI), went live in Q1 2019.
EDP One of Europe's Major Electricity Operators Completes a Strategic Investment in the Cybersecurity Company Sepio Systems
- 6 years 5 months ago
- Security
Energias de Portugal, which ranks among Europe’s major electricity operators, and is one of
Barclaycard and UnionPay announce new payment acceptance partnership in the UK
- 6 years 5 months ago
- Payments
Barclaycard, which processes nearly half of the UK’s credit and debit card transactions, today announces a new card acceptance partnership with UnionPay International, a subsidiary of China UnionPay. The deal will enable its 110,000 UK merchants to accept UnionPay through a phased roll out that will begin this summer. UnionPay has the world’s largest cardholder base, and is the preferred payment brand for many Chinese visiting the UK as well as...
Attack traffic up by 32 percent in 2018
- 6 years 5 months ago
- Security
New research from cyber security provider F-Secure reports a significant increase in attack traffic in the latter half of 2018. But while attacks are increasing, it seems many companies are struggling with incident detection. Attack traffic observed by F-Secure’s network of decoy honeypots in 2018 increased by 32 percent over the previous year, and increased fourfold in the latter half of 2018 compared with the first half of the year.
DEKO PARTNERS WITH FEATURESPACE TO FIGHT PAYMENT FRAUD
- 6 years 5 months ago
- Risk Management, Infrastructure
Retail finance technology provider, Deko, has partnered with Featurespace, the leading machine learning Adaptive Behavioural Analytics fraud and risk management company, to bolster the security of its consumer finance lending platform.
Finastra to power core retail banking at Al Taif Islamic Bank
- 6 years 5 months ago
- Artificial Intelligence, Islamic Finance, Infrastructure
Al Taif Islamic Bank has chosen Fusion Islamic, Finastra’s core banking solution dedicated to the Islamic market, to kick start its retail business. The move will provide the new challenger bank’s customers with a consistent and user-friendly experience in branch and across all digital channels, whilst complying with Shari’ah requirements.
Esme Loans teams up with Microsoft to accelerate growth
- 6 years 5 months ago
- P2P Lending
Esme Loans, the end to end digital lending platform that provides unsecured business loans between £10,000 - £150,000 has today announced that it has enlisted Microsoft to build a new cloud based data warehouse, enabling the lender to make faster and better targeted lending decisions and to provide automated service assisted by artificial intelligence (AI).
Increased efficiency with Trustly recurring payments solution frees up significant amounts per month for aid organizations
- 6 years 5 months ago
- Payments, Banking, Infrastructure
Trustly, whose online bank payments are growing in popularity across Europe, has launched a partnership with the Help to Help Foundation to make the administration of monthly payments more effective with Trustly Direct Debit. The service digitizes recurring payments and simplifies the management of donations from monthly donors, which saves both time and money — money that instead can go to those in need.
New research from MMC Ventures identifies ‘the age of the AI entrepreneur’ – as one in 12 new European startups is an AI company
- 6 years 5 months ago
- Artificial Intelligence, Infrastructure
A report released today from venture capital firm MMC Ventures, in association with Barclays, shows that one in 12 new startups in Europe is an AI company – compared with just one in 50 in 2013.
QUINT RAISES £16.5M WITH NATWEST FOR ACQUISITIONS AND REFINANCE
- 6 years 5 months ago
- M&A Deals
NORTH West headquartered Quint Group, a leading international, highly innovative fintech group operating in the consumer finance market, has secured a £16.5m financing deal from Natwest Bank. Founded in 2009, Quint is one of the fastest growing fintech businesses in Europe, with operations in the UK, US, Australia, Poland, China and South Africa.
NRI’s I-STAR/CORE updated for FSB’s Standards and Processes for Global Securities Financing Data Collection and Aggregation
- 6 years 5 months ago
- Consultancy, Infrastructure
Nomura Research Institute, Ltd. (NRI), a leading provider of consulting services and system solutions, announced today the company’s I-STAR/CORE has been updated for international Financial Stability Board (FSB)’s Standards and Processes for Global Securities Financing Data Collection and Aggregation. The system updates have been completed and NRI began offering the service on January 4th, 2019.
