Accenture to acquire First Annapolis
- 7 years 1 week ago
- Payments, Consultancy
Accenture (ACN) has agreed to acquire First Annapolis Consulting, Inc., a privately held payments consulting and advisory firm, further expanding its capabilities in the payments market. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
DueDil assigns Alan Millard as chairman
- 7 years 1 week ago
- Platform Technology
Today DueDil, the company information platform, reported the appointment of Alan Millard as Chairman of the company’s board, with immediate effect.
CFPB fines Experian $3 million for decieving consumers in marketing credit scores
- 7 years 1 week ago
- Infrastructure
Today the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) took action against Experian and its subsidiaries for deceiving consumers about the use of credit scores it sold to consumers. Experian claimed the credit scores it marketed and provided to consumers were used by lenders to make credit decisions. In fact, lenders did not use Experian’s scores to make those decisions. The CFPB ordered Experian to truthfully represent how its credit scores are...
Misys to host BIAN Open Day in London
- 7 years 1 week ago
- Banking
Misys is pleased to be hosting the Banking Industry Architecture Network (BIAN) Open Day on 28th March 2017 in London. The free event, open for everybody in the industry, will focus on strategic change in Europe, bringing together challenger and established banks to explore this critical topic, amidst the impending arrival of PSD2.
Gemalto Wins 2017 Cybersecurity Excellence Award for Best Encryption Product
- 7 years 1 week ago
- Security, Data Protection
Gemalto (Euronext NL0000400653 GTO), the world leader in digital security, announces that they have been named a winner of the 2017 Cybersecurity Excellence Awards. Gemalto's SafeNet KeySecure was voted "best encryption product" by over 300,000 members of the global information security community.
SEC Shortens Settlement Cycle for Securities Transactions
- 7 years 1 week ago
- Security
The Securities and Exchange Commission today adopted an amendment to shorten by one business day the standard settlement cycle for most broker-dealer securities transactions. Currently, the standard settlement cycle for these transactions is three business days, known as T+3. The amended rule shortens the settlement cycle to two business days, T+2. The amended rule is designed to enhance efficiency, reduce risk, and ensure a coordinated and...
Ullink Introduces MiFID II Trade Reporting Solution
- 7 years 1 week ago
- Data, Audit and Reporting
Multi-asset solution will enable firms to comply with post-trade transparency rules set to come into force in 2018 Ullink, a global provider of electronic trading and connectivity solutions to the financial community, has launched its MiFID II compliant trade reporting solution to help its clients meet regulatory requirements for greater accuracy in reporting and timeliness of data collection.
Trumid Strengthens Its Team and Technology Offering by Acquiring Electronifie
- 7 years 1 week ago
- M&A Deals
Trumid, a financial technology company that improves trading efficiency and market intelligence in the corporate bond market, today announced that it has reached a definitive agreement to acquire fellow all-to-all trading platform, Electronifie. The acquisition will increase the size and diversity of the Trumid user network and strengthen Trumid’s team and technology offering. Following a regulatory approval process, Trumid expects the...
SAP Ariba Partners Everledger to Get the Best of Blockchain
- 7 years 1 week ago
- Blockchain
Blockchain is among the most disruptive technologies of the day. From banking and insurance to agriculture, energy, healthcare, and media, it is shaking-up entire industries and is about to transform global supply chains, thanks to SAP Ariba. The company today unveiled plans to leverage blockchain across its cloud-based applications and business network to upend the way goods and services are traded.
WorldRemit Joins Forces With KCB to Power Money Transfers to Kenya
- 7 years 1 week ago
- Money Transfers
Digital money transfer service WorldRemit and KCB, the largest bank in East and Central Africa, have partnered to create a new instant option to send remittances to Kenya. Announced at an investment event for Kenyan and African diaspora at the Royal Overseas League in London, the partnership aims to support the growing demand for instant, digital remittances among more than 3 million Kenyans currently living abroad. Kenyans living around the...
İşbank Introduces Digital Mortgage Experience for Their Clients
- 7 years 1 week ago
- Banking, Online Banking
Having developed many products and services that served as milestones for the Turkish banking sector throughout its long history, İşbank continues its innovations in line with digital vision defined as being a lifetime partner to customers, designing an end to end digital banking experience and creating additional value for each and every single customer’s lives.
Burton-taylor Hires Andy Nybo as Director of Exchange Vertical
- 7 years 1 week ago
- People Moves
Burton-Taylor International Consulting, a division of TP ICAP’s data & analytics group and a leading provider of market research, analytics and business consulting, has welcomed Andy Nybo as Director of its Exchange Vertical research practice. In heading up the exchange and transaction venue research division, Andy will be building out Burton-Taylor’s comprehensive analysis of current and historical exchange share, demand segmentation and...
Debitos Unveils Secondary Debt Market for Transaction Advisors
- 7 years 1 week ago
- Transaction Banking, Investment
The Frankfurt-based FinTech company, Debitos, is opening its successful secondary debt market platform to third parties
Rentivo Exceeds Crowdfunding Target by 36%
- 7 years 1 week ago
- Management, Crowdfunding
Today Rentivo, a vacation rental marketing and management software company, announced it has successfully oversubscribed its CrowdCube.com crowdfunding campaign, raising £341K/$425K and exceeding its goal by 36%. The funds will be used to accelerate technology development, sales and marketing.
AIT enhances its leading position in IT infrastructure & digital transformation
- 7 years 1 week ago
- IT Innovations, Infrastructure
AIT Partnership Group Ltd has won the tender for 2 lots on the CPC framework for ICT Solutions and Supply of Network Infrastructure. CPC is a purchasing consortium, owned and run by the FE sector. They provide members with specialist advice on best spending practices and how to obtain best value for money. AIT has been selected as suppler on Lot 4, Networking Equipment and Services and Lot 6 Maintenance Installation and Support.