Santander InnoVentures appoints senior adviser to strengthen Silicon Valley foothold
- 6 years 10 months ago
- People Moves
Santander InnoVentures, Santander Group’s global corporate venture capital fund, has appointed Chris Gottschalk as a senior adviser to lead the $200M fund’s strategic direction in the US. Chris is based in San Francisco and brings extensive venture capital experience to the team.
Oracle Adds AI Smarts to Increase Oracle ERP Cloud’s Market Lead
- 6 years 10 months ago
- Artificial Intelligence, Cloud
Oracle has extended the artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities within Oracle Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Cloud and Oracle Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) Cloud. The latest machine learning-based innovations include an expense reporting assistant, project management digital assistant, advanced financial controls and project-driven supply chain management.
New Survey from Money20/20 Examines Gender Diversity and Inclusivity in Finance in the Asia-Pacific Region
- 6 years 10 months ago
- Infrastructure
Money20/20 today announced the results of its second industry-wide diversity survey, used to gain a greater understanding of gender dynamics and perceptions across companies in the Asia-Pacific region within the Financial Services ecosystem. This research is part of the Money20/20 programme Rise-Up, a global initiative with local perspective, designed to provide support and provide actionable skills for women looking to take the next steps to...
Surecomp Hosts Future-Focused Summit for Asian Clients
- 6 years 10 months ago
- Infrastructure
Surecomp, the global trade finance fintech leader, hosted a series of client summits between March 11-14, 2019. The Asia Client Summit was made up various one-day events in Hong Kong, Singapore and Bangkok, Thailand respectively. The summit was attended by delegates from over a dozen Asia-based Surecomp client banks and affiliates. The Asia Client Summit featured presentations about Surecomp’s new digital offering and updates to their core-...
MYPINPAD Launches Innovative Authenticator Platform with AimBrain
- 6 years 10 months ago
- Security, Authentication Technology
MYPINPAD, the global leader in secure customer authentication solutions, has launched an authenticator platform to allow financial institutions to freely develop PSD2 compliant solutions in a secure sandbox environment. The proposition is strengthened through a collaboration between MYPINPAD and AimBrain, a leader in biometric authentication for fraud prevention, the result being an unrivalled solution for banks and PSPs to seamlessly meet PSD2...
Andrew Raymond appointed as new CEO of Bolero International
- 6 years 10 months ago
- People Moves
Bolero International announces that Andrew Raymond has been appointed as its new CEO. Andrew joined Bolero in August 2017 as Global Sales Head and is now taking the CEO role with the mission to bring to market new and innovative client solutions which leverage the Bolero capabilities and address the current and emerging market opportunities.
EMQ and Visa Team Up to Offer Cross-border Remittances across Asia Pacific
- 6 years 10 months ago
- Payments, Infrastructure
EMQ, a leading cross-border settlement network in Asia and Visa (NYSE:V) today announced a strategic partnership to offer crossborder remittances across Asia Pacific. This partnership pairs the capabilities of EMQ’s extensive network and Visa‘s real-time1 push payments platform, Visa Direct, to offer customers superior cross-border solutions with greater choice, transparency, and flexibility.
300 delegates from Banking and Financial Services to convene at Finnovex
- 6 years 10 months ago
- Banking
Finnovex Middle East is set to take place on March 19, 2019 with an aim to bolster Innovations in the Financial Services Space
Banking Innovation Moves Beyond Fintech
- 6 years 10 months ago
- Banking
Enterprise Ireland, the Irish government agency responsible for trade and innovation, has today announced it is embarking on a fourth 16-week City Insights Programme with partner, the London Irish Business Society (LIBS). Following another successful programme in 2017 and popular demand for new inclusions, the 2019 programme has been extended to incorporate two further sectors, Digital Tech and Talent Tech. The programme’s finalists are divided...
Fintech Trends to keep an eye out for
- 6 years 10 months ago
- Infrastructure
Fintech is an emerging industry which centres the utilization of technology to improve activities in finance, it rivals conventional money related strategies. The essential objective is to replace or enhance the usage of financial services. Disruption in the conventional banking and financial service space is igniting innovative trends, the trends to watch out for are listed below.
ValidSoft appoints Mac Parra as US Regional Vice President
- 6 years 10 months ago
- SaaS, Authentication Technology
ValidSoft, a voice biometric and multi-factor authentication SaaS company today announced the appointment of Mac Parra as its Western US Regional Vice President. Mac holds a wealth of knowledge with over 20 years’ of sales experience in the technology and cyber security industries. Prior to joining ValidSoft, Mac served as Sales Director for seven years with Accenture, followed by five years at Parasoft. Most recently he served as the Vice...
PPRO launches new improved edition of The PPRO Payment Almanac – the most complete overview of LPMs available to date
- 6 years 10 months ago
- Payments
PPRO , the cross-border e-payment specialist, in collaboration with Edgar, Dunn and Company, is today announcing PPRO’s new and improved Payment Almanac 2.0 is now available both online and in-print for PPRO’s customers and partners. The new and updated Almanac is the most complete guide to the complex and evolving world of local payment methods.
Cobalt strengthens team as it moves ahead to re-engineer the FX market
- 6 years 10 months ago
- Foreign Exchange
Cobalt, the foreign exchange (FX) infrastructure based on shared ledger and high performance technology, has hired five experienced professionals to lead its drive to re-engineer the FX market. Post-trade FX is currently riddled with complex legacy systems and manual processes, creating unnecessary cost and risk across the market. The new hires bring a wealth of FX experience to the company and will play an important role in the rollout of...
VSoft introduces new core banking system
- 6 years 10 months ago
- Banking
VSoft Corporation, a global leader in providing information and technology solutions for financial institutions, announced the launch of Wings, an all new, flexible and comprehensive core processing system built on advanced browser-based technologies.
Token 2049: Ethereum Supermeetup 2019 Recap
- 6 years 10 months ago
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrencies
As part of the Token 2049 event, the Ethereum Supermeetup 2019 is the first of its kind held at the luxurious Kerry Hotel in Hongkong last March 13-14. People need to know what the future of Ethereum’s development would look like. Token 2049 is one of the biggest crypto and blockchain conferences held in Hongkong. Several crypto companies and startups from various countries gathered together for this annual blockchain event.
