Blue Prism Secures £100 Million in New Funding
- 6 years 6 months ago
- Investment
Blue Prism announced today it has raised £100 million from existing and new investors, placing it in a strong position in the current economic climate. The funding will be used to further strengthen and protect Blue Prism’s balance sheet during a period of uncertainty for the wider economy, while allowing continued investment in the innovation of its dedicated enterprise intelligent automation suite.
Why ESG is more important now than ever
- 6 years 6 months ago
- Covid-19
Stakeholders need to survive, and these stakeholders are represented in ESG. The current pandemic is highlighting this fact with significant E, S and G related decisions being made daily including everything from executive pay, dividends and share buybacks, to employee healthcare, employee lay-offs, and even food insecurity.
Cloud-computing solutions can help significantly to reduce banking costs in Africa
- 6 years 6 months ago
- Banking, Cloud
More than 700 million Africans lack access to a bank or mobile money account and only 41% of Africans are financially included. This is due to the high cost of providing financial services in Africa which forces many financial services providers to remain focused on serving wealthier customers.
Bokio announces €7.4M investment and joins forces with competitor, Red Flag, to create the leading accountancy and business administration platform for European SMEs and self-employed
- 6 years 6 months ago
- Artificial Intelligence, Accounting
Bokio (www.bokio.co.uk), the Gothenburg-born fintech behind an AI-driven accounting software for SMEs and self-employed, today announces that it has merged with Stockholm-based competitor, Red Flag (www.redflag.se).
University of Oxford and Mastercard collaborate to launch course for senior executives
- 6 years 6 months ago
- Payments, Security, IT Innovations, Risk Management
SaïdBusiness School, University of Oxford and Mastercard today announce the launch of anew Oxford Cyber Futures online programme aimed at equipping senior executives to address new cyber risks and opportunities – among the most significant industrial and societal challenges of the 21stcentury – using next-generation learning tools.
IBM and Fenergo Join Forces To Fight Financial Crime
- 6 years 6 months ago
- Financial
Fenergo, the leading provider of digital transformation, customer journey and client lifecycle management (CLM) solutions for financial institutions, and IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced the signing of an original equipment manufacturing (OEM) agreement that will allow the companies to collaborate on solutions that can help clients better manage the multitude of financial risks they may face.
Quantile Continues To Operate Without Disruption By Leveraging AWS
- 6 years 6 months ago
- Cloud
Quantile Technologies (Quantile), a leading provider of multilateral optimisation services, today announced that its early adoption of cloud technology has ensured the continued operation of its interest rate compression and margin optimisation services, which are fundamental to reducing risk and improving liquidity in the global derivatives markets.
Yemen’s Fastest Growing Bank Selects Temenos
- 6 years 6 months ago
- Open Banking, Banking
Temenos (SIX: TEMN), the banking software company, today announced that Yemen-based, Al Kuraimi Islamic Bank (KIB), has selected Temenos Infinity and Temenos Transact to replace its legacy IT systems and deploy a single, cloud-native, cloud-agnostic digital banking platform to underpin its banking operations. KIB is one of the Yemen’s top 5 banks, with 1.2 million customers and it aims to reach 5 million customers by 2023.
ZUBR’s Crypto Derivatives Platform Enables Faster Access to Leading Exchanges with Avelacom
- 6 years 6 months ago
- Trading Systems
ZUBR, the arbitrage hub for digital asset derivatives, has selected Avelacom to provide low latency and resilient connectivity services across major cryptocurrency markets in Europe and APAC. Through Avelacom’s network, the ZUBR platform will be able to offer its clients direct connectivity to crypto exchanges, as well as the ability to easily scale its ecosystem and connect clients through AWS, Alibaba, Google and Microsoft Azure clouds to...
daVinci Payments Brings Video, Behavior Offers and Loyalty Enrollment to Payments with Brand Accelerator
- 6 years 6 months ago
- Payments, Cloud
daVinci Payments announced the launch of Brand Accelerator, a first-of-its-kind Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform designed to make payments a seamless branded experience for recipients—from beginning to beyond the point of payment. The launch of Brand Accelerator demonstrates daVinci’s commitment to offering branded payments that generate greater value through enhanced engagement.
Soldo Care cards help governments, local authorities and NGOs distribute emergency funds amid covid-19 outbreak
- 6 years 6 months ago
- Covid-19, Payments
Amid growing global poverty concerns in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, leading spend management platform Soldo has launched a new solution Soldo Care to enable governments, local authorities, and NGOs to distribute emergency aid to vulnerable citizens via Mastercard® prepaid cards. The Municipality of Milan, which governs an estimated 1.3 million citizens, is the first authority to adopt the cards.
ZUBR’s Crypto Derivatives Platform Enables Faster Access to Leading Exchanges with Avelacom
- 6 years 6 months ago
- Trading Systems
ZUBR, the arbitrage hub for digital asset derivatives, has selected Avelacom to provide low latency and resilient connectivity services across major cryptocurrency markets in Europe and APAC. Through Avelacom’s network, the ZUBR platform will be able to offer its clients direct connectivity to crypto exchanges, as well as the ability to easily scale its ecosystem and connect clients through AWS, Alibaba, Google and Microsoft Azure clouds to...
A new currency for charitable giving with the launch of For Good Causes
- 6 years 6 months ago
- Financial
For Good Causes -the UK-based fin-tech company - today officially launches its innovative new scheme which is set to transform the way consumers and retailers donate to charity.
Avaloq named a Leader in Everest Group’s 2020 Wealth Management PEAK Matrix® Assessment
- 6 years 6 months ago
- Wealth Management
Avaloq has been named a Leader in the Wealth Management Operations Services PEAK Matrix® Assessment 2020 by Everest Group. The assessment, an objective, industry-recognized evaluation of technology companies in the wealth management space, is used by financial services institutions to make critical decisions about global services providers.
Announcing Appian World 2020 Virtual Edition - May 12 - 13, 2020
- 6 years 6 months ago
- Security, IT Innovations, Infrastructure
Appian (NASDAQ: APPN) will host Appian World 2020 Virtual Edition on May 12 and 13, 2020. This year’s virtual event gives every attendee the best seat in the house for the world’s premier conference on low-code automation. Register for free at https://ap.pn/3crB7qw.
