Team Pulse OS from the University of Toronto Wins SWIFT Institute university Challenge
- 7 years 7 months ago
- Infrastructure
Team Pulse OS from the University of Toronto were announced as the winners of the SWIFT Institute Student Challenge 2017 at the closing plenary session of Sibos in Toronto. Javier Perez-Tasso, Chief Executive for the Americas and UK Region, SWIFT, presented team leader Nataliya Mykhaylova with a 20,000 CAD award.
Northern Trust: Transparency in Alternative Assets Requires ‘Collaborative Partnership’ between Investors and Asset Managers
- 7 years 7 months ago
- Security
Northern Trust today announced the release of a white paper that outlines key steps investment managers and investors can take to potentially achieve greater transparency in alternative investments such as hedge funds, private equity, infrastructure, real estate and natural resources. The paper, Alts Transparency: Finding the Right Balance, is a follow-up to an industry-wide survey conducted earlier this year by The Economist Intelligence Unit...
Xpress Money to showcase ‘Flex’, ‘One’ & ‘Biz’, its customisable business solutions at Money2020 in Las Vegas
- 7 years 7 months ago
- Money Transfers
Xpress Money – one of the world’s most dependable money transfer brands – is set to showcase Xpress Money ‘Flex’, ‘One’ and ‘Biz’, its customisable remittance solutions, at Money2020 – the world’s largest marketplace for ideas, connections and deals in Payments and Financial Services. Xpress Money’s business solutions are designed to give organisations customisable options based on their business needs.
SWIFT enhances connectivity to VPS, the Norwegian Central Securities Depository
- 7 years 7 months ago
- Securities Services, Banking
SWIFT will reinforce its connectivity to Verdipapirsentralen ASA (VPS), Norway’s central securities depository (CSD), which could make a shift in transaction volume to SwiftNet from other networks. Banks connected to VPS currently use different networks to connect to VPS, SwiftNet being one of them. The banks have the freedom to choose among the network connectivity offered by VPS. By signing the Swift CSD Community Agreement, VPS’s members...
Concurrent Achieves Sales Milestone for Zephyr Transcode
- 7 years 7 months ago
- Asset Management
Concurrent (NASDAQ:CCUR), a global leader in storage, protection, transformation, and delivery of visual media assets, announced today that Zephyr Transcode, which Concurrent launched last year as an integral part of its content delivery network (CDN) solutions, is now deployed with customers in Asia, Europe and North America.
Panduit Opens London Customer Briefing Centre
- 7 years 7 months ago
- Data
Panduit EMEA, the data centre physical infrastructure and connectivity company, has opened its new UK Customer Briefing and Demonstration Centre in London. The new facility, based in the heart of the City, provides 200m2 of data centre, enterprise and industrial automation demonstration, conference and office space. This facility doubles the space available in the previous London site and expands the company’s customer experience capabilities in...
Daon Reveals Biometrics to Visa ID Intelligence Scheme
- 7 years 7 months ago
- Security
Daon, an innovator of authentication and identity assurance solutions worldwide, announced today that it has been selected by Visa, the global payments technology company, to provide biometric services for the Visa ID Intelligence platform.
SAXO PAYMENTS BANKING CIRCLE MARKETPLACES HELPS FINANCIAL TECH BUSINESSES ADDRESS PSD2 REGULATION FOR ONLINE MARKETPLACES
- 7 years 7 months ago
- Payments, Banking
Changes brought about under the latest Payment Services Directive, PSD2, mean that Marketplaces will no longer be exempt. For Marketplaces to remain exempt under PSD2, they should act only on behalf of the payer or the payee or not at any time enter into possession or control of client funds. Addressing this challenge, Saxo Payments has launched Banking Circle Marketplaces which enables Financial Tech businesses to help their Marketplace...
Azimo’s Momentum Continues with Triple-Digit Growth As Online Remittance Booms
- 7 years 7 months ago
- Infrastructure
Azimo, the leading online money transfer business, today announced triple-digit growth across virtually every metric-including transactions sent, gross transaction volume, and revenue-as online remittances from the diverse communities of Europe to the rest-of-the-world booms. For example, over the past 12 months, Azimo saw a 236% increase in the amount of money sent to Poland, with Moldova (225%) and Nigeria (207%) following closely behind.
The Streak Continues: KICKICO Tokens Land on Leading Bitcoin Exchange
- 7 years 7 months ago
- Blockchain, Bitcoins
Just one month after shattering its Initial Coin Offering (ICO) goal and successfully thwarting hackers, blockchain startup KICKICO’s streak continues with the October 22 launch of its KICK Tokens on the HitBTC exchange. It’s a move that crypto enthusiasts have been waiting for ever since the fully launched 3-in-1 blockchain ICO crowdfunding and crowd investing platform closed its ICO on Sept. 16. KICKICO raised $12 million in ETH within just...
Kx Technology Selected to Power E-commerce AI Platform for Scientific Revenue
- 7 years 7 months ago
- Artificial Intelligence
Kx selected as Scientific Revenue' s real-time analytics platform for online dynamic pricing - Using Machine Learning and Applied Artificial Intelligence, Scientific Revenue's platform analyses the behaviour of millions of users and applies machine learning techniques to increase revenue for its mobile gaming customers
More than Half of UK Public Think Fraud is Inevitable When Shopping Online and Want Business to Heighten Security Measures
- 7 years 7 months ago
- Fraud Detection
More than half (52 percent) of UK consumers think fraud is an inevitable part of shopping online, according to new research conducted by Paysafe, a leading global payments provider.
TORSTONE TECHNOLOGY STRENGTHENS ITS PRESENCE IN JAPAN
- 7 years 7 months ago
- Trading Systems
Torstone Technology, a leading global provider of post-trade securities and derivatives processing, today announced that CLSA, a leading Asian capital markets and investment group, has signed a multi-year deal to use Inferno and is now live with the solution, which will bring greater efficiencies to its post-trade processes.
OTC Market Leaders OnGuard and Credit Tools Merge to Become Onguard
- 7 years 7 months ago
- M&A Deals
At the end of last year OnGuard and Credit Tools, two leading credit management software suppliers, announced that they were merging. The company that has resulted from this merger is called Onguard, a pioneering FinTech company which acts as a strategic partner for clients throughout the entire order to cash process. With a fresh focus on innovation, Onguard is ready to make big steps in achieving worldwide ambitions.
Red Deer Integrates with Insitinet's RQ Connect
- 7 years 7 months ago
- Payments
Red Deer, a next-generation financial technology company dedicated to enhancing the performance of active investment managers, today announces a strategic partnership with Instinet Europe Limited to provide an integrated solution to seamlessly manage research inducement, consumption, valuation, payment and commission management under the new MiFID II regime.
