FTSE Russell to launch indicative Digital Assets Index
- 7 years 3 months ago
- Data
FTSE Russell, the global index, analytics and data provider, in association with DAR Data Services (DAR), have announced their intention to launch a new indicative FTSE Digital Assets Index. The indicative index will be used to evaluate and test a benchmark for the most actively traded digital assets. It will also help assist in the establishment of new industry standards for the digital assets market, in consultation with market participants.
MONEVO LAUNCHES CUTTING EDGE PERSONAL LOAN API & TECHNOLOGY TO GIVE CONSUMERS PERSONALISED COMPARISON EXPERIENCE
- 7 years 3 months ago
- Banking, Infrastructure
MONEVO LAUNCHES CUTTING EDGE PERSONAL LOAN API & TECHNOLOGY TO GIVE CONSUMERS PERSONALISED COMPARISON EXPERIENCE MONEVO, Europe’s largest personal loan market place and platform, has launched Credit Staq for the UK market; a cutting-edge tech solution which gives consumers access to a comparison of pre-approved lending options from across the whole market.
BUSINESSES LOSE £93M TO INVOICE SCAMS IN 2018 BUT FOUR IN TEN UNAWARE OF RISK
- 7 years 3 months ago
- Security, Risk Management
Over four in ten businesses in the UK are unaware of the risks posed by invoice fraud, despite these scams costing firms almost £93 million in 2018, research by UK Finance has revealed.
HashKey International Digital Asset Summit 2019 brings together industry leaders to demonstrate how digital assets are entering the mainstream
- 7 years 3 months ago
- Infrastructure
More than 600 delegates attended the inaugural HashKey International Digital Asset Summit 2019 (HIDA2019) to hear leading experts discuss how blockchain technology is beginning to transform how we work, live and play in the same way that widespread adoption of the internet changed the world.
New EIU study: Asian firms are better prepared than European peers to comply with data-privacy regulations
- 7 years 3 months ago
- Compliance
Firms in China and South-east Asia are more confident than those in Europe to deal with potentially stricter rules around consumer-data gathering and use; the US leads both regions Asian companies may be ahead of the ethics curve: companies in China and South-east Asia are more likely to tie data-privacy practices to good corporate governance than those in the West This comes amid the increasing importance of data privacy to organisations today...
Chase Reveals Chase Secure Banking, a Low Cost Checking Account to Increase Access to Banking
- 7 years 3 months ago
- Banking
Chase is launching Chase Secure Banking, a low cost checking account in order to provide access a traditional banking relationship for more consumers around the country, including those new to banking or who have had trouble getting or keeping an account in the past. The new account, available to customers today, comes with a low monthly service fee of $4.95 and all the benefits of Chase, like access to thousands of fee free Chase ATMs, Chase’...
Central Bank of Ireland Accepts EquiLend MTF
- 7 years 3 months ago
- Trading Systems
EquiLend Limited, the Dublin-based business of global securities finance technology provider EquiLend was approved by The Central Bank of Ireland to operate a multilateral trading facility (MTF) in Ireland. The launch of the Irish MTF—EquiLend’s NGT securities finance trading platform—will allow European Union-based clients to continue trading on the platform without interruption post-Brexit. The Irish MTF will operate alongside EquiLend’s...
Nuance Biometrics Security Suite Saves Enterprises $1B in Fraud in 2018
- 7 years 3 months ago
- Authentication Technology
Nuance Communications, Inc. today announced Nuance’s biometrics-based Security Suite saved organizations more than $1 billion in total fraud costs in 2018 while enabling an easier, frictionless way for customers to validate their identities and access service.
Kofax introduces automated process discovery and robotic lifecycle management
- 7 years 3 months ago
- IT Innovations, Infrastructure
Kofax, a leading supplier of Intelligent Automation software to automate and digitally transform enterprise business processes, announces the availability of Kofax Robotic Process Automation (RPA) 10.4, the latest version of the Kofax RPA solution that now includes Automatic Process Discovery and Robotic Lifecycle Management with Git (an open source version-control system for tracking programing changes).
NetSuite Makes Support for UK’s Making Tax Digital Initiative Easy
- 7 years 3 months ago
- Payments, Infrastructure
Making Tax Digital (MTD), the HMRC initiative that requires UK businesses to submit their tax returns and payments online while also keeping digital records of their taxes, becomes mandatory from 1st April 2019 with businesses required to submit from a list of HMRC compliant software (of which NetSuite is one) or an API-enabled spreadsheet.
Pzena Investment Management Signs for EDM from IHS Markit
- 7 years 3 months ago
- Investment Management, Infrastructure
IHS Markit, a world leader in critical information, analytics and solutions, today announced that Pzena Investment Management, LLC, a $37 billion equity manager based in New York has signed for its Enterprise Data Management (EDM) solution.
Solactive partners with CoinMarketCap to create Cryptocurrency Benchmark Indices
- 7 years 3 months ago
- Cryptocurrencies, Infrastructure
Solactive is pleased to announce that internationally renowned cryptocurrency information and data provider CoinMarketCap (CMC) joined forces with the German index provider to create new Cryptocurrency Benchmark Indices, labeled: CMC Crypto 200 Index – powered by Solactive.
Safeguarding Consumers from Counterfeit Goods
- 7 years 3 months ago
- Payments
As e-commerce options have grown exponentially, consumers are increasingly buying everything from food to medicine, apparel to designer goods through online retailers and marketplaces. While the vast majority of purchases online result in a satisfied customer, occasionally cardholders inadvertently purchase an inferior “fake” product.
12 financial institutions have signed up to Avaloq’s PSD2 solution to meet March deadline
- 7 years 3 months ago
- Compliance
Global fintech leader Avaloq has announced that 12 financial institutions have signed up to its dedicated Second Payment Services Directive (PSD2) solution to meet the 14 March deadline. The firm launched the service at the end of last year to help banks and wealth managers meet the requirements of ꟷ and capitalise on ꟷ PSD2 and the need to work seamlessly with third party payment service providers.
FICO Survey: UK Car Buyers Shifting Toward Online Financing
- 7 years 3 months ago
- P2P Lending, Data, Infrastructure
Car buyers in the UK are finding more of their financing online. That data comes from the second annual survey on auto financing conducted by leading analytic software firm FICO, which showed that:
