NEXT Biometrics to Start Sampling Dual Interface Smart Card Solution
- 7 years 4 months ago
- SaaS, Authentication Technology
NEXT Biometrics (Oslo Bors: NEXT), a global leader in fingerprint sensor technology, today announced that it will start sampling its dual interface smart card solution (One Touch Flex CL) early in the second quarter of 2019. The solution enables NEXT's unique technology to be used with contact and contactless smart cards, including payment cards.
TNS to acquire R2G
- 7 years 4 months ago
- M&A Deals
Transaction Network Services (TNS) today announced the acquisition of Chicago-based market data, connectivity and hosting specialist R2G Services.
Grasshopper Partners with Solace for AI-powered trading
- 7 years 4 months ago
- Artificial Intelligence
Grasshopper, Singapore’s leading proprietary trading firm and liquidity provider, has expanded its deployment of the Solace PubSub+ advanced event broker to offer enhanced capabilities that use machine learning for predictive trading. Grasshopper has trusted Solace’s advanced event broker technologies as the data movement foundation of its low latency trading system since 2011.
Target and Taco Bell partner Apple for easy and secured payments
- 7 years 4 months ago
- Payments
Target, Taco Bell, Hy-Vee supermarkets in the Midwest, Speedway convenience stores and Jack in the Box are the latest merchants to support Apple Pay, the most popular mobile contactless payment system in the world that lets customers easily and securely pay in stores using their iPhone and Apple Watch. With the addition of these national retailers, 74 of the top 100 merchants in the US and 65 percent of all retail locations across the country...
Mastercard Shoppers Can Soon Tap & Go at Target
- 7 years 4 months ago
- Payments
Today, Mastercard announced its contactless cards soon will be accepted at Target stores, giving shoppers the ability to simply tap to pay. Cardholders using a contactless Mastercard—ones with a contactless symbol on them—will tap their card on the reader screen to pay and head on their way.
RESEARCH REVEALS POOR UNDERSTANDING OF BLOCKCHAIN AMONGST SENIOR BUSINESS EXECUTIVES
- 7 years 4 months ago
- Data, Infrastructure
New research amongst institutional investors from the Global Blockchain Business Council (GBBC) - the leading association for the blockchain ecosystem - reveals 63% believe senior executives at large established businesses have a poor understanding of blockchain. Only 7% described their understanding as ‘good’, with the remainder describing it as ‘average’.
Tungsten Network launches Workflow 5.0
- 7 years 4 months ago
- Banking, Accounting
Tungsten Network, the global business transaction network, has released a new version of its Workflow product. Tungsten Network Workflow automates accounts payable processes, enabling incoming invoices to be automatically routed, coded, matched, approved and posted into their Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system via an integrated connection. It offers users a single reference point from which they are able to track invoices, monitor cash...
Bankart and Nets ready to deliver on European vision of making instant payments the new normal
- 7 years 4 months ago
- Payments
Nets, a market leader in the European payments industry, and Bankart, a leading Slovenian company in the field of processing of modern payment instruments, are ready to go live with an instant payment solution in Slovenia after final approval from the Slovenian Central Bank. In February, Bankart will go live with Nets´ RealTime24/7, enabling transactions between Slovenian banks to be cleared in less than a second.
Signals Mixed for Europe’s Markets
- 7 years 4 months ago
- Infrastructure
Financial scouts note that European stock markets now face many incoming cues that are really mixed. The biggest current news on both sides of the spectrum is the Brexit uncertainty and the meaningful progress towards resolving the U.S.-China trade war.
XPS extends relationship with RiskFirst to leverage market-leading technology
- 7 years 4 months ago
- Risk Management
XPS Pensions Group, the largest purely pension consulting and administration firm in the UK, has signed an agreement with financial technology business RiskFirst to continue to deliver fast, high-quality and transparent reporting and modelling to clients through PFaroe’s comprehensive suite of analytics.
Hailo expands Series A round to $21M and launches Hailo-8™ Fast Track program for select customers
- 7 years 4 months ago
- IT Innovations, Infrastructure
Israeli startup Hailo, developers of a proprietary processing architecture for deep learning on edge devices, has expanded its Series A funding round to $21 million.
China’s Banks Continue to Consolidate Global Brand Presence
- 7 years 4 months ago
- Banking, Infrastructure
Led by ICBC as the world’s most valuable banking brand (US$79.8 billion), China’s banks dominate top four spots of the ranking Chinese banks grow 28%, achieving US$407 billion in total brand value, over US$100 billion more than US banks All US banks, with the exception of Wells Fargo (-9%), Chase (-7%), and BankUnited (-6%), improve their brand value Growth of European banks is pedestrian, with German banks losing 24% of value
Complexity heralds return of ‘back to basics’ approach in 2019 for information security professionals according to Infosecurity Europe poll
- 7 years 4 months ago
- Security
It appears that many organisations will begin the New Year by reviewing their security infrastructure and taking a ‘back to basics’ approach to information security. This is according to the latest in a series of social media polls conducted by Europe’s number one information security event, Infosecurity Europe 2019.
Independent Research Firm Recognizes Petrotechnics, a Sphera Company, as an Operational Risk Software Leader
- 7 years 4 months ago
- Risk Management
Sphera, the largest global provider of Integrated Risk Management software today announces that Petrotechnics, a Sphera company, has been named a leader in the Verdantix ORM Green Quadrant benchmark report.
As open banking is implemented across Europe, improving product agility is now a priority for 51% of European banks says report released today by Temenos
- 7 years 4 months ago
- Compliance
PSD2 and GDPR are making their presence felt in Europe. As a result European banks are prioritizing how they respond to changing customer behavior and demands (56%), new technologies (49%) and regulatory fines (46%), according to an in-depth study released today by Temenos (SIX: TEMN), the banking software company.
