UnionPay Enhances the Rollout of QR Code Payments
- 8 years 3 weeks ago
- Payments
UnionPay International is now accelerating the promotion of its innovative products and services globally. Southeast and Northeast Asia are the key target markets.
NSD and VTB Registrar Extend E-voting Capabilities
- 8 years 3 weeks ago
- Infrastructure
National Settlement Depository (NSD), Russia’s central securities depository, and VTB Registrar have signed a cooperation agreement. The parties concluded an agreement to popularize e-voting as an efficient way to ensure that shareholders exercise their rights (to manage and oversee corporations) and participate in general meetings of shareholders. As part of the agreement, the parties agreed to study the possibility of simultaneously using the...
NEX Optimisation Reveals Automated Credit Rebalancing Tool
- 8 years 3 weeks ago
- Infrastructure
NEX Optimisation, which helps clients reduce complexity and optimise resources across the transaction lifecycle, announces today that it has launched an automated credit rebalancing tool that specifically addresses limit over-allocation by prime brokers.
Ethical investments App Goodments Prepares for Launch
- 8 years 3 weeks ago
- Investment Management
Goodments is creating a more sustainable future by making it easy for people to invest in good business, with an app that matches people to shares that fit their environmental, social and ethical values.
Infosys to Create 2000 Jobs in North Carolina
- 8 years 3 weeks ago
- Consultancy
Infosys, a global leader in consulting, technology and next-generation services, today announced that it will open its next Technology and Innovation Hub in North Carolina and hire 2,000 American workers in the state by 2021.
First Data Acquires CardConnect
- 8 years 3 weeks ago
- Data
First Data Corporation, a global leader in commerce-enabling technology and solutions, and CardConnect Corp., a payment processing and technology solutions provider, today announced the successful completion of First Data’s tender offer to purchase the outstanding shares of CardConnect common stock for $15.00 per share in cash. The tender offer expired one minute after 11:59 p.m., Eastern Time, on July 5, 2017.
Diebold Nixdorf Adjusts 2017 Financial Forecasts Downwards
- 8 years 3 weeks ago
- Infrastructure
Diebold Nixdorf, Incorporated today announced it is adjusting its full-year financial outlook for 2017.
Azerbaijan Adopts Bloomberg Auction Platform for FX
- 8 years 3 weeks ago
- Foreign Exchange
The Central Bank of Azerbaijan has chosen to conduct its auctions for foreign exchange (FX) instruments and deposits through Bloomberg’s auction platform, officials announced today.
Crypto Market Data Feed Platform Santiment Closes $12m Token Sale
- 8 years 3 weeks ago
- Data
Santiment, the datafeeds platform for showing the true state of the crypto-markets, has successfully closed its two-stage token crowdsale on July 5, 2017, raising a total of $12,215,250 USD worth of ETH. Santiment raised 32,000 ETH in a preliminary community sale, followed by a pre-sale facilitated by Cofound.it’s Priority Pass community, which raised 13,000 ETH in less than 60 seconds. Santiment became the first project to partner with...
Friends First Selects Financial Risk Solutions Invest|GRCTM
- 8 years 3 weeks ago
- Risk Management
Financial Risk Solutions (FRS), a Dublin-based provider of unit-linked investment administration and compliance oversight software, is pleased to announce that Friends First, one of Ireland’s leading life assurance companies, has selected its Invest|GRCTM (Governance, Risk & Compliance) software to produce Key Information Documents (KIDs), a central requirement of the upcoming Packaged Retail and Insurance-based Investment Products (“PRIIPs...
Visa Checkout Goes Live on Air Canada
- 8 years 3 weeks ago
- Payments
Visa today announced the availability of Visa Checkout with Air Canada, Canada's largest airline. With Visa Checkout, Air Canada customers can spend more time planning their trip and less time filling out payment and billing information.
Survey: 62% of British SMEs Voted to Remain in the EU. 41% Said Brexit has Negatively Impacted their Business
- 8 years 3 weeks ago
- Infrastructure
Product sourcing’ and ‘bottom line’ have been negatively impacted the most since the drop in the pound, say SMEs 41% of over 500 SMEs surveyed said the triggering of Article 50 has had a negative impact on their business 65% said leaving the EU will not affect their ability to hire staff Product sourcing and bottom line have taken the biggest hit since the vote to leave, according to SME owners
Concurrent and Alluxio Team to Provide Scalable Data Analytics at Memory Speed
- 8 years 3 weeks ago
- Data
Concurrent, a global leader in storage, protection, transformation and delivery of visual assets, and Alluxio, developers of the world's first system that unifies data at memory speed, today announced a joint solution that
Open Banking Launches Account Information and Payment Initiation API Specifications
- 8 years 4 weeks ago
- Banking
Open Banking, the implementation entity set up by the Competition & Markets Authority (CMA) to enable a new, secure way for customers to take control of their financial data and share it with organisations other than their banks, is pleased to announce the release of its Accounts and Transaction Information and Payments Initiation API Specifications.
Thomson Reuters Launches Startup Incubator
- 8 years 4 weeks ago
- Infrastructure
Thomson Reuters today announced the launch of Thomson Reuters Labs™ – The Incubator. Located in Switzerland, the Incubator will host early-stage entrepreneurs building next-generation products in big data, advanced analytics, distributed ledgers, artificial intelligence, machine learning and other transformational technologies. As part of the official program, startups will receive access to
