myGini launches loyalty app for European financial service organizations
- 8 years 1 month ago
- Payments, FinTech StartUps
Today myGini Inc., a San Francisco-based provider of leading-edge software solutions for the fintech sector, has launched its state-of-the-art consumer loyalty engine into the European financial services market. myGini is the first integrated payments and shopping app to provide financial institutions with their own easily installed reward program triggered by MasterCard and Visa card transactions. It allows banks to increase customer loyalty...
Moody’s upgrades Atlantica Yield’s Credit Rating to Ba3 with Positive Outlook
- 8 years 1 month ago
- Infrastructure
Atlantica Yield plc (NASDAQ: AY) (“Atlantica”), the sustainable total return company that owns a diversified portfolio of contracted assets in the energy and environment sectors, announced today that Moody’s Investors Service (“Moody’s”) upgraded its Corporate Family Rating by one notch to Ba3 from B1, with positive outlook.
After regulatory dust settles asset managers focus on wave of new technologies
- 8 years 1 month ago
- Data
The results of Linedata’s eighth global asset management survey reveal a shifting focus away from regulation as companies prepare for a new wave of demands and opportunities afforded by disruptive technologies.
Starling creates Google Play in-app
- 8 years 1 month ago
- Banking
Starling Bank, the leading mobile-only bank recently voted Britain’s Best Bank 2018, today brings its customers an enhancement to Google Pay, the fast, simple way to pay in millions of places - online, in stores - and more.
FMSB publishes statement of good practice on information sharing in fixed income markets
- 8 years 1 month ago
- Consultancy
The FICC Markets Standards Board (“FMSB”) today publishes a Transparency Draft of a new Statement of Good Practice on Information and Confidentiality for fixed income and commodities markets.
Breaches in Automated Expense Management Cause Fraud Spikes
- 8 years 1 month ago
- Security and Compliance, Security
Age, job level and reporting procedures all correlate strongly with the propensity to commit expense fraud, according to data from Chrome River Technologies, Inc., a global leader in expense and invoice automation solutions. Based on a survey of more than 1,200 business travelers in the U.S., U.K. and Australia, conducted in April and May 2018, expense fraud could potentially cost American organizations $1.9 billion per year.
Probanx and Sequrest partner to create collective cybersecurity tech
- 8 years 1 month ago
- IT Innovations
Sequrest, the cybersecurity specialist has announced that it has signed an agreement with Probanx, supplier of web-based solutions to the banking sector.
JCB expands to Russia
- 8 years 1 month ago
- Banking
JSC Russian Agriculture Bank ("RSHB") and JCB International Co., Ltd., the international operations subsidiary of JCB Co., Ltd., are pleased to announce the launch of JCB card acceptance on the RSHB ATM and POS terminal network.
Moscow’s Innovation Hub chooses CIPURSE Specification for Fare Collection Solution
- 8 years 1 month ago
- Technical
Global technical association, OSPT Alliance, today announces that its open, non-proprietary CIPURSE™ standard has been selected for a new automated fare collection solution trial across Moscow’s Skolkovo bus route. The trial will provide a secure and cost-effective ticketing solution for travelers between Moscow City’s business district and the city’s famed start-up and innovation hub, Skolkovo.
Workday Announces Fiscal 2019 First Quarter Financial Results
- 8 years 1 month ago
- Cloud
Workday, Inc. (NASDAQ:WDAY), a leader in enterprise cloud applications for
'AirPod' aims to revolutionise travellers airport experience
- 8 years 1 month ago
- Technical
AirPod, the cutting-edge airport sleeping pod, today announces the launch of its beta prototype, in preparation for the first commercial trial to be implemented in EU airports in autumn 2018.
Financial services investment in customer experience questioned as annual complaints rise
- 8 years 1 month ago
- Investment Management
The total number of complaints against financial service institutions has increased, despite investment in customer service processes. Complaints data from Financial Ombudsman Service revealed a rise from 1,456,396 between 2017/2018 up from 1,394,379 the year before.
DSB Announces Technology Advisory Committee Membership
- 8 years 1 month ago
- Infrastructure
The Derivatives Service Bureau today announced the members of its newly formed Technology Advisory Committee (TAC). The mission of the TAC is to provide guidance and recommendations to the DSB Board on technology implementation and investment to support the DSB role as a critical market infrastructure for providing financial instrument identifiers. As part of the DSB governance structure, it will also enable the DSB to sample industry sentiment...
Mastercard launches Accelerate: continuing to unleash the potential of Fintechs
- 8 years 1 month ago
- Payments, FinTech StartUps
Mastercard today announces the creation of Accelerate, a new programme to drive growth at scale for the fast-evolving FinTech industry. The initiative is designed to support the ambitions of players in the FinTech sector through tailored support arrangements including access to insight, tools, technology and investment to support innovation. Designed to operate alongside the successful Start Path programme, Accelerate broadens and deepens...
GlobalData announces OTT voice application penetration in Latin America will more than double to 2020, while service revenues decline
- 8 years 1 month ago
- Data
Mobile voice service revenue in Latin America (LATAM) will decline from $33.7bn in 2017 to $27.1bn by 2020, with a negative Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 7.0% between 2017 and 2020, due to the growing adoption of over-the-top (OTT) voice applications such as Skype, WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger, according to
