Portware Commits to FX Global Code of Conduct

• 8 years 4 months ago
• Trading Systems

IHS Markit Adds Corruption, Money Laundering and Sanctions Screening to Vendor Due Diligence Service

• 8 years 4 months ago
• Infrastructure

IHS Markit, a world leader in critical information, analytics and solutions, today announced that KY3P, its vendor risk management service, added financial crimes screening to its comprehensive due diligence tools.

Mitratech Announces New Release of PolicyHub

• 8 years 4 months ago
• Compliance, Risk Management

Mitratech, the leading provider of legal, compliance and risk management software announced exciting updates to PolicyHub, its comprehensive policy management solution. With the latest PolicyHub release, clients will save significant time creating and approving policies and procedures.

Chinese travelers can now use Alipay in all Starbucks across South Korea

• 8 years 4 months ago
• Payments

Alipay, the world’s largest online and mobile payment platform operated by Ant Financial Services Group (“Ant Financial”, “Ant”), is now available for mainland Chinese travelers at over 1,150 Starbucks branches across South Korea. Alipay is the first third-party mobile based payment method enabled nationwide at Starbucks in Korea. Adding to the e

Norwich City Council Signs Deal with Advanced to Automate Financial and HR Processes

• 8 years 4 months ago
• Infrastructure

Norwich City Council has signed a five year deal with Advanced to kick-start the digital transformation of its financial and HR operations. The Crown Commercial Service agreement will see the district council implement an on-premise solution to automate and integrate its core digital processes, which will improve working practices for its staff and deliver more efficient services for its 137,000 residents.

OANDA Introduces Spreads from 0.5 on Key Indices

• 8 years 4 months ago
• Trading Systems

A global leader in online multi-asset trading services, OANDA has introduced a new pricing model for several key indices that enables clients to access spreads as low as 0.5 when they trade the AUS200, FTSE100, GER30, NAS100 and the DOW30. Designed to reduce the cost of trading indices, the new tighter spreads are available to any client trading on the OANDA V20 platform during local market hours. Clients who are currently trading on OANDA’s ...

GridGain® Helps FSB Technology Massively Scale Out and Accelerate High Performance, Real-Time Sports Betting Platform as a Service

• 8 years 4 months ago
• Infrastructure

GridGain® Systems, provider of enterprise-grade in-memory computing solutions based on Apache® Ignite(TM), today announced that London-based FSB Technology (UK) Ltd., which provides real-time sports betting platforms as a fully-managed service, is relying on GridGain Enterprise Edition to ensure real-time performance and scalability of their PostgreSQ

the multi-peril catastrophe (cat) risk modelling platform operated on the Oasis Loss Modelling Framework

• 8 years 4 months ago
• Data, Risk Management

Microsoft and Beyond.pl signed an agreement allowing Polish customers to process their data with Microsoft Azure at a local Polish data center. Data Center 2 in Poznań thus became the first Azure Stack cloud location in both Poland and Central and Eastern Europe. Beyond.pl will offer selected Azure services from Q2 2018. Joint Azure Stack offer by Microsoft and Beyond.pl opens up a new opportunity to utilise full potential of Microsoft Azure for...

SIMPLITIUM'S CAT RISK MODELLING PLATFORM EMBRACES THE OASIS ECOSYSTEM TO BRING MORE CHOICE TO (RE)INSURERS

• 8 years 4 months ago
• Risk Management

FinTech provider Simplitium, today announces the delivery of their new user interface for ModEx, the multi-peril catastrophe (cat) risk modelling platform operated on the Oasis Loss Modelling Framework (LMF). The new user interface provides firms with a centralised source for their cat model requirements via a single access point (modex.simplitium.com). There is no client-side installation required.

Ortec Finance joins Avaloq’s Software Exchange platform

• 8 years 4 months ago
• Wealth Management

Established in 1981, Ortec Finance has become a specialist in goal-based wealth planning and financial planning solutions that can be tailored for individual markets. The firm’s OPAL product is a global market leader in jurisdictions where regulation such as the Retail Distribution Review and MiFID II has had a significant impact on the wealth management sector. By using OPAL, customers benefit from sophisticated, fully integrated economic...

Hong Kong Banks Reveal QR Code Payments

• 8 years 4 months ago
• Payments

Joint Electronic Teller Services Limited (“JETCO”) today announced the launch of JETCO Pay Merchant Payment service jointly with eight banks, including Bank of Communications (Hong Kong), Bank of East Asia, Chong Hing Bank, Dah Sing Bank, ICBC (Asia), OCBC Wing Hang Bank, Shanghai Commercial Bank and Wing Lung Bank. 

Intellect Reveals Digital Debt Management System

• 8 years 4 months ago
• Banking, Insurance

Intellect Design Arena Ltd, a specialist in applying true Digital Technologies and a global leader in Financial Technology across Banking and Insurance, announced today the launch of Digital Debt Management system, IDM 18, a contemporary technology solution that can help banks and NBFIs in dramatically improving their recoveries, and reduce the stress on their financial assets.

Equifax Introduces New Chief Information Security Officer

• 8 years 4 months ago
• People Moves

Equifax Inc. today announced that it has named Jamil Farshchi to serve as its Chief Information Security Officer (CISO).  Farshchi, who previously served as CISO at The Home Depot, will assume company-wide leadership of work already underway to transform the company's information security program, and collaborate with the industry to share best practices on information security.   

Litecoin Cash - the First Litecoin Fork

• 8 years 4 months ago
• Bitcoins

Litecoin Cash has announced that the countdown has begun towards the release of a new cryptocurrency that will be born from a hard fork of Litecoin (LCC). At Litecoin block 1371111, Litecoin Cash (LCC) will be created.

Mitel Surpasses One Million Cloud Users via Service Providers in Europe

• 8 years 4 months ago
• Cloud

Mitel® (Nasdaq:  MITL) (TSX: MNW), a global leader in business communications, has reached another major milestone, surpassing one million European users for its service provider cloud solutions.