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Spire Payments, Payneteasy and Cassby roll-out mPOS in Russia

8 years 11 months ago
Payments

Spire Payments team with Payneteasy to launch innovative integrated mPOS solution.

Qatar Stock Exchange Names Aisha Al Mahmoud IT Director

8 years 11 months ago
Foreign Exchange

Ms. Aisha Abdul Rahman Al Mahmoud has been appointed as Director of Information Technology Department in QSE in a step emphasizing the keenness to appoint outstanding Qatari competencies and supporting the important role played by Qatari women in the development of the State of Qatar.

Singapore Establishes Payments Council

8 years 11 months ago
Payments

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) announced today that it will establish a Payments Council, comprising 20 leaders from banks, payment service providers, businesses, and trade associations.

NCino Signs Up 100th Customer

8 years 11 months ago
Banking

nCino, the worldwide leader in cloud banking, has announced that Pacific Western Bank, headquartered in Beverly Hills, Calif., is the 100th customer to go live with its Bank Operating System.

Barings Provides Financing for Battery Ventures' Add-on Acquisition of Rotronic AG

8 years 11 months ago
Infrastructure

Barings, a leading global financial services firm with $288 billion in assets under management, announced today that it acted as mandated lead arranger of a senior secured, multi-currency credit facility to support Battery Ventures' continued buildout of its process-measurement platform through its acquisition of Rotronic AG.

Fidor supports the first-of-its-kind Student Academy Programme in Singapore

8 years 11 months ago
Banking, IT Innovations

The five local polytechnics have partnered with Fidor the leading digital banking group, to launch a FinTech education curriculum that costs close to S$800,000 (about €500,000) to develop and an additional yearly sum of about S$160,000 (€100,000) to run. This is the first time Fidor has introduced such a programme in the APAC region, with the aim to help boost Singapore’s growth as a FinTech Hub in this region.

Deutsche Börse Regulatory Reporting Hub partners with RegTek.Solutions and Risk Focus for MiFID II

8 years 11 months ago
Regulatory Standards

The Regulatory Reporting Hub of Deutsche Börse Group has launched a partnership with Risk Focusand its software subsidiary,

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is more important to IoT than Big Data insights

8 years 11 months ago
Artificial Intelligence

For enterprise software, operational efficiency trumps superfluous features. When it comes to optimising these applications, however, particularly for the Internet of Things (IoT), enterprises need to focus their efforts on the basics of business optimization rather than insight driven innovation.

Gemalto First in the World to Be Fully-certified by the GSMA for Secure eSIM Subscription Management

8 years 11 months ago
Security

Gemalto, the world leader in digital security, announces that its On-Demand Connectivity Service has become the first in the world to demonstrate full compliance with the stringent security requirements of the GSMA's Security Accreditation Scheme for embedded SIM (eSIM) remote provisioning.

Extreme Networks Provides European Investment Bank with Scalable, Future-Proof Network

8 years 11 months ago
Infrastructure

In the dynamic financial market, the need for an always-on, secure and high quality wired and wireless network is critical to run operations efficiently, especially across multiple locations. To support the continued growth of the world’s largest multilateral borrower and lender, Extreme Networks (NASDAQ: EXTR) today announced that European Investment Bank (EIB) selected Extreme’s software-driven end-to-end networking technology to provide a...

NPF Regtech Leaders Forum: Building a Network of Industry Influencers

8 years 11 months ago
RegTech

The NextGen Payments - Regtech Leaders Forum 2017, continuing the NextGen Payments events series, is set to launch on September 6-7 in Brussels. The event will address the accelerating digitalisation and automatisation of the finance sector - from regulatory changes and newest compliance practices to AI and robotics integration; its present day effects and the future of personal and business finances. This exclusive event will include...

Daniel Zakrisson to Share His Insights on Crowdsale at Blockchain & Bitcoin Conference Stockholm

8 years 11 months ago
Blockchain

On September 7, Daniel Zakrisson, one of Cofound.it’s founders, will share his experience in conducting a successful crowdsale campaign and reveal the ICO opportunities at Blockchain & Bitcoin Сonference Stockholm. In June 2017, his own Cofound.it platform, designed for investment seeking and startup financing (the project was designed by the team of ICONOMI blockchain project), raised 15 million dollars within the ICO.

Wolters Kluwer Recognized as Category Leader in Chartis MiFID II Report

8 years 11 months ago
Infrastructure

Wolters Kluwer’s Finance, Risk & Reporting business today announced that Chartis Research has named the company a Category Leader in its Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) Report for 2017. Chartis uses in-depth research and a clear scoring system to determine which MiFID II solutions can best meet an organization’s needs.

Online Passwords: Keep it Complicated!!

8 years 11 months ago
Data

> Most Common Passwords Looking at the list of 2016’s most common passwords, we couldn’t stop shaking our heads. Nearly 17 percent of people are safeguarding their accounts with “123456.” What really perplexed us is that so many website operators are not enforcing password security best practices. Using external, public data sources we scoured 10 million passwords from data breaches that happened in 2016. A few things jumped out: