SAP to Acquire Gigya, Market Leader in Customer Identity and Access Management
- 9 years 2 weeks ago
- Infrastructure
Replacing Legacy Payment Processors for Retailers: Crypto Improvement Fund, With Its Unique Model, Announces ICO
- 9 years 2 weeks ago
- Investment Management
The Canadian Crypto Improvement Fund (CIF) has announced the launch of its innovative project, finding a way to get businesses involved in an untapped market worth over 150 billion dollars. The company has introduced the CIF asset, which offers all-in-one functionality as a business incentive, marketing tool, and customer loyalty program. The platform has announced the crowdsale of its digital asset, CIF which starts on October 1st, 2017. The...
NEC and Hortonworks Expand Partnership to Deliver a Distributed Processing Platform for Big Data
- 9 years 2 weeks ago
- Data
Study: Sixty-seven Percent of Central Banks are Experimenting with Blockchain Technology
- 9 years 2 weeks ago
- Infrastructure
Interest in enterprise blockchains and Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) has grown significantly in the past few years, with at least 115 DLT startups now employing more than two thousand people and many large corporations and public sector institutions focusing on DLT, says the first Global Blockchain Benchmarking Study by the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF), supported by VISA and professional services firm Ernst and Young (EY...
Competition and Markets Authority Approves Cardtronics' Acquisition of DirectCash Payments Inc. UK Operations
- 9 years 2 weeks ago
- Payments
Cardtronics plc (Nasdaq:CATM), the world's largest ATM owner / operator, today announced the United Kingdom's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has approved the company's previously completed acquisition of the DirectCash Payments Inc. (DCPayments) UK operations.
Nasdaq Welcomes Secoo Holding Limited to The Nasdaq Global Market
- 9 years 2 weeks ago
- Foreign Exchange
Secoo Holding Limited (Nasdaq:SECO), Asia's largest online integrated upscale products and services platform, rang the opening bell at the Nasdaq MarketSite in Times Square today in celebration of its initial public offering (IPO) on The Nasdaq Global Market.
Financial Crime Compliance Costs Soar, New Research Shows
- 9 years 2 weeks ago
- Risk Management
New regulation and advancing criminal methodologies have seen financial crime compliance costs continue to soar in financial institutions in the last two years, according to new research from LexisNexis® Risk Solutions, the global information solution provider, a part of RELX Group. Future Financial Crime Risks 2017 incorporates a survey of nearly 200 senior financial crime compliance professionals from banks in the UK, and reveals 63% of...
State Street Combines Quantitative Power of Machine Learning with Human Expertise to Launch Quantextual℠ Idea Lab
- 9 years 2 weeks ago
- Investment Management
Investment professionals today are inundated with research reports from the sell side, the buy side and academia. Top financial research teams can produce enough content to consume 24 reams or 12,000 sheets of paper per day. To help address this information overload, State Street (NYSE:STT) has launched QuantextualSM Idea Lab, which combines the power of machine learning with the knowledge of human experts in order to help investment...
Alipay Teams Up with Nordic Partners to Bring “Smart Tourism” to Chinese Visitors
- 9 years 2 weeks ago
- Payments
Alipay, the world’s largest online and mobile payment platform, operated by Ant Financial Services Group (“Ant Financial”, “Ant”), today announced that it has signed separate MoUs with Finpro (Finland), Svensk Handel (Sweden) and the Scandinavian Tourist Board, which will enable merchants across Nordic region to accept payment via Alipay and reach Chinese customers before, during and after their visit via Alipay’s in-app marketing platform. This...
Capital One UK Lands in Silicon Roundabout
- 9 years 2 weeks ago
- Infrastructure
Capital One UK has completed its expansion in London by relocating its West End offices to the White Collar Factory EC1, overlooking Silicon Roundabout. The new London office now accommodates all of Capital One’s 160 London-based employees in one space.
CXO-Cockpit and OneStream Software Introduce an Integrated Financial Reporting Solution to the XF MarketPlace
- 9 years 2 weeks ago
- Infrastructure
CXO-Cockpit and Corporate Performance Management solutions provider, OneStream Software, announced that they have teamed up to provide the growing OneStream community with a reporting solution that meets the OneStream standards with rich financial analytics and intelligent dashboards.
State Street Launches Growth Readiness Indicator
- 9 years 2 weeks ago
- Asset Management
As part of the publication of its latest study, A New Climate for Growth: Cultivating Asset Intelligence to Thrive1, State Street Corporation (NYSE: STT) today announced the launch of a new Growth Readiness benchmarking tool that enables users to measure their preparedness for future growth against their peers.
Trading Technologies Extends TT platform to Hong Kong
- 9 years 2 weeks ago
- Trading Systems
Trading Technologies International, Inc. (TT), a global provider of high-performance professional trading software, today announced the availability of execution and client connectivity services through the Hong Kong Exchange and Clearing (HKEX) data center via its TT® platform.
Security Vulnerabilities in the Finance Sector Increase by Over 400% Since 2013
- 9 years 2 weeks ago
- Security
The number of security vulnerabilities detected in the financial services sector has increased by over 418% in the last four years, according to new research from global cyber security and risk mitigation expert NCC Group. The company analysed vulnerabilities found in 168 financial services organisations using a number of different scanning methods. The results revealed that the number of security vulnerabilities detected within the sector has...
