GSMA Research Reveals Mobile Money is Significantly Reducing the Cost of Sending International Remittances
- 9 years 1 month ago
- Infrastructure
The GSMA today issued a report entitled, ‘Driving a Price Revolution: Mobile Money in International Remittances’ that looks at the impact of mobile money on reducing the cost of international remittances1. The findings show that the cost of sending international remittances with mobile money is, on average, more than 50 per cent less expensive than using global money transfer operators (MTOs). Additionally, where people were able to send...
ALPIQ Selects IoT Platform by DigitalRoute
- 9 years 1 month ago
- Infrastructure
Alpiq, a leading Swiss electricity and energy services provider with a European footprint, has selected DigitalRoute's IoT Platform. Digital Route, the leading provider of data management solutions globally, will help Alpiq to drive the digitization of its business.
ACI Powers Partners with Turkish Bank UK to Power Faster Payments Offering
- 9 years 1 month ago
- Payments
ACI Worldwide, a leading global provider of real-time electronic payment and banking solutions, today announced it has partnered with Turkish Bank UK to power its Faster Payments offering. The UK-based bank will use ACI’s aggregator service to connect to the UK Faster Payments Scheme – allowing it to process all transfers to and from UK bank accounts instantly. The bank will use the service via ACI’s cloud-based delivery model run from its new...
Accenture Completes Acquisition of Kurt Salmon
- 9 years 1 month ago
- M&A Deals
Accenture has completed the acquisition of Kurt Salmon, a leading global strategy consulting firm focused on the retail industry and a subsidiary of Management Consulting Group. The acquisition was first announced on September 22, 2016. More than 260 employees of Kurt Salmon across the U.S., Germany, U.K, Japan and China are now part of the Accenture Strategy retail industry practice, strengthening its capabilities in delivering end-to-end...
PICA Corporation and Burrill Green Form New Global Partnership
- 9 years 1 month ago
- Security
PICA Corporation and Burrill Green announced today they have formed a new global partnership, consolidating their mutual expertise and capabilities in corporate security, intelligence and business resilience to create a consultancy unrivalled in the industry. These joint capabilities are currently being utilized by their multi-national clients for a variety of requirements including counter-terrorism intelligence, forensic cyber investigations,...
IPC Thought Leader to Present at the Fixed Income Leaders Summit Europe
- 9 years 1 month ago
- Trading Systems
IPC Systems, Inc., is proud to announce that one of the company's thought leaders, Ganesh Iyer, IPC's Global Director of Product Marketing, will be presenting to influential European heads of fixed income trading and portfolio management at the Fixed Income Leaders Summit in Barcelona, Spain scheduled to be held from November 8-10, 2016 at the Fairmont Rey Juan Carlos I. The event will focus on critical concerns faced by fixed income...
Recon Capital Team Joins Horizons ETFs Management (USA) LLC
- 9 years 1 month ago
- M&A Deals
Recon Capital Advisors, LLC (“RCA”), the investment adviser to the four exchange-traded funds that make up the Recon Capital Series Trust, has entered into an agreement to be acquired by Horizons ETFs Management (USA) LLC (“Horizons USA”), a member of the Horizons Exchange Traded Funds Group, one of the largest collective families of ETFs in the world. RCA’s team will join Horizons USA, a subsidiary of Mirae Asset Global Investments Co., Ltd....
Market Moves to Adopt TriOptima's triResolve Margin Service
- 9 years 1 month ago
- Derivatives and OTC Derivatives
TriOptima, a leading provider of OTC derivatives post-trade risk management services and infrastructure, announces today that an increasing number of financial institutions are joining the triResolve Margin service in anticipation of the new variation margin rules for non-cleared OTC derivatives effective 1 March 2017. These institutions include a variety of dealers, buy-side and corporates such as B & P Fund Services AB, BRED Banque...
Syndicated Loan Data from IHS Markit to Power Enhanced Risk Analytics from MSCI
- 9 years 1 month ago
- Risk Management
IHS Markit, a world leader in critical information, analytics and solutions, today announced its industry leading syndicated loan data will be integrated into MSCI Inc.’s enhanced syndicated loan risk analytics.
FINCAD Empowers Buy Side with Unique MBS Solution
- 9 years 1 month ago
- Trading Systems, Infrastructure
FINCAD, the leading provider of sophisticated valuation and risk analytics for multi-asset derivatives and fixed income portfolios, today announced that its F3 solution now offers coverage for mortgage-backed securities (MBS) and structured fixed income securities such as RMBS, ABS, CMBS and CLOs via integration with data analytics providers, AD&Co and Intex. Buy side firms can use F3 to accurately hedge exposure and perform scenario...
AC Lordi Appoints Bill Dawson to Lead Risk & Compliance Services
- 9 years 1 month ago
- People Moves
AC Lordi, a boutique accounting and management consulting firm, announced today that Bill Dawson will lead the firm’s Risk & Compliance service line (formerly “Risk Management”). Dawson will oversee offerings including internal audit, Sarbanes-Oxley, systems audit & consulting, regulatory compliance and enterprise risk management. He succeeds John Dorsam, who retired earlier this year but will remain involved on a part-time basis to...
linked2pay Reveals 'Pay by Text' to Bank Centric Payments
- 9 years 1 month ago
- Payments
linked2pay, an award-winning banking and payments technology provider announced today that they have added 'Pay by Text' as an option on their Bank Centric Payments platform. This enables partners on the bank integrated platform to offer card and ACH payments via SMS text as a fully integrated, branded solution.
WORKTECH16 London Gathers Industry Experts
- 9 years 1 month ago
- IT Innovations, Infrastructure
WORKTECH16 London will be returning to London on Wednesday 9th & Thursday 10th November with another high profile line up of speakers offering their insights about the future of the work. WORKTECH is a uniquely-focused event with topics that consider people, place and technology at work, to give an in depth understanding of the future of work and workplace and crucially how this impacts business performance. The high profile local and...
Timothy Franks to Join KKR
- 9 years 1 month ago
- People Moves
KKR today announced the appointment of Timothy R. Franks as a Member in its London office as of 1 February 2017. Timothy will lead coverage of the Consumer & Retail industries in Europe, Africa and Middle East as a member of the Private Equity team, will support UK coverage and will sit on the European Private Equity Investment Committee.
SCOR Global Life Introduces New Business Acquisition Platform
- 9 years 1 month ago
- Infrastructure, M&A Deals
The Velogica software offers to life insurers superior new business acquisition capabilities, enabling the issuance of policies to meet a range of consumer needs in one seamless and efficient, automated process. In order to provide a best-in-class underwriting solution to its customers in Asia, SCOR Global Life has formed an exclusive partnership with Adviser Connect.
