Oman Arab Bank Selects SmartVista Suite to Enhance its Card Business
- 9 years 7 months ago
- Banking, Infrastructure
BPC Banking Technologies, a world leading provider of payment solutions, announces that Oman Arab Bank (OAB) has selected SmartVista suite to enhance its payment business. SmartVista is to replace the existing legacy ACI Open2 platform to enable the bank to meet its objective of having a modern and flexible platform to continue to adapt to the changing retail banking market.
Mesirow Financial Goes Live on Clarient Entity Hub
- 9 years 7 months ago
- Management
Clarient reports that Mesirow Financial, an independent diversified financial services firm, has gone live on Clarient Entity Hub, a utility-based service designed to simplify client data and document management.
Novantas Reports Acquisition of Treasury Strategies
- 9 years 7 months ago
- M&A Deals
Novantas, Inc. announced today that it has acquired Chicago-based Treasury Strategies, Inc., a leading consultancy in bank and corporate treasury functions. The transaction expands the Novantas portfolio and strengthens its position as the leading revenue management company serving the financial community.
Wealthsimple Releases Platform for Advisors, Expands Reach of Investment Services
- 9 years 7 months ago
- Investment Management
Wealthsimple, Canada’s leading online investment service, announced today that they have a launched an automated platform for financial advisors to manage their clients' investment portfolios.
Friess Associates Benefits from Linedata’s Investment Management Range of Solutions
- 9 years 7 months ago
- Investment Management
Linedata, the global solutions provider dedicated to the investment management and credit industries, today announced that Friess Associates, a growth oriented fund management group, with over $1 billion of assets under management, has selected its comprehensive range of investment management solutions.
Android Pay Available for MBNA Customers
- 9 years 7 months ago
- Payments
Credit card experts MBNA have announced that Android Pay™, by Google™, is now available to their customers as the app goes live in the UK today. Android Pay will enable Android™ mobile users to seamlessly tap and pay with their phones at almost 460,000 contactless payment points in the UK, with more locations being added every day. It can also be used to make purchases in supported Android apps.
Rondout Savings Bank Chooses CSI NuPoint® Core Solution
- 9 years 7 months ago
- Banking
In order to further support both its clients’ banking needs and the bank’s existing business goals, Kingston, New York-based Rondout Savings Bank has partnered with Computer Services, Inc., a provider of end-to-end financial technology solutions, as its new core technology provider. Rondout Savings selected the CSI NuPoint® core solution, which enables the bank to broaden its technology offerings to not only achieve its own strategic objectives...
Wealthify Analyses Britons' Saving Habits
- 9 years 7 months ago
- Wealth Management
57% of Britons are overestimating the financial return on their investments despite the fact that the majority of savers are still relying on low-interest savings accounts and ISAs, according to data from Wealthify, the online investment service. Wealthify says that even though two thirds of Britons are now saving, the amounts saved are low, and many Britons are expecting to get by on a tight budget or struggling to afford bare essentials in...
Interac Debit Cardholders Can Now Use Apple Pay
- 9 years 7 months ago
- Payments
Interac Association/Acxsys Corporation (“Interac”), Canada’s domestic debit network, is pleased to announce the participation of additional financial institutions offering Apple Pay to Interac debit cardholders. Interac debit cardholders from BMO Financial Group, Scotiabank and TD can now use Apple Pay on supported Apple devices to make easy, secure and private contactless debit transactions when shopping at hundreds of thousands of merchants...
China's Fujian Rural Credit Taps IBM as its New Storage Infrastructure
- 9 years 7 months ago
- Cloud, Storage
China's Fujian Rural Credit (FJRC) has selected IBM (NYSE: IBM) for its new storage infrastructure to help to speed up deployment and raise efficiency of Internet- and cloud-based new financial applications, such as mobile banking, for the province's increasingly prosperous agricultural population.
OT and PCARD Collaborate to Provide Secure Payment Solutions for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
- 9 years 7 months ago
- Payments, Security
OT (Oberthur Technologies), a leading global provider of embedded security software products and services, today announced a key partnership with PCARD, the Saudi leader in smart card personalization services, to provide high quality secure payment solutions for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. This Partnership will allow Banks of Saudi Arabia to provide innovative cutting-edge payment technology that will enhance and secure their customers’...
Thomson Reuters Unveils 2pm WM/Reuters FX Benchmark for Settle Cross-Border Transactions
- 9 years 7 months ago
- Transaction Banking, IT Innovations, Infrastructure
Thomson Reuters today launches the WM/Reuters 2pm CET benchmark, a new FX benchmark service designed for corporates looking to value, hedge and settle cross-border transactions. The Thomson Reuters 2pm CET benchmark offers a reliable, transaction-oriented alternative to the European Central Bank (ECB) 2:15pm CET reference rates.
Police Mutual Goes live with Exaxe Policy Administration System
- 9 years 7 months ago
- Infrastructure
Exaxe, an award-winning specialist solution provider for the life and pensions industry, has announced that Police Mutual has successfully gone live with its Admin Plus and Illustrate Plus solutions. The renewable five year licence agreement marked the fourth of six licence sales for Exaxe over the past twelve months.
Information Builders’ Customers & Partners Can Access Powerful BI and Analytics in the Cloud Via Azure
- 9 years 7 months ago
- Cloud, Infrastructure
Information Builders, a leader in business intelligence (BI) and analytics, information integrity, and integration solutions, today announced that its WebFOCUS BI and analytics platform is now available on Microsoft Azure. · Information Builders’ WebFOCUS, a BI platform that delivers rich, consumable, interactive information to a wide range of end users, is now available on the Azure cloud platform
KPMG Finds Companies' Achilles Heel in the Use of Anti-Fraud Technology
- 9 years 7 months ago
- Security
Technology is proving business’ Achilles heel in the fight against fraud. New research by KPMG reveals that while a quarter of fraudsters use technology to rip off companies, only three percent of businesses detected illegal behaviour using data analytics. In fact 24 percent of technology-enabled frauds were caught accidentally, demonstrating that companies are failing to harness new methods of fraud detection.
