Samsung Pay Teams Up with Leading POS Makers to Expand Mobile Payment Adoption
- 9 years 8 months ago
- Transaction Banking, Payments, Mobile Banking
Samsung Electronics announced today new partnerships with the world’s largest POS makers, including Verifone (NYSE: PAY), Ingenico Group, First Data and Clover, PAX Technology, Equinox, ID TECH, MagTek, USA ePay and OTI Global, to accelerate mobile payment adoption by ensuring the best possible user experience at merchants’ point-of-sale (POS) systems during checkout. Samsung Pay is the only contactless payment solution that works at over 90...
Worldpay Offers Unique Flexibility for the UK SMEs
- 9 years 8 months ago
- Payments
Worldpay has today unveiled a unique offering for the UK payments industry that will provide a greater range of payment pricing options, meaning SMEs can find the perfect payment plan to fit their business. Taking inspiration from the mobile telephony industry, the UK's number one payment provider has added 'Pay As You Go' and 'Fixed Monthly' card payment pricing plans giving Britain's small businesses more flexibility, simplicity and choice for...
Vendavo Experts Find Lack Of Proper Margin Strategy in Many EU Organizations
- 9 years 8 months ago
- Transaction Banking, Data
European organisations performing ahead of market expectations and creating more value for shareholders place a much greater emphasis on understanding and improving margin than their competitors. This is the key finding from a study published today by profit performance experts Vendavo and Patrick Reinmoeller, Professor of Strategic Management at Cranfield School of Management. The report also highlights a worrying lack of insight into margin...
Sopra Steria Helps FCA in Digital Regulatory Market Data Processing
- 9 years 8 months ago
- Regulatory Standards
Sopra Steria, selected by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to deliver a new digital regulatory market data processing platform. The exclusive six-year contract will see Sopra Steria supply a complete solution, which ensures investment firms’ trading reporting activity remains compliant.
CBI & IBM Analyse Digital Divide of British Businesses
- 9 years 8 months ago
- IT Innovations, Infrastructure
A digital divide is opening up across the British economy, with just over half (55%) of “pioneer” firms adopting digital technologies and processes, while the other half (45%) are falling behind. This is according to new research by the CBI and international technology and consulting firm, IBM.
Thomson Reuters' New Enhanced Analysis Tool Helps Energy Traders
- 9 years 8 months ago
- Trading Systems
Thomson Reuters is providing energy traders with comprehensive analysis of the intraday European power market via a new app on its flagship desktop platform Eikon. The tool helps energy companies manage their delivery commitments efficiently by generating intraday predictions for price drivers on the European Power Exchange (EPEX).
Discover Global Network Partners with Computop to Boost e-commerce Acceptance
- 9 years 8 months ago
- Payments, BPM
Diners Club International, a wholly owned subsidiary of Discover Financial Services and part of the Discover Global Network, and Computop, a leading international payment services provider, today announced an agreement that will increase e-commerce acceptance for Discover, Diners Club and Alliance Partner cards.
Digital Asset Brings New Alternative to Smart Contracts in Financial Services
- 9 years 8 months ago
- Blockchain
Digital Asset announced the acquisition of Elevence, a technology firm that has developed an expressive language for financial institutions to model and execute agreements with certainty and finality. This technology complements Digital Asset's existing software by providing a new, verifiable way for parties to a transaction to prove updates to a distributed ledger while preserving data confidentiality.
Fiserv and Cisco Reach Strategic Partnership
- 9 years 8 months ago
- Infrastructure
Fiserv announced an agreement with Cisco that help financial institutions enhance internal collaboration and drive customer engagement. The partnership enables integrated communications capabilities essential for financial institutions to execute their branch of the future strategies, including virtual interaction with remote experts and secure wireless access that supports a universal banker model.
SWIFT and Accenture Discuss Distributed Ledger Technology Implementation within Financial Services
- 9 years 8 months ago
- Security and Compliance
SWIFT announces today the availability of a new paper investigating how Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLTs) could be used in financial services. Published in collaboration with Accenture, the paper is based on an in-depth technology assessment by SWIFT of DLT usage across financial institutions, highlighting the opportunities as well as the challenges for industry wide adoption.
Fenergo Client Lifecycle Management Platform Selected by ICBC Standard Bank
- 9 years 8 months ago
- Banking, Infrastructure
Fenergo, the leading provider of Regulatory Onboarding, Entity Data Management and Client Lifecycle Management software solutions for institutional, corporate and private banks, has today announced that the ICBC Standard Bank has selected its award-winning Client Lifecycle Management platform. By implementing Fenergo’s Client Lifecycle Management solution, ICBC Standard Bank will benefit from a highly optimized process that ensures global...
Volante Technologies Supports ISO 20022 Real-Time Payments Group
- 9 years 8 months ago
- Payments, Security
Volante Technologies is pleased to announce support for the ISO 20022 Real-Time Payments Group (RTPG) global market practice guidelines which were published on 18th April 2016 on the ISO 20022 website.
VirtusaPolaris Reveals BankConnect Solution
- 9 years 8 months ago
- Banking, Correspondence Banking
VirtusaPolaris, the market-facing brand of Virtusa Corporation and Polaris Consulting & Services, Ltd., a leading worldwide provider of information technology (IT) consulting and outsourcing, today announced the launch of VirtusaPolaris BankConnect. The solution, powered by Adobe Marketing Cloud, is designed to create more personalized customer banking experiences across authenticated bank environments.
SWIFT to Launch New Innovative eLearning Platform SWIFTSmart
- 9 years 8 months ago
- IT Innovations
SWIFT announces its plans to launch SWIFTSmart, a new innovative eLearning platform that administrates, documents, tracks, reports and delivers a full catalogue of digital courses and social learning.
Fidessa Establishes a New Slant to Fintech Innovation
- 9 years 8 months ago
- IT Innovations
Fidessa published paper in its series on innovation in capital markets in which it introduces the concept of 'Natural Innovation' for the larger firms in this space. With so many of them investing in fintech incubators, innovation labs and startup committees, the paper points to a new way that leverages one of the most creative forces of all time.
