Think&Go Joins Ingenico's Family
- 9 years 11 months ago
- M&A Deals
Ingenico announces the acquisition of Think&Go NFC. Founded in 2010, employing a staff of fifteen, Think&Go NFC has developed a technology that enables any kind of digital display to interact with connected objects such as smartphones and transit passes. As a result, the connected screens become a vehicle for marketing tools like drive-to-store, couponing, loyalty programs and downloads. With fifteen innovation awards, two patents and...
CAST Report Sheds New Light on the Software Quality Of UK Banks
- 9 years 11 months ago
- Infrastructure
CAST, the global expert in software risk prevention and analysis, revealed the findings of its latest CRASH* report, the world’s largest real-life study of software quality in enterprise applications. The report exposes that the overall quality of banks’ mission critical functions are POOR, potentially explaining the frequent outages suffered by UK banks.
Robertson Baxter Recognized One the Best UK IFAs
- 9 years 11 months ago
- Consultancy
Huddersfield-based Robertson Baxter is one of the top IFA firms in the country according to the UK’s leading independent IFA ranking system, VouchedFor. VouchedFor is an online portal where investors can find trusted financial advisors in their area. Their Top Rated award has been created to help identify and highlight the professionals on VouchedFor that have received the highest volume of positive client reviews in the past 18 months.
BPC Named “Best Payments Solution Provider” at the Banker Africa Award
- 9 years 11 months ago
- Payments
BPC Banking Technologies has been recognised as the Best Payments Solution Provider in South Africa, by The Banker Africa Award. All the winners in 29 categories reflect the diversity and evolution of the Southern African region, with fast-growing country-specific institutions recognised alongside first-tier regional banks.
Danson Lam from Etrali Joins Speakerbus
- 9 years 11 months ago
- People Moves
Speakerbus, the specialist provider of critical voice solutions for financial, emergency and command sectors, announced today that it has recently hired Danson Lam from Etrali (now part of IPC) to join the Asia-Pacific new business team. Based in Hong Kong, Danson was previously regional Sales Manager at Etrali and is a highly-experienced voice trading platform specialist.
FlexTrade & OTAS to Unveil Integration with Symphony at TradeTech Europe
- 9 years 11 months ago
- Trading Systems
FlexTrade Systems, a global leader in multi-asset execution management systems is pleased to announce the first integration between OTAS Technologies’ natural language intelligence and analysis systems, and Symphony Communication Services LLC’s platform, in the company’s FlexTRADER EMS. For buy-side traders this means not only do they have access to OTAS’s live market analytics and intelligence, but also where this might influence their trading...
Provenir Selected by Bigbank to Enhance its Processing of Credit and Loans
- 9 years 11 months ago
- Cloud, Infrastructure
Provenir announces that Bigbank has chosen the Provenir solution to overhaul its processing of credit and loans. Estonian-owned Bigbank provides term deposits and consumer loans. It operates in the Baltics, Nordics, Germany, the Netherlands, Austria and Spain and is subject to a range of evolving regulation. To remain compliant, and to stay competitive as market conditions and customer expectations change, Bigbank makes updates to risk models...
Juniper Predicts Mobile & Wearable Contactless Payments to Reach $95billion by 2018
- 9 years 11 months ago
- Payments
A new study from Juniper Research has found that the global value of mobile and wearable contactless payments is expected to reach $95 billion annually by 2018, up from less than $35 billion last year.
FIME Starts EMVCo Mobile Payments Performance Testing
- 9 years 11 months ago
- Payments
FIME’s Greenlight test tool has been qualified by technical body EMVCo to deliver Level 1 mobile performance testing. The fully automated tool measures the payment transaction time between a smartphone and acceptance terminal. The tool is available to purchase for in-house testing and is used by FIME’s laboratories.
OTAS Launches Lingo for Microstructure Produces
- 9 years 11 months ago
- Audit and Reporting
OTAS Technologies releases Lingo for Microstructure, an extension of its existing Lingo natural language reporting technology. OTAS Lingo for Microstructure produces intra-day reports containing up-to-date analysis of all the standout and unusual activity in stocks. The on demand market reports include the latest developments in markets and portfolios allowing users to be kept up-to-date with market activity and make more informed risk...
Teleena Strengthens its Board of Directors with New Hire
- 9 years 11 months ago
- People Moves
Teleena announced that Kim Bybjerg, one of the pioneers of the Internet of Things in Europe, will join its Board of Non-Executive Directors.
Auka Reaches Strategic Agreement with Signicat
- 9 years 11 months ago
- Banking, FinTech StartUps
Post their successful launch at Money 20/20 in Copenhagen this week, mobile payments innovator Auka, has signed an agreement with the world leader in electronic identity assurance, Signicat.
GreySpark Explores a New Generation of Technology Vendor Drop Copy Data Management Systems
- 9 years 11 months ago
- Data Management
A new whitepaper from GreySpark Partners, a leading global capital markets consulting firm, explores how a new generation of technology vendor drop copy data management systems are emerging in 2016. Compared to the drop copy systems built in-house by trading firms for internal and client reporting trade reconciliation and risk management purposes, the new generation of drop copy data management systems are specifically designed to assist buyside...
Huatai Financial Implements Fidessa's Trading Solution
- 9 years 11 months ago
- Trading Systems
Fidessa announced that Huatai Financial Holdings Limited implemented Fidessa’s centralised order management and execution system as its Asian trading platform to support the expansion of HTSC’s equities business across the Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect markets.
Pragma Unveils SmartFix to Enhance FX Trading Performance
- 9 years 11 months ago
- Trading Systems, Foreign Exchange
Pragma Securities, a leading provider of high performance algorithmic trading tools, has launched Pragma SmartFix, a new execution algorithm designed to improve average execution performance against the daily 4pm WM/Reuters foreign exchange benchmark fixing.
