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Excelian, Luxoft Financial Services Looks to the East for Global Delivery Expansion

Excelian, Luxoft Financial Services Looks to the East for Global Delivery Expansion

Excelian, Luxoft financial services, the financial services division of Luxoft Holding, Inc. (NYSE:LXFT), a leading provider of softwa..

Business Consortium Announce Launch OfSme Cyber Alliance  

Business Consortium Announce Launch OfSme Cyber Alliance  

A group of leading south-east businesses have joined forces to launch a cyber alliance that will provide pro-active support to SMEs in..

IRIS Software Group Acquires ParentMail to Extend Education Software Portfolio

IRIS Software Group Acquires ParentMail to Extend Education Software Portfolio

Today, UK business critical software provider, IRIS Software Group, has announced the acquisition of school communication and payment ..

FICO Machine Learning Algorithms Improve Card-Not-Present Fraud Detection by 30%

FICO Machine Learning Algorithms Improve Card-Not-Present Fraud Detection by 30%

Thousands of global banks to benefit from machine learning that more accurately detects fraud in online and mobile purchases  Highligh..

Derivatives Service Bureau Launch Real Time ISINs for OTC Derivatives

Derivatives Service Bureau Launch Real Time ISINs for OTC Derivatives

Addressing the need for regulatory reporting obligations under MiFID II The Derivatives Service Bureau launched its real-time Internat..

Brexit and global uncertainty mean currency risks lie ahead

Brexit and global uncertainty mean currency risks lie ahead

What a summer it has been. Unexpected political events have certainly made their impact here in the UK while the EU was left relativel..

Taking a layered approach with PSD2

Taking a layered approach with PSD2

Tony Reid, CTO of Financial Services, Hitachi EMEA Two decades ago the payment industry was perceived as an innovation backwater. Paym..

PSD2 is coming: Are you ready?

PSD2 is coming: Are you ready?

Sam Bennett, Head of Compliance and Operations, Frontierpay Sam Bennett Taking effect at the beginning of 2018, the second..

The blockchaineffect: reimagining financial services

The blockchaineffect: reimagining financial services

Duncan Jones, Head of Skunkworks, Thales e-Security  Over the past five years, blockchain has risen from an underground currency techn..

Protecting GDPR Footprints Withinthe Financial Sector

Protecting GDPR Footprints Withinthe Financial Sector

Author: Steve Durbin, Managing Director, Information Security Forum (ISF) www.securityforum.org  It is no secret that the impending EU..

How AI is transforming the finance industry

How AI is transforming the finance industry

By Dan Somers, CEO of Warwick Analytics (www.warwickanalytics.com) Artificial Intelligence(AI) is helping to automate business process..

Blue Prism delivers 55x return on investment for Mercia’s managed funds

Blue Prism delivers 55x return on investment for Mercia’s managed funds

Mercia Technologies PLC, the national investment group focused on the funding and scaling of innovative technology businesses with hig..

The Aftermath Of The Catalan Chaos Will Be Crucial For Investors

The Aftermath Of The Catalan Chaos Will Be Crucial For Investors

Immediate market reaction to the illegal separatist referendum in Catalonia is likely to be muted – but what happens on the aftermath ..

Salesforce Announces Financial Services Cloud for Retail Banking—Unlocking the Full Power of the Bank to Strengthen Customer Loyalty

Salesforce Announces Financial Services Cloud for Retail Banking—Unlocking the Full Power of the Bank to Strengthen Customer Loyalty

Built on the world’s #1 CRM platform, Salesforce’s newest industry application gives every banker a holistic view of the customer and ..

The Challenges DrivingDemand forHigh Performance Infrastructure.

The Challenges DrivingDemand forHigh Performance Infrastructure.

Multiple trends in the banking industry are making a high-performance technology infrastructure critical to ensure success. Terry Eris..

Ryanair – the lessons that small businesses can learn from their recent debacle

Ryanair – the lessons that small businesses can learn from their recent debacle

Carl Reader, author of The Start Up Coach, co-owner of dennisandturnbull.com Ryanair have hit the headlines big style recently, with t..

How to Underpin Your Business Exhibition with a Digital Strategy

How to Underpin Your Business Exhibition with a Digital Strategy

Richard Lecount, Sales and Marketing Director at USBMakers (www.usbmakers.com)  In this digital world that we reside in, it’s becoming..

China, US, India among the top 36 countries for marketplace expansion in 2018

China, US, India among the top 36 countries for marketplace expansion in 2018

Hyperwallet’s inaugural 2018 Marketplace Expansion Index provides marketplaces a data-driven approach to expansion measured across key..

Cryptomathic Granted New Patent for Strong Non-Repudiation with eSignatures

Cryptomathic Granted New Patent for Strong Non-Repudiation with eSignatures

Extends Cryptomathic’s leadership in eSignature IP, confirms Cryptomathic Signer as de-facto choice for trust centers, banks and gover..

Mercia Technologies PLC’s fund management subsidiaries rebranding as Mercia Fund Managers

Mercia Technologies PLC’s fund management subsidiaries rebranding as Mercia Fund Managers

Mercia Technologies PLC, the national investment group focused on the funding and scaling of innovative technology businesses with hig..

ESF/ThinCats announces £200 million funding programme to support lending to UK SMEs

ESF/ThinCats announces £200 million funding programme to support lending to UK SMEs

ESF Capital, together with its operating subsidiary, ThinCats, has concluded a funding programme for loans of up to £5m for growing UK..

SIX Securities Services goes live with its trade repository to report derivatives transactions in Switzerland

SIX Securities Services goes live with its trade repository to report derivatives transactions in Switzerland

Today – six months after receiving approval from FINMA – the Swiss trade repository service provided by SIX Securities Services offici..

Cardano launches with Bittrex as first exchange partner

Cardano launches with Bittrex as first exchange partner

New Ada cryptocurrency token will tradable on one of the largest digital currency exchanges Cardano Foundation, IOHK and Emurgo, the t..

Rogue Robots: Testing the Limits of an Industrial Robot’s Security

Rogue Robots: Testing the Limits of an Industrial Robot’s Security

Vulnerabilities in protocols and software running industrial robots are by now widely known, but to date, there has been no in-depth,..

Anthony Di Iorio Joins Bancor Co-Founder and Bittrex CEO on StormX Advisory Board

Anthony Di Iorio Joins Bancor Co-Founder and Bittrex CEO on StormX Advisory Board

StormX releases whitepaper for STORM Token StormX, Inc., the blockchain, adtech, and micro-task company, has announced Jaxx Founder an..

Squirro launches new advanced AI platform TRINITY to enable Machine Learning to deliver insights driven applications across the enterprise

Squirro launches new advanced AI platform TRINITY to enable Machine Learning to deliver insights driven applications across the enterprise

Squirro’s TRINITY platform to become the digital nervous system for the enterprise Squirro,the advanced context intelligence and insig..

Delio Appoints New Senior Client Director

Delio Appoints New Senior Client Director

UK FinTech Delio, the leading white-label platform for private assets, has announced the appointment of a senior client director to fo..

Gateley appoints new director to launch Global Mobility practice

Gateley appoints new director to launch Global Mobility practice

Gateley, the national commercial law and professional services group, has appointed director, Steve Asher, to launch a new service off..

New cloud product to boost university admissions and league rankings

New cloud product to boost university admissions and league rankings

A North East tech firm has launched an innovative new product which could boost funding and revolutionise how higher education faculti..

Industry NOT READY for robot hack threat, warns cyber security expert

Industry NOT READY for robot hack threat, warns cyber security expert

Users of industrial robots from manufacturing to healthcare are unprepared for the real risk of a hacking attack, warns a leading cybe..

Small charities should not shy away from investing for social good

Small charities should not shy away from investing for social good

John James, Investment Manager, Thorntons Investments You are a Trustee of a small charitable trust which receives a relatively substa..

The next generation of unicorns will come from the European edtech space

The next generation of unicorns will come from the European edtech space

How does one catch a tech unicorn – those elusive startups with phenomenal valuations worth north of $1 billion? It’s no mean feat. 20..

BEST OF BOTH WORLDS: THE IMPORTANCE OF BALANCING INNOVATION WITH LONG-TERM BUSINESS STRATEGY

BEST OF BOTH WORLDS: THE IMPORTANCE OF BALANCING INNOVATION WITH LONG-TERM BUSINESS STRATEGY

by Allirajah Subaskaran , Lyca Group’s Chairman The Lyca Group has evolved significantly since its founding eleven years ago. Lycatel,..

ONLINE REPUTATION AND CUSTOMER CENTRICITY WILL LEAD THE WAY FOR RETAIL BANKING  IN THIS NEW ERA OF APPROACHABILITY:

ONLINE REPUTATION AND CUSTOMER CENTRICITY WILL LEAD THE WAY FOR RETAIL BANKING  IN THIS NEW ERA OF APPROACHABILITY:

by Jon Buss, MD UK & Northern Europe, Yext No industry appreciates the heavy hand of the regulator and the Financial Services indu..

Five reasons you need a store locator and how it can improve sales

Five reasons you need a store locator and how it can improve sales

If you want to give your consumers a convenient way of finding your physical stores, getting to them easily and keeping up to date wit..

How blockchain can help SMEs build trust

How blockchain can help SMEs build trust

Erich Schnoeckel, manager accountancy program ecosystems, Exact Businesses must be able to build trust if they’re to thrive. You can’t..

Desjardins: driving global payment acceptance interoperability with nexo standards

Desjardins: driving global payment acceptance interoperability with nexo standards

This case study explores the requirement of Desjardins to harmonise its payment acceptance infrastructure to support the international..