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Applied Systems Announces Partnership with Close Brothers Premium Finance

The partnership will provide premium finance integration into Applied TAM to increase client service offerings for UK brokerages

Interoute expands combined ISAE 3402 / SSAE 16 type II assurance report for its European data centres

This is another significant expansion of our overall Enterprise Quality and Security Management System at Interoute

Webster Bank embraces Apple Touch ID biometric authentication

The move comes as financial institutions increasingly seek to use biometrics as a tool to improve security.

Growing finance firms to spend 75% more on IT

The number of people employed is expected to fall by 9%, which could account for some of the extra IT budget.

AIM Software Receives Majority Investment from private equity firm

AIM Software's existing management team, led by founder and CEO Martin Buchberger, will continue to operate the business and will maintain a significant ownership stake in the Company.

Profile’s Investment Management solutions ranked high in Aite Group’s and Celent’s industry reports

IMSplus successfully meets the needs of organisations for portfolio management

Career banker-turned-entrepreneur sees opportunity in Lebanon's banking sector

A bank’s retail credit card portfolio includes all of its card offerings to customers.

SEI Selects Technology Partner in the UK

David Hickey, Director, Institutional Advisory Team at SEI, comments: “Investment in software and technology is at the forefront of SEI’s thinking across all of our business lines.

Misys named a Leader in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Trading Platforms

The Gartner Magic Quadrant for Trading Platforms analysed the capabilities of software providers and their systems across buy-side and sell-side markets.

Switzerland gets its first contactless debit card

Contactless payment is enjoying huge worldwide growth

UK-based business and IT consultancy Rule Financial officially becomes GFT, following acquisition by the global GFT Group

UK-based business and IT consultancy Rule Financial has officially become GFT UK Limited following its successful acquisition in June 2014 by GFT Group

Polish banks embrace HCE for mobile payments drive

Nine Polish banks have confirmed plans to commercially launch mobile contactless payments using Visa's Host Card Emulation technology from early next year.

Do Banks Really Need Video Tellers and Mini-Branches?

But with the availability of artificial intelligence and sophisticated risk algorithms that can run on mobile devices, some argue there’s little need for even stripped-down versions of the branch.

Contract win with large European Asset Manager for StatPro Revolution platform

The recurring element of this new contract represents a 55% conversion premium to the original contract.

21m UK consumers say they’ll switch banks to access mobile payments

44% of consumers plan to switch accounts if their current bank was unable to offer mobile payments and had no plans to do so

St. James's Place International deploys FRS asset-reporting software

The on-site or cloud-hosted solution consumes and enriches data from various sources and formats; then produces reports in the prescribed QRT (Quantitative Reporting Templates) format.

Britain’s banking institutions share concerns over Apple Pay

It is understood the bank is uncomfortable with the amount of personal and financial information Apple wants to collect about its customers.

Cyber man: Fund manager profile with Pioneer Investments

Growing up under Soviet rule in Kazakhstan and studying economic cybernetics has placed Yerlan Syzdykov in the unusual position of understanding how certain cultures and systems namely China operate.

Apple Pay Headed to the UK, Banks Wary

The Telegraph reports that at least one of the largest banks is concerned about the mobile payments service's terms.

BAE turns its fire on tax evasion

Europe’s biggest defence company says it is in talks to sell its NetReveal anti-tax evasion software to a number of central Europe governments and expects to double its client base in the next two years.

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