01/26/2015
UK silver surfers topping banks' online and mobile growth charts
UK banks are experiencing faster growth rates for digital services by customers in the 70s and 80s, according to the latest data from the British Bankers Association.
FinTech
01/23/2015
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
01/22/2015
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
01/21/2015
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.
01/19/2015
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.
01/15/2015
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.
01/15/2015
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
01/13/2015
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.
01/13/2015
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.
01/13/2015
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.
01/09/2015
Switzerland gets its first contactless debit card
Contactless payment is enjoying huge worldwide growth
01/09/2015
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
01/08/2015
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.
01/08/2015
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.
01/06/2015
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.
01/06/2015
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
01/06/2015
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.
01/01/2015
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.
12/29/2014
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.
12/29/2014
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.