06/23/2020
$78.5 Million French Real Estate Tokenization Deal Announced
The buildings will feature places in Paris such as Rue du Faubourg Saint Honoré, Rue du Sabot in Saint Germain des Prés, and Rue d’Assas in the Latin quarter.
FinTech
06/23/2020
PwC Surveillance Tool Went a Step Too Far
The new noise-tracking device presented by PwC would have enabled the compliance staff of trading houses to detect unusual activities in the homes of employees.
06/23/2020
UBS: The Future of Home Office
The bank has the technology available to maintain its services throughout an emergency situation such as the one presented by the pandemic, giving remote access to its bankers to systems they need for their work – anywhere, at any time from any devi
06/22/2020
Willis Owen enters UK cash savings market with Raisin
Savers should be able to get the best interest rates available to them and do so with little stress or paperwork.
06/22/2020
Corfinancial: 'Remote Working During Market Turmoil has not Affected our Clients Using Salerio'
Salerio was designed to handle unprecedented surges in trading volumes even while operating remotely.
06/19/2020
Truss Edge launches improvements for fund manager cash management
Reconciling cash is therefore an important daily activity, as it not only ensures that cash settlements are anticipated, but cash breaks can guide the identification of trading activity and also collateral trade activity.
06/18/2020
Acumennet eFX launched for full management of Foreign Exchange Risk at Treasury Operations
Acumennet eFX can be deployed as stand-alone or as part of the award-winning Treasury platform Acumennet whilst it can be deployed on-premises or in the cloud.
06/18/2020
Deloitte’s 2020 Global Blockchain Survey
From promise to reality
06/17/2020
Santander extends money transfer business PagoFX to UK sole traders
The firm, which employs 50 staff and operates as a stand-alone entity, says the real-time money transfer service will be extended to SME businesses "in the near future".
06/17/2020
Broadridge Creates New AI-Driven Digital Execution Platform to Bring Next-Generation Liquidity to Corporate Bonds
Broadridge has partnered with Jim Toffey, founder of Tradeweb Markets
06/16/2020
What To Consider When Evaluating A Technology Vendor
The tools and technology that vendors are using in the administration of your activities is another area to explore in the evaluation process.
06/15/2020
Scrolling speed and how customers hold devices to be studied by Royal Bank of Scotland's cutting-edge anti-fraud technology
Royal Bank said the technology, customised in partnership with Visa, “could replace passwords and helps to make payments more secure”.
06/15/2020
SoftBank invests in Credit Suisse funds that finance its technology bets
Japanese conglomerate engages in circular flow of financing to Vision Fund start-ups
06/12/2020
German tech stars unite for ‘deep tech’ venture capital fund
Former Rocket Internet executives raise €170m for European machine learning and automation start-ups
06/12/2020
Coronavirus to fast-track digital revolution
Social media was the second most popular source
06/12/2020
DWP directs savers to wrong pension tracing site
While the firm does not charge for tracing pensions, it does offer a pensions review with an adviser for a minimum fee of £500.
06/11/2020
Deutsche Bank to launch e-FX trading hub in Singapore
The Singapore e-FX hub will provide clients with the ability to execute FX transactions more closely aligned with geographic location, reducing latency, improving on local price transparency and liquidity.
06/10/2020
Why blockchain transcends insurtech and can drive growth for insurers – as well as cut costs
There is significant potential to drive efficiencies; allowing people to be redeployed to work on more value-added tasks, while at the same time driving better customer outcomes.
06/10/2020
ERI Bancaire Teams Up With IBM
The new offering hosted on IBM public cloud will give private banking customers more flexibility
06/10/2020
SimCorp merges European market units
The merged unit also creates several value-added synergies across key functions, such as sales.