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Coutts Awarded "Most Innovative Digital Offering"

Private Banker International, a leading journal for the global wealth management industry, has awarded Coutts in the category of "Most Innovative Digital Offering" as the winner.

UK banks axe branches in favour of digital model

The bank is also expected to close a number of branches as part of a three-year strategy to create a more efficient high street network, responding to rapidly changing behaviour by consumers in the digital age.

Private Banker International Award for Avaloq

Private Banker International has announced today that Avaloq Asia Pacific has been awarded with the 2014 PBI Global Wealth Award in the category of “Outstanding Wealth Management Technology Provider – Most Effective Integrated Solution”

CHAPS unable to process payments

Any customer who is waiting for a CHAPS payment to settle today should speak to their own bank.”

Liechtenstein Private Bank Selects Appway Client Onboarding to Automate the Entire Client Lifecycle

With its strong record of seamless integration with Avaloq, Appway was selected for its ease of use as well as its exceptional implementation speed and low project risk.

French bank launches payment via Twitter

Money is now only a tweet away for French people, after one of the nation's banks launched a novel way to transfer money on the social networking platform.

BNP Paribas Launches Centric in Europe and Japan

The launch follows the successful roll out of the platform across 10 countries in Asia Pacific and the Middle East last year.

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Ortec Finance Successfully Implements Investment Performance Service for USS

Ortec Finance’s Investment Performance Service is an outsourced service for pension and sovereign wealth funds, bringing together technology and expertise to help funds quantify and understand the key investment performance drivers.

AIM Software wins 'Best EDM Platform' award again

The A-Team DMS Data Management Awards are designed to acknowledge excellence in the data management industry, with nominees selected from its readers in the financial sector, globally.

Cyber-criminals could spark next financial crisis

One of the UK's leading finance chiefs has warned that a cyber attack could bring much of the financial world grinding to a halt.

BNP Paribas selects Splunk ahead of Logscape despite bigger price tag

In order for the company to make the numbers available earlier, it needed a better product for its internal clients.

CaixaBank launches Gemalto-powered NFC mobile payment wristband

The device will be made available this month, and has already been distributed in preliminary volumes to account holders, and is also available at all CaixaBank branches.

Schroders Investment Management adopts ClusterSeven Spreadsheet Management

ClusterSeven’s end-user computing (EUC) management solutions enable financial services firms and other leading institutions to maintain the transparency and integrity

KBC signs for Deutsche Bank FX4Cash cross-currency payments tech

Deutsche Bank and KBC Bank today announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding to expand their cash management relationship.

Finacle head resigns, to be replaced by former SAP executive

This is the first major exit from Infosys ever since the new CEO Vishal Sikka took over on August 1. Industry sources said Sikka is getting executives from his erstwhile employer SAP to join Infosys.

Cofunds lines up Bravura to replace IFDS for tech contract

Bravura is understood to be in pole position to win the technology contract to power Cofunds, following months of negotiations, in a switch which would see it replace International Financial Data Services (IFDS).

400 European Banks Accept Bitcoin Purchase Agreement

More European banks are becoming associated with Bitcoin.

Bank of Ireland launches new tablet app

Bank of Ireland has added to its online banking offering by unveiling a new mobile banking app for the Apple iPad.

Societe Generale Securities Services extends T2S direct connectivity commitment

Societe Generale Securities Services, a leading custodian in the European market, has announced its intention to widen the scope of its implementation of direct connectivity to the Target-2 Securities platform.

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