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Thursday, November 21, 2019
In 1994, Bill Gates said: “We need banking, but we don’t need banks anymore.” So why hasn’t Bill Gates opened a bank? Well, because technology giants don’t really want to be banks. Banking has a lot of the audit and compliance overhead, that tech giants don’t need or want. Big […]
Infrasoft Technologies Ltd (InfrasoftTech) is backed by its latest artificial intelligence product, Kiya.ai and Univius RegTech, that provides early detection of potential frauds in banks, said managing director and chief executive officer, Rajesh Mirjankar. IT company Infrasoft Technologies is planning further global expansion in the Caribbean and Bahamas while focusing […]
RegTech company, Evidology Systems, is launching a unique service combining real-time specialist legal opinion with principles-based regulations compliance software. Seen as a true second-generation solution, QED (Quality and Evidence Driven) is the only platform optimising the process of demonstrating compliance to regulation or standard. This visual system utilises current legal […]
As the retail apocalypse continues – with an estimated 8,600 closing their doors in 2019 – other retail survivors are upping their game with hard-to-find data scientists Retailers are on the hunt for data scientists, now more than ever. Given the rise in online shopping and the cut-throat competition from […]
Brexit has been delayed again, with the EU granting the UK another three-month extension to sort out its divorce from the other member states. The EU granted the extension until January 31 on Monday this week. Donald Tusk, the EU council president, warned that this delay “may be the last […]
A large portion of the market is yet to choose systems for Securities Financing Transactions Regulations (SFTR) compliance due to uneasiness around interpretations of the rules, according to Herve Carrere, director of post-trade product management at Finastra. “We can see that several firms are still in the phase of considering […]
This current year has already ushered in a tidal wave of tech innovations, from the rise of social robots and personal assistants to Amazon Prime’s one-day delivery gamble and the proliferation of voice search. The latter alone became a $1.8B retail segment in the US in 2017 and is predicted to rise […]
New Zealand now legally allow companies to pay salaries in cryptocurrency starting September 1, becoming the first nation to do so, according to a Financial Times report. The country requires the preferred cryptocurrency to be pegged to a standard currency and directly convertible into a normal form of payment. This […]
Benoît Cœuré, the executive board member of the European Central Bank, has told the German Bundestag that stablecoins like Facebook’s Libra initiative come with both risks and opportunities. He made the remarks on Wednesday, September 25. Cœuré commented that the “global payments system still faces two major challenges: access and […]
Temenos will showcase a completely zero-waste stand as part of its corporate social responsibility (CSR) program at Sibos. GENEVA, Switzerland – September 19, 2019 – Temenos (SIX: TEMN), the banking software company, today announced that as part of its corporate social responsibility (CSR) program at Sibos, the world’s premier financial […]
