Tagged: data

June 26, 2023 @ 7:45 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Hong Kong’s card payments market is “expected to grow by 4.8% to reach HKD1.06 trillion ($136.0 billion) in 2023, supported by an economic rebound and a growing consumer preference for electronic payments,” says GlobalData, a data and analytics company. According to GlobalData’s Payment Cards Analytics,… Read More

June 23, 2023 @ 12:21 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Provenir, which claims to be a global leader in data and AI-powered risk decisioning software, announced the appointment of Carol Hamilton as its Chief Product Officer. Based in Provenir’s London office, Hamilton will be “responsible for shaping the company’s global product strategy, overseeing product development… Read More

June 22, 2023 @ 2:29 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Genesis Global, the low-code application development platform purpose-built for financial markets organizations, announced it has “been certified as SOC 2 Type 2 compliant and adheres to the highest industry standards for data security.” The Systems and Organization Controls (SOC) standards are “governed by the American… Read More

June 22, 2023 @ 9:43 am By Omar Faridi  |  

JPMorgan Chase (NYSE: JPM) has reportedly appointed Teresa Heitsenrether to serve as the Head of a data and analytics division. This, according to a report from Bloomberg on Wednesday (June 21, 2023). This new appointment is part of the banking institution’s wider focus on artificial… Read More

June 21, 2023 @ 9:53 am By Omar Faridi  |  

We recently caught up with Valerii Brizhatiuk, Chief Product Officer, Co-Founder at Swisstronik, a layer-1 solution designed to build scalable decentralized applications that ensure users’ data protection and privacy, while remaining in compliance with local regulations. According to the project team, Swisstronik is unique because… Read More

June 20, 2023 @ 11:31 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Venture capital (VC) funding activity in the US experienced a significant decline from January to May 2023. A total of 3,532 VC funding deals of worth $55.3 billion “were announced in the US during the period.” This represents “a year-on-year (YoY) decline of 36.4% in… Read More

June 19, 2023 @ 10:51 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Truework says sit has reached a significant milestone in their journey as they “work towards creating trust in every financial transaction.” Truework has entered into a strategic partnership with TransUnion, one of the largest information and insights companies in the world. In addition, TransUnion has… Read More

June 18, 2023 @ 7:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today announced that Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, S.A. (BBVA), a global banking leader, will use AWS “to deliver advanced analytics and data services in the cloud, taking a decisive step in its data and… Read More

June 17, 2023 @ 4:10 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

One in every five global consumers surveyed in 2022 said they “fell victim to payments fraud in the last four years — 26.9% of whom are victims of Authorized Push Payment (APP) scams, which is the number one fraud threat globally” — according to the… Read More

June 15, 2023 @ 11:19 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The failure of several prominent banks, “highlighted the need for financial services institutions to better anticipate and manage risk.” To address these challenges, Oracle (NYSE: ORCL) has “launched new cloud-native services that can help banks strengthen their finance and risk management processes to reflect their… Read More

June 12, 2023 @ 7:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Earnix, the global provider of intelligent, composable, SaaS solutions for insurers, banks and auto lenders announced Pricing Accelerator, a pricing management workflow that enables business users and pricing committees “to make data-driven pricing decisions in real-time, accelerating organizational growth.” Dynamic pricing backed by analytical modeling… Read More

June 8, 2023 @ 5:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

BNY Mellon’s Pershing X, a technology provider within BNY Mellon | Pershing (NYSE: BK), debuted Wove, a wealth management platform that integrates the technology tools advisors use into a single, data-driven platform. Pershing X President Ainslie Simmonds, said: “When building Wove, we went beyond just… Read More

June 6, 2023 @ 9:51 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

AntChain announced a new collaboration with Intel to launch AntChain Massive Data Privacy-Preserving Computing Platform (MAPPIC), a new privacy-preserving computing (PPC) platform that brings a data privacy protection solution for large-scale AI machine learning. As a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform, MAPPIC is based “on the Trusted… Read More

June 3, 2023 @ 9:49 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Red Flag Alert are the UK’s provider of business data intelligence and analytics to predict growth, global compliance risk and insolvency, based in Manchester. The company have “announced £ 4.5 million in funding from Foresight and Uncapped.” The company, based in Manchester, where it “employs… Read More

June 2, 2023 @ 12:09 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Standard Life, part of Phoenix Group, has partnered with Moneyhub, the open finance data and payments fintech, “to enhance its digital app and dashboard, rolling out its own open finance powered tool, Money Mindset, to its existing 1.5 million workplace pension scheme members.” The addition… Read More

June 1, 2023 @ 6:31 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bud Financial Limited is now available in the Google Cloud partner directory. Bud’s presence allows companies to work with the data-intelligence fintech as “part of their annual spend, unlocking the benefits of a single commitment to Google Cloud.” It also enables current and future clients “to… Read More

June 1, 2023 @ 1:09 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

CAPE will develop property risk analytics leveraging structural attributes from Google geospatial data in order “to support innovation across the insurance industry and better protect homes and businesses” Protecting people, society, and the economy “means safeguarding homes, businesses, and other structures—especially from catastrophic weather events.”… Read More

May 29, 2023 @ 5:12 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Datasembly, the provider of real-time product pricing, promotions, and assortment data for retailers and CPG brands, announced it has secured $16 million in funding “led by Noro-Moseley Partners with participation from Grotech Ventures, Topmark Partners and Staley Capital.” Datasembly reportedly “provides critical software and tools… Read More

May 29, 2023 @ 5:08 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

API3 is pleased to announce our latest partnership with Dovish, a perpetual swap protocol in the DeFi ecosystem. With a commitment to bringing smart money into DeFi, Dovish is “utilizing API3’s data feeds for their upcoming perpetual decentralized exchange (DEX) launch on Polygon’s zkEVM.” After… Read More

May 29, 2023 @ 12:01 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

big xyt, the independent provider of smart data and analytics solutions to the global trading and investment community, announced the release of the Trade Verification Tool, which is described a “a new interactive service which returns the verification of price reversion and execution performance on… Read More