Global fintech investment triples - Accenture
June 25, 2015 - Global investment in financial technology tripled last year to hit $12.2 billion, with the US market dominating, according to a report from Accenture and the Partnership Fund for New York City.
Singapore Exchange preps S$20m technology investment after outages
June 24, 2015 - The Singapore Exchange is set to spend S$20 million upgrading its technology and freeze its fees after being reprimanded by the city state's regulator over outages last year.
82% of financial institutions are failing to capitalise on regulation to drive business change
June 17, 2015 - Today, GFT, one of the world's leading IT solutions and consultancy providers to the banking sector, releases the findings from a global research project aimed at uncovering the attitude of the global investment banking community to 'The New Normal' - a constant state of regulatory change.
RBS suffers another IT meltdown as payments go astray
June 17, 2015 - Royal Bank of Scotland is scrambling to fix an IT glitch that caused over 600,000 transactions and hundreds of thousands of pounds in payments to go missing.
Banks resort to box-ticking to meet ovewhelming regulatory burden
June 17, 2015 - Today, GFT, one of the world's leading IT solutions and consultancy providers to the banking sector, releases the findings from a global research project aimed at uncovering the attitude of the global investment banking community to 'The New Normal' - a constant state of regulatory change.
Payments Council publishes ISO 20022 factsheet for real-time payments
June 17, 2015 - A ground-breaking agreement on international cooperation towards ISO 20022 has been reached following a roundtable facilitated by the Payments Council.
Business and IT leaders disagree on the future of data, according to new research
June 16, 2015 - Only 11% of business leaders believe data is generating value for companies.
RiskIQ uncovers ‘app attack’ threat to high street brands
June 16, 2015 - New research from RiskIQ, the Digital Footprint Security company, highlights the risks posed to UK organisation's and their customers from unauthorised or fraudulent mobile apps and unauthorised app stores. Companies spanning retailers, travel companies, media & entertainment, gambling firms and banks have far more mobile apps owned by them or referencing their brand than they are aware of, many of which come from a new breed of hacker intent on compromising their digital assets and putting their customers at risk.
