Yorkshire Building Society has entered into a five year managed service agreement with contact centre specialist Sabio
Social investment outfit, eToro, has reached the landmark of 50 million trades by its users
Welcome Real-time is working with Aimia to deploy its Welcome XLS solution for the Commonwealth Bank of Australia’s Awards credit card loyalty scheme
France has replaced the UK as Europe’s leading fraud hotspot and now accounts for 29 per cent of card fraud losses across the region.
Research released by FICO also shows that most countries experienced a rise in 2012
The London Stock Exchange has hired John Mackay ‘Mack’ Gill as CEO of its tech subsidiary MillenniumIT
Awareness of contactless points and symbols amongst consumers has more than doubled in the last 12 months, although issues remain around security and trust
Commerzbank is to deploy Clear2Pay's Open Payment Framework (OPF) as a central platform for end-to-end XML processing
The year to 4 April 2013 saw Nationwide open over 365,000 new current accounts while 123,000 customers switched their main banking relationship, up 58 per cent on last year
It's now over a year since the legal requirement to record mobile communications to and from trading floors was introduced in the UK, and yet take-up has been sluggish
Visa Europe believes contactless usage has reached a critical point of adoption across Europe
Atos has been awarded an outsourcing contract to deliver customer-facing and back office services to NS&I’s 25 million customers
The Co-operative Bank has been addressing customers' contactless concerns on its Twitter feed
A new research report from RBR argues that banks in the USA should take advantage of the full power of the EMV chip
Al-Dhabi Investment (ADI), the UAE private investment firm, is to extend its coverage into new asset classes and financial instruments
Financial services institutions need to abandon the traditional, evolutionary approach towards IT if they are to rebuild damaged consumer trust
Espion has won a five year tender to deliver an eDiscovery management system for the Central Bank of Ireland
Allied Irish Bank (AIB) has chosen Spaces by Moxie as the platform for its multi-channel customer service initiatives
Integration of the risk and finance business functions is a top priority for 88 per cent of bank practitioners, although 54 per cent are yet to implement an enterprise level plan to achieve integration
Financial Services Institution of the Year and Compliance Project of the Year are among the categories at the FStech/Retail Systems Payments Awards
Infosecurity Europe 2013 pulled in 13,200 visitors during its three day run last month, a six per cent increase on the previous year
New Zealand market operator NZX’s trading and market data services will now be accessible to members of the BT Radianz Cloud community
Holland's Credit Europe Bank has implemented SDX from SuperDerivatives
South Africa-based Standard Bank has appointed BMC to a five year multi-service document management and presentation services contract
The High Street’s big hitters are letting customers down with poor levels of service and a below par online banking experience
Social investment network, eToro, has been greenlighted by the FCA to offer financial services to its users under a UK broker licence
Monitise has launched a white-labelled mobile payments service pitched at banks, mobile operators and acquirers
Just under six million of us regularly tell white lies or embellish stories on our social media channels
Whilst IT-business alignment is improving, many IT departments still face a challenge in expanding network services and organising their network strategies to meet the requirements of the businesses they work for
The Co-operative Banking Group has issued a response to the recent Moody’s rating agency downgrade
China is set to overtake the USA as the world’s largest ATM market
Big Data Strategies Financial Services & Consumer Products is set to take place in London on 19-20 June
Accenture has acquired Fjord, a London-based digital design consultancy whose clients include BBVA, Citibank and PayPal
VocaLink is celebrating the five year anniversary of the Faster Payments Service in the UK, with 2.5 billion transactions processed since launch
Over two thirds of people plan to swap their financial products or providers for ones that provide a better deal or improved communication channels
SWIFT Innotribe will hold the Asian leg of its annual Startup Challenge in Singapore on 16 May at InnovFest 2013
Compuware Corporation has released the results of a global CIO survey on attitudes and practices relating to the use of customer data in outsourced mainframe application development and maintenance
Sainsbury's is closing in on full ownership of Sainsbury's Bank
The Hong Kong Mercantile Exchange (HKMEx) has joined the BT Radianz Cloud community
ISIS Equity Partners has completed a £14 million investment to back an MBO of Red Box Recorders
Metro Bank opened its 18th store (in Slough) at the weekend, its first with a drive-thru facility
Cornish Mutual reports rapid growth since it started working with Transactor Global Solutions
Golomt Bank, Mongolia’s largest private banking and financial services provider, is implementing Infosys Finacle
Northdoor has completed a major data migration project for insurance provider, Markel International
The insurance industry must be prepared for future market challenges, the quickening pace of customer-driven commerce and the continuing spread of the digital economy
Don't miss your chance to enter the 2013 FStech/Retail Systems Payments Awards
Ukash customers will soon be able to send money transfers from its website and receive it at any of MoneyGram’s 310,000 plus locations or via MoneyGram’s account deposit channels
Mashreq Bank has implemented Oracle FLEXCUBE Universal Banking and FLEXCUBE Direct Banking across Qatar, UAE, Kuwait and Bahrain
American Savings Bank reports ‘phenomenal’ user adoption since the launch of its mobile banking and payments offering
Germany's Dortmunder Volksbank is introducing a contactless mobile payments service
34 per cent of smartphone owners will be ‘very likely’ or ‘likely’ to purchase more items from their mobile device thanks to 4G technology and faster internet connections
South Bangla Agriculture & Commerce Bank (SBAC) has gone live with T24 from Temenos
Chase has topped a Forrester mobile banking survey. la Caixa is the leader in Europe while the UK’s banks are still lagging behind
US brokerage and banking company Charles Schwab was the victim of a DDoS attack this week
Exponential-e is providing Baines and Ernst with high-speed business internet
New speakers and panellists have been announced for the FStech Multi-Channel Banking Summit
IndusInd Bank has selected Calypso Technology’s cross-asset front-to-back solution to grow its treasury activities, increase global markets business and manage risk
36 per cent of Brits believe that online identity fraud or information theft is unavoidable in the future
Many US consumers would provide more private information in exchange for a more personalised service, higher security against identity theft and greater simplicity in managing their finances
SWIFT Innotribe has selected five finalists from the European leg of its annual Startup Challenge to compete at Sibos 2013 in Dubai
Banks must improve the customer experience or continue to risk losing business
Nationwide Building Society customers have been unable to use online and mobile banking services today
The speed of technological advances and consumer expectations are the primary drivers of the evolution of the payments industry
Scottish Widows Investment Partnership has launched a new website for its asset management business
Silicon Valley Bank has provided Brandwatch with a £1.5 million venture debt facility
BIAN has welcomed four new members to the fold, including its first US bank, PNC Financial Services Group
Barclays, Lloyds Banking Group, Credit Suisse, RBS, Temenos and Misys were among the winners at the 2013 FStech Awards
One in four consumers do not trust any organisations with securing their personal details online
SAS and Deloitte have released a social sentiment analysis index of customers’ opinions about the banking industry
SunGard is to provide Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank (ADIB) with retail banking solutions
Temenos, BT Radianz Venue Interconnect and Eze Castle Integration are in the running for Cloud Computing Innovation of the Year at the 2013 FStech Awards
Big banks may be considered too big to fail, but their size and operational complexity create performance drags that could also make them too big to succeed
Northdoor has implemented its NdexInsure solution for speciality insurer Torus
18 central banks and government organisations in Asia Pacific have recently rolled out the Thomson Reuters Eikon platform
Research carried out by Ipsos MORI and commissioned by Verint demonstrates a very low level of customer satisfaction with retail FS in the UK
Aktia is utilising SunGard’s Ambit Capital Management solution
Bottomline Technologies has launched V-Series, a technology platform for real-time validation and verification of UK bank accounts
ZUNO Bank has implemented FICO Capstone Decision Accelerator in a private cloud for its online lending business
first direct has commissioned a research project involving the addictiveness of social media
Intuit Pay, which launched on iOS in March, is now also available on Android
Kalixa Group has unveiled a series of payments products set to roll-out across Europe, the Americas, Asia Pacific and the Middle East
One million bus journeys in London have now been paid for using a contactless debit, credit or charge card
Mizuho Corporate Bank Nederland (MCBN) has selected Wolters Kluwer Financial Services’ regulatory reporting solution in order to comply with the prudential reporting requirements in the Netherlands and in Belgium
Markel has gone live on Sequel's Eclipse Underwriting software
European retail banks are still hesitating to fully integrate social media into their digital marketing strategies
Last year’s RBS IT meltdown is to be investigated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)
Israel’s Bank Leumi has selected Calypso Technology to provide a full cross-asset, front-to-back office solution to support its core capital markets business
A new Avanade survey of CIOs and IT leaders reveals worrying trends in financial sector applications
Faster Payments has reported its busiest period thus far, following an end of tax year rush to move money and pay bills
An investigation by the Met’s PCeU has led to the arrest of eight people behind a phishing attack that netted them a woman's £1 million lifesavings
The FStech Multi-Channel Banking Summit will feature speakers/panellists from Santander, HSBC, Clearwater Corporate Finance and IDC Financial Insights
eToro’s new Social Alerts application is now available for Android and shortly for iOS
Bloomberg has become the first financial information platform to integrate real-time Twitter feeds directly into the investment workflows of market professionals
Wells Fargo experienced a DDoS attack yesterday, leaving customers unable to access online and mobile bankings services
A lack of face-to-face interaction with online FS shoppers is harming e-commerce sales
SunGard’s Ambit Risk and Performance solutions have found favour among another batch of Nordic banks
The Mt. Gox Bitcoin exchange has been subjected to a major DDOS attack
HP has launched a solution aimed at making it faster and cheaper to process proactive payments of PPI claims in the UK
payleven has become the first mobile payment provider to be fully authorised by the FSA as a payment institution
The NICE Fizzback Voice of the Customer solution has been selected by Virgin Money
There have been declines in the depth and quality of interactions between customers and their banks, as new loyalty challenges emerge
CGI Group has launched an updated brand for its UK operation following the acquisition of Logica
OANDA has announced an update to its fxTrade offering for iPhone, iPad, and Android devices
South African fund administrator Curo Fund Services has selected Milestone Group’s pControl platform to service multi-manager and life clients
There are dangerously poor attitudes within the UK FS sector to business critical data managed in spreadsheets and similar databases
Weak market growth and a raft of impending regulation means the buy-side will increase IT budgets in 2013
BT has signed an agreement with CME Group to enable the BT Radianz Cloud community access to its trading and market data services
Cirencester friendly has inked a deal with Capita Financial Software involving its adviser portal, Webline
Nationwide has launched an iOS and Android app for customers to manage their personal finances
Temenos has acquired Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) technology provider TriNovus
True Potential Investments has added four new Allianz Global Investors funds to its Wealth Platform
More than 700,000 London bus fares have been paid for by contactless since TfL rolled it out in December
Griffins, an insolvency and forensic services firm, is using IBM Big Data analytics software
FICO has released data showing which states were hardest hit by ATM compromises across the US last year
UK startup Droplet has announced Chiltern Railways and Airparks as the first national organisations to adopt its m-payment platform
The 2013 Budget has underlined the ineffectiveness of cash savings, argues FS firm True Potential
X-Trade Brokers has moved to the cloud with Google Apps
The majority of Europe’s FS organisations are concerned about the security of their documents
CGI Group has been selected by ZLM Insurances to support the firm’s SEPA compliance programme
Technology spending is set to continue to rise among Asian financial institutions
Church International is sponsoring the IT Team of the Year category at the 2013 FStech Awards
Bango, eToro, Fidessa, mPowa and The Currency Cloud are among the companies included on the FinTech 50 Watchlist
NICE Actimize’s anti-money laundering solutions have been selected by Indonesia’s PT Bank Central Asia Tbk (BCA)
A sharp rise in tablet adoption will drive users of transactional tablet banking services to almost 200 million in 2017
Royal Bank of Scotland has launched an online Ideas Bank portal
Coventry Building Society is using Vizolution’s screen sharing technology vScreen to improve its service to mortgage intermediaries
The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) SEPA Accelerator is now available
Experian has announced a renewal of its partnership with Nationwide for the provision of credit reference and electronic authentication services
Intuit Pay, the m-payment solution from Intuit, is launching in the UK, with a free chip and PIN device and app
eWise has secured a multi-year agreement with Yorkshire Building Society to bring PFM services to its online customers
Temenos is to provide Caisse Financial Group with a suite of products including T24, Insight and Temenos Connect
Paragon Mortgages has launched a case management solution for brokers
True Potential Investments now has £1 billion-worth of assets under management, two years on from the launch of its Wealth platform
ACI Worldwide has bought Online Resources Corporation, a provider of online banking and full service bill pay solutions
Ixaris and Anthemis have released a report identifying global trends in payments innovation and future opportunities and challenges
The UK's Serious Fraud Office (SFO) is investigating the sale of Autonomy to Hewlett Packard
Nationwide says that its new banking platform has made it possible to reach a major milestone in its transformation project
IT firms are twice as bad as financial services organisations for using waffle and jargon
Aviva has introduced online ratings and reviews from those who have bought a home or motor insurance policy with the insurer
Australia's Commonwealth Bank has launched social banking app, CommBank Kaching for Facebook
Each year six million people in the UK cut ties with organisations because of concerns about security in customer service
Temenos has extended its 10-year relationship with microfinance organisation Opportunity International to develop social reporting capabilities into Temenos Insight
Barclays has appointed Shaygan Kheradpir to the role of chief operations and technology officer
RBS has said it will compensate customers who faced problems with online, phone banking, cash withdrawals and debit card payments
NatWest has apologised for technical problems which left many customers unable to use online and phone banking and make cash withdrawals and debit card payments
Monitise has partnered with another leading UK financial institution as part of a three-year mobile money services deal
Wincor Nixdorf has launched a tool enabling UK banks to provide customers with smartphone apps to make debit card-free withdrawals from ATM
New figures from the National Debtline Service suggest a 94 per cent increase in consumer calls relating to payday loans in 2012
Mobile banking on Android phones could put consumers at risk of fraud and cost banks millions a year
Portable account numbers would be welcomed by customers across the world, according to a YouGov study conducted by BT
VeriFone and SK C&C are partnering on digital wallet services, acceptance solutions and mobile commerce
Compliance professionals globally continue to struggle under the weight of global regulation
The global ATM market is set to continue to grow, largely thanks to a huge demand for cash withdrawal services in the coming years, particularly from emerging markets
Microgen is to provide software solutions for Discover Financial Services to help integrate and process a high volume of customer, transaction and finance data
The value of sales through smartphones and tablets hit £7.5 billion in 2012
High Street banks and building societies often need only small changes to their technologies and modest investments to succeed in a tough economy
BBVA Compass has selected Keynote’s DeviceAnywhere platform to test its portfolio of mobile apps during the development process
Gemalto’s UpTeq NFC SIM and AllynisTrusted Services Management (TSM) platform are at the core of Brazil’s first mobile NFC payment programme
Indonesian financial institution PermataBank, BlackBerry and Monitise have announced the commercial pilot launch of BBM Money
Proxama has partnered with Experience Worldwide to provide the NFC platform for a UK-wide field promotion of the new BlackBerry Z10
First Data Corporation has signed an issuing processing contract with VTB Bank (Deutschland)
A new Visa/Samsung alliance is aiming to significantly accelerate the availability of mobile payments globally
Oxygen8 Group is stepping up the global roll-out of its mobile money transfer hub, Bridge
61 per cent of financial organisations suffered data loss events in the second half of 2012
Visa has launched a new partner programme designed to drive the global migration from cash to electronic payments
SumUp has signed a deal that will allow it to process American Express card payments in all major regions in which it operates
Ukash has welcomed reports that incoming Bank of England governor Mark Carney could introduce Canadian-style plastic cash
Experian has enhanced Hunter, its data-sharing fraud prevention software
Banco Santander is the first bank in Spain to enable the self‑employed and micro merchants to accept card payments with smartphones and tablets
Transactor Global Solutions is the new system provider to specialist household general insurance intermediary, Highworth Insurance
81 per cent of those interested in new digital payment methods are more likely to adopt such services if they are provided by their bank
Many cash payments are continuing to migrate to debit card, but it’s also possible to see the demise of plastic at the hands of the mobile phone
TIBCO Software has completed the first stage of a Renaissance Capital Big Data project
A new study reveals that 39 per cent of FS organisations have not invested in business technology for two years
CaixaBank, Gemalto, Telefonica and Visa Europe are gearing up to deliver an m-payments service at Mobile World Congress
The Guardian has teamed up with Zurich on a Life Navigator web app designed to help readers make the most of their money
Barclays is set to become the first major UK High Street bank to offer free in branch Wi-fi access for its customers
The online customer experience provided by UK insurers has deteriorated over the last year, with 48 per cent of basic online questions answered satisfactorily
A fundamental lack of understanding about who the customer is means insurers are facing a “through the looking glass” moment
Actiance has announced the availability of the Socialite Engage mobile app for the iPhone
Coast Capital Savings Credit Union has gone live with the core banking system, Temenos T24, to process approx 450,000 transactions per day
Consumer trust in their banks has not been shaken by negative headlines or an influx of new and non-traditional entrants to the banking sector
Citi has announced the launch in the Dominican Republic of Citi Mobile Collect
Visa has announced the launch of a plug-and-play mobile money platform
MarkitSERV and Misys have partnered to offer an end-to-end solution for the latter’s CMS customers to deliver FX derivative trades to CCPs
Card issuers using FICO Falcon Fraud Manager have cut card-not-present (CNP) fraud losses from credit cards over the last two years
Nationwide Building Society will be offering the V.me by Visa digital wallet in 2013
Share price volatility is affected by public opinion on social media sites such as Twitter and Facebook
Erste Group Bank is to implement Asset Control’s AC Plus enterprise data management solution
American Express has introduced a service enabling its cardholders to turn Twitter hashtags into purchases
Temenos is today launching LiveDesigner at Finovate Europe
New forex broker ForexTime has announced the start of its operations with the activation of its CIF licence and the launch of its website
Monitise has issued its financial results for the six months to 31 December 2012
ME Bank has launched Australia’s first workplace banking kiosk at Telstra’s contact centre in Melbourne’s CBD
True Office has inked a product development and distribution partnership with Thomson Reuters
Denmark’s Jyske Bank has gone live with SmartStream’s TLM Corporate Actions solution
Fundamo, MicroStrategy and Omgeo are in the running for Technology Provider of the Year (Rest of the World) at the 2013 FStech Awards
Bank of America Merrill Lynch GTS has announced the launch of the CashPro Accelerate reporting solution across Asia Pacific
Banks must identify how they can modernise their operations to suit a 21st century digital economy
Bank of Ireland customers can now make payments from one mobile to another
Digital consumers are starting to tire of their personal data being collected across the internet, says Ovum
Visa Europe contactless cards will be issued to two million plus RBS and NatWest UK customers over the next year
Amazon Coins, a virtual currency for purchasing apps, games and in-app items on Kindle Fire, is due to launch in the US during May
Portugal Telecom is to offer mPowa's white label m-payments service to local merchants and financial institutions
Sterling Insurance Group has launched a new software company, Sterling Technologies, targeting FS clients
Retail banks across the globe will see IT spending grow 3.4 per cent, reaching $118.6 billion in 2013
Metro Bank has welcomed Chancellor George Osborne’s reminder that customers will soon be able to switch their current account provider within seven working days.
Bill Safran, former CEO at Trigold, has launched a new business called Vizolution
The dire state of SEPA compliance across the EU could cost the Eurozone up to €20 billion
Fundtech has released the results of a recent survey on banks’ sentiments towards Dodd-Frank section 1073
ABN AMRO and Equens have signed a three-year contract for the processing of all the former’s card payments
The National Bank of Abu Dhabi (NBAD) has selected BT to connect its expanding network of regional and global operations
Bank Technique OJSC has selected Oracle FLEXCUBE Universal Banking to replace a Temenos T24 core banking platform
Barclaycard is to become an American Express card issuing partner in the UK
The Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) is deploying Recommind’s Axcelerate Review & Analysis
Seven financial technology entrepreneurs have been selected to participate in the inaugural FinTech Innovation Lab London
Retail is bracing itself for transition as mobile payments dominate industry conversation in 2013
Welcome Real-time has announced the availability of the Welcome Analytics Portal
Aviva has introduced an iPad app to Fast Trade, its trading platform providing brokers with the facility to ‘quote and buy’ online in less than five minutes
Integritie has launched SMC4, pitched as the world’s first social media content management tool
If Coronation Street's Gail McIntyre had been more security savvy, she would not have fallen victim to conman Lewis Archer’s £40,000 internet banking scam
NIG has launched TheHub, a full-cycle e-trading platform
Automated decisions made by computer programmes have cost 37 per cent of European FS organisations money at least once in the past six months
Ingenico is to acquire Ogone, the pan-European online payment services provider, for €360 million
Credit card issuers have yet to solve how to best use Facebook et al to drive increased engagement and loyalty
National Bank of Malawi is implementing Misys Global Risk - Regulatory Compliance to enable it to comply with Basel II
The corporate and investment banking division of Standard Bank has chosen Caplin to provide the framework for its new SDP
BT, Monitise and ValidSoft are in the running for Technology Provider of the Year (UK) at the 2013 FStech Awards
CGI Group and Monitise have joined forces to offer mobile money solutions to banking and payments companies using the latter’s technology platform
Barclaycard, eToro, Thomson Reuters and Wonga.com are in the running for Best Use of Social Media at the 2013 FStech Awards
Banks are placing greater emphasis on capital planning and stress testing to address regulations like Basel III, but 45 per cent still do not have well-formulated and defined plans in this area
New research released by Kinetic Partners reveals that even though 48 per cent of financial services CEOs believe that senior managers should be spending between 20 per cent to 40 per cent of their time on risk management and compliance, 31 per cent admit that this standard is not being achieved
Retail banking had one of the highest social media marketing spends last year, but this will only increase incrementally in 2012 and 2013
80 per cent of Brits think that government and law enforcement agencies do an average or below average job of fighting card or account fraud
Unite has hit out at Lloyds Banking Group's decision to offshore 190 IT jobs
Forrester is gearing up to release its 2012 global banking platform deals survey
Barclaycard, Barclays, HSBC Merchant Services and Skrill are among the companies shortlisted in the Payments Innovation of the Year category at the 2013 FStech Awards
Sixty four per cent of IT & IT security practitioners report that their banks have suffered at least one DDoS attack in the last 12 months
Banchile has selected Fidessa’s Latin American sell-side trading platform to underpin its institutional trading activity
International fund administrator, Maitland, has selected Fiserv's Accurate Reconciliation
HSBC Expat has launched HSBC Expat Hints & Tips, aimed at those about to move abroad or currently living or working overseas
The takeover of customer accounts increased last year by 53 per cent from 2011
Barclays, RBS, Lloyds Banking Group, Credit Suisse, Temenos, Monitise and BT are among the companies shortlisted for the 2013 FStech Awards
Maitland is using Milestone Group’s pControl platform to enable it to provide an enhanced administration service to multi-manager clients in South Africa
Fifty nine per cent of UK adults who’ve made an insurance claim think that the process is too complicated
The UK Payments Council has delayed the launch of its mobile payments project from 2013 to spring 2014
Cognizant has been selected by Rabobank to deliver application services to drive operational efficiencies and improve productivity
Moneycorp has selected Adapt’s Enterprise Virtual Data Centre (eVDC) solution
Mobile Payments Solution of the Year and Best Use Of Social Media are among the categories at the FStech/Retail Systems Payments Awards
NCR’s mobile solutions for hospitality and retail are to be integrated with PayPal’s digital payment technology
Cambodia’s ACLEDA Bank is upgrading to the latest version of Temenos’ core banking system, T24 R12
Red Box Recorders has launched a Chinese language version of its Quantify recording suite
Twenty three large US retailers are now able to accept payment by PayPal in-store
WorldPay and MoneyGram have entered into a strategic alliance to expand the latter’s direct-to-account money transfer service in up to 50 countries
first direct is giving customers the chance to comment upon its credit card redesign ideas
IT2 Treasury Solutions has been sold to Wall Street Systems by Nordic investment outfit CapMan
U.S. Bank customers are being invited to try a new mobile payment service, U.S. Bank Go Mobile
The former head of business continuity at Lloyds Banking Group is suing his ex-employer for £1 million in lost earnings
Over one billion mobile phone users will have made use of their mobile devices for banking purposes by the end of 2017
RBS and NatWest have announced the launch of BizCrowd, a free-to-use online business supplier community
Alan Steel Asset Management, an independent IFA, has chosen to protect its data with cloud backup and recovery provider Securstore
Many financial institutions expect FATCA client identification to be moderately or extremely difficult due to data issues
FStech has teamed up with sister title, Retail Systems, to launch the Payments Awards
Diebold has developed the first ATM that includes integration with mobile devices via the cloud
Selftrade, the UK execution-only stockbroker, has appointed Greenlight to manage the SEO of its new website launched in December
Barclays is set to significantly reduce its IT spending by developing its own cloud-based technology, according to The Sunday Times.
Thomson Reuters has launched a solution to help institutions fulfill and comply with their FATCA obligations
GT Nexus and TradeCard have entered into a definitive merger agreement
SunGard has acquired XcitekSolutionsPlus (XSP). Terms of the deal were not disclosed
J.P. Morgan has announced the global roll-out of J.P. Morgan Markets, its new multi-asset class trading platform
Okasan Securities, an independent securities company based in Tokyo, has selected Fidessa’s Japanese trading platform for its proprietary trading business
FStech has been asking leading industry players for their take on key 2013 financial sector technology trends
Ninety one per cent of consumers would only be willing to spend £25 per hour for financial advice from a supermarket or retailer
Saudi Hollandi Bank (SHB) has selected a solution from Misys as part of its strategy to upgrade its trade finance and cash management online services
The mobile wallet is very unlikely to take off this year, according to ICM Research
NCR has purchased US video banking software outfit uGenius Technology
First Data is to provide outsourced issuing and payment processing services for SK bank’s debit, credit and prepaid card portfolios
MahiFX is giving traders the ability to instantly share their trading inspiration and strategies with their social trading community and friends
Many are sounding the death knell for the retail banking branch but it remains the key channel in the banking delivery mix
SIX Payment Services wrapped up 2012 having completed several strategic partnerships and projects
Man Group has gone live with SWIFT’s global Electronic Trade Confirmation (GETC) messaging service
A computer systems crash at Lloyds Banking Group left New Year revellers unable to withdraw cash
BMO Bank of Montreal and Monitise have entered into an alliance to develop mobile money services via the latter's platform
NFC will fail to gain mass adoption and the debate around it will slowly die in 2013, according to PayPal
Nordea Bank S.A. has moved to standardise its technology infrastructure on Temenos applications
Four topics will dominate the financial services market in 2013, according to Frost & Sullivan
A new survey reveals a picture of dissatisfaction in outsourced mainframe application development, maintenance and infrastructure management
TeleWare has announced findings from the first survey of FS organisations following changes to FSA regulations around call recording
PayPal has teamed with InComm to launch a pre-paid card called PayPal My Cash Card
Fifty two per cent of corporates in the SEPA zone have not yet started their SEPA project and almost a quarter of these have not even started to investigate the issue
Oxygen8 Money has been granted an Authorised e-Money Licence by the FSA
Wipro Technologies has launched Wipro SmartOffers, a location based solution for banks, in partnership with Intuition Intelligence
Monitise and Intuit are forging a strategic alliance focused on delivering Mint to financial institutions through the former’s Enterprise technology platform
Adults across the UK are increasingly fatalistic about their level of online risk, according to a new study
As of today, London's buses accept contactless debit, credit or charge cards to pay for fares
Virtual Piggy has entered into a strategic partnership with WorldPay facilitating further expansion of the former’s e-commerce service
Tech spending in the FS sector is being driven by the need to improve efficiencies and reduce costs rather than simply complying with new regulations
Bacs Payment Schemes (Bacs) has launched a Direct Debit Control Centre mobile app
Aviva has launched a free ‘fees-ability’ iPad app, the aim of which is to help advisers achieve optimum service levels for their clients in the wake of the RDR
Only a minority of FS providers exploit the potential of web 2.0 tools, according to a new study from GFT
The MasterCard rePower service, which transforms cash into electronic money on a prepaid account, has launched in the UK
Consumer awareness surrounding contactless mobile payments is on the rise, according to eDigitalResearch
Salford Software has commenced a three year contract to provide an Identity Management managed service for Mazars
63 per cent of the UK’s High Street banks are responding to customers within an hour of receiving complaints and queries on Twitter
RSA has selected PensionsFirst to provide advanced analytics on its UK pension plans
Holiday 2012 is the time when mobile really hit the mainstream in the US, according to PayPal
iState Systems has reached agreement with Axcess Canada to sell and distribute its FS oriented smartphone applications
U.S. Bank has entered into a strategic mobile technology partnership with Mitek
Twelve per cent of Brits have made a note of their PIN and carried it with them or kept it with their card in the last five years
Tufin Technologies has announced SIX as the first customer to deploy its new product, SecureApp, in a production environment
OpenFin has announced the launch of OpenFin Desktop, enabling FS firms to deploy high-performance, interactive trading applications using HTML5
MarkitSERV, the electronic trade processing service for OTC derivative transactions, is now transmitting yen rates trades to Japan Securities Clearing Corporation (JSCC) through its network
Just three per cent of UK organisations have migrated or are in the process of migrating to SEPA direct debits
Experian predicts that there will be a dramatic increase in attempted mortgage fraud in the UK next year
A new survey of UK accountants reveals the profession, once thought of as being behind the social media curve, is growing its day-to-day involvement
Orange Business Services - Trading Solutions has announced an Open Trade client win in China
Heartland Financial USA has selected SunGard’s Ambit Commercial Lender to help improve its commercial lending operations
first direct has given a sneak peek of its new ‘Banking on the Go’ app for Android and iPhone
Almost one third of Brits would pay for food and drink in a restaurant using an app, according to research by Skrill
American Express and TNS have announced that the American Express Payment Gateway will now be available in France
Intuit has launched an m-payments pilot programme in the UK, pitched at small businesses
Capgemini has announced the findings of a survey examining the global uptake of enterprise cloud and its key drivers and barriers
Intelligent Environments has unveiled Interact, an integrated platform for digital financial services
Telefónica and MasterCard have unveiled MFS, a JV which will develop mobile payment solutions in Brazil
Temenos T24 is being used as the platform for M-Shwari, the latest iteration of the M-Pesa mobile money offering
Monitise is looking to raise £100 million in fresh funds in its largest fundraising round to date.
Bank of America is to offer Visa’s digital wallet V.me and has begun piloting the service to its online banking customers
BlueCrest Capital Management has chosen Calypso Technology’s front office solution to support its funds
Societe Generale is to migrate its UK corporate customer base to 3SKey, SWIFT’s digital identity solution
Fjord has worked with Turkish bank Garanti on a new iPhone, iPad and Android personal finance app
The total amount lent by Zopa savers to borrowers has passed £250 million
Mike Lynch, the founder of Autonomy, has hit out again at HP allegations that it was lied to during its acquisition of the British banking software outfit
Aviva’s driver behavioural app has launched on the Google Play app store following a test phase during the summer
Retail banks, torn between the opposing pressures of cost reduction and the need to invest in innovation, will begin to address the balance in 2013
Research In Motion says that more than 50 carriers have now implemented integrated carrier billing on the BlackBerry App World storefront
HSBC Merchant Services is the first merchant acquirer in the UK to offer MasterCard PayPass 3.0 payment processing to its customers
IT teams in FS organisations are becoming much more strategic but IT departments are struggling to cope
The FSA has fined UBS £29.7 million for systems and controls failings that allowed Kweku Adoboli to cause losses totalling $2.3 billion as a result of unauthorised trading
The UK’s banking brands and building societies see information services as crucial to forging richer relationships to enhance customer loyalty and their competitiveness
SIX Payment Services has launched the payments processing tech behind the world’s first dual Maestro and MasterCard display card with contactless and e-commerce functionalities
Sixty one per cent of UK consumers go straight to the internet for money management advice, bypassing their bank’s own websites
CIMB Securities has gone live with Fidessa’s SaaS trading platform to cover Thailand, Indonesia, Taiwan, Korea and India
Recent research from KNEIP reveals 82 per cent of fund managers feel that heavy regulation is the main issue facing the industry over the coming 12 months
Mike Lynch, the founder of Autonomy, has hit back at HP allegations that it was lied to during its acquisition of the British banking software outfit
Time is running out to enter the 2013 FStech Awards, which are set to take place on Thursday, 17 April at the London Lancaster Hotel
Consult Hyperion has released its results for the financial year to 31 March 2012
Trintech is rolling out its Cadency offering throughout the EMEA region
M-payment page optimisation and screen size are impacting the number of consumers willing to purchase goods and services on their mobiles
HP has slammed former members of management at Autonomy, the UK software house it acquired last year in a deal worth $12 billion
Thomson Reuters has added an interactive map for monitoring the impact of weather, natural disasters and political events on commodity production and freight to its flagship desktop, Eikon
Barclaycard is using a mix of traditional and social media to promote PayTag
TeleWare has completed the 2012 penetration testing conducted on its hosted communications platforms that deliver its mobile call recording and voice applications as cloud-based services
Australia’s ME Bank has selected Temenos software to underpin its technology transformation programme
Reply Group has launched Pay Reply, specialising in mobile payments consulting services and platforms
MahiFX, the online FX trading platform, has launched a new online currency converter tool
There are now more than 40 million contactless cards across Europe, according to figures issued by Visa
Exponential-e has designed and deployed a VPLS network across the core sites of London Capital Group
Renaissance Credit has launched on Temenos T24 for microfinance and community banking
BT Radianz services will be used to host and manage Squawker’s technology infrastructure, and provide brokers with access to the electronic trading venue
Despite an intensely challenging environment, banks around the world are increasing their investments in innovation
Third party service providers are becoming an ever more critical element of business continuity planning capabilities in many institutions
Monitise has ranked number three in the 2012 Deloitte Technology Fast 50
BT has been chosen by Mizuho International to help integrate its trading and CRM systems
New research from Skrill reveals mobile payments are being rapidly driven by transactions of £10 or under
VocaLink has processed the two billionth payment through the UK Faster Payments Service
iZettle mini chip-card readers can now be purchased exclusively in 297 of EE’s UK stores and from its telesales channel
The TALL Group of Companies has obtained accreditation from the Zambia Electronic Clearing House to print cheques and drafts on behalf of banks and businesses based in the country
MIDAS Underwriting has selected Transactor Global Solutions Ltd as its new software supplier
Oncore IT has signed a three year contract with London & Capital to provide a public cloud-based backup solution
FX Alliance has announced that Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan and Morgan Stanley have connected to its electronic foreign exchange trading platform
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined Prudential £50,000 and issued a warning to the financial sector
Deutsche Bank is to provide access to its fund administration services and research and analytical tools via the Autobahn App Market
A depressed world economy and tougher regulation will make the financial markets rally to IT in order to underpin more risk-averse business strategies
MahiFX has launched a customisable trading and price alert notification system for its currency and precious metal traders
Mobile payments and the story of NFC to date dominated the 2012 FStech/Retail Systems Payments Technology Conference
The Banking Industry Architecture Network’s latest members include its first Asian bank, Bangkok Bank
There have so far been 1.2 million downloads of Barclays Pingit and an impressive £70 average transaction
RBS has reported a pre-tax loss of £1.26 billion for the third quarter, against a £2 billion profit a year earlier
Consumers making use of banking services via their smartphones are increasingly being targeted by cybercriminals
Market participants are not prepared for shorter settlement cycles, despite being in favour of a move to T+2
Nomura has selected Fidessa’s trading platform to support its futures and options trading activity
The vast majority of UK businesses hold consumer credit card data unwittingly, risking PCI DSS breaches and ICO fines
Legal & General Investment Management has signed up for Omgeo’s central trade matching service
ING Bank Netherlands has selected Oracle’s Fusion Human Capital Management solution
Only 11 per cent of British consumers trust retailers more than High Street banks to handle their financial affairs
Gemalto is to help Vodafone Group manage its global NFC mobile payments roll-out
The number of active mobile money users in emerging markets is forecasted to grow from 61 million in 2011 at a CAGR of 36 per cent to reach 381 million by 2017
The 2012 FStech/Retail Systems Payments Technology Conference is fast approaching
A Payments Council report has found that the elderly and disabled people face a series of barriers in accessing and using payment systems
Precious metals market BullionVault has launched a new mobile interface and Android app
Spain’s la Caixa has launched the first ever mobile application that tracks stock markets using music
A payments trial involving biometric and contactless technologies has kicked off in France
BBVA will be the first financial institution to launch Visa’s V.me digital wallet in Spain
NICE Actimize has acquired Redkite, a fellow technology vendor in the financial crime space
A new study reveals consumers in six developing countries are already highly aware of mobile money services
The Dedicated Cheque and Plastic Crime Unit has dismantled what is believed to be one of the UK’s biggest counterfeit cheque crime groups
XAnge Private Equity is taking a £1.2 million equity stake in the FX Capital group
Millions of High Street bank customers would be likely to switch providers if it was easier to do so
National payments schemes must adapt to stay relevant, according to The Outlook for National Payment Schemes in a Global Economy
The FSA has fined BOS £4.2 million for legacy system failures which meant it held inaccurate mortgage records for 250,000 of its customers
Banque Internationale à Luxembourg is launching BILNet Wealth Services to support its IFA business
Banks top the list for customer loyalty, but supermarkets are not far behind
HSBC was hit by a denial of service attack on Thursday evening
Bank of America Merrill Lynch has enhanced its commercial card offering with the launch of Online PIN Check
Belfius is making use of Autonomy Scrittura to provide a single platform to consolidate its disparate confirmation systems
Two thirds of FS businesses were affected by fraud in the last 12 months
One in three Brits carry less than a fiver in cash, according to online payment solutions provider Skrill
BMO Financial Group (BMO) is implementing Milestone Group’s pControl platform
PlayMoolah, the top startup winner of the Singapore Innotribe Startup Challenge, is working with its first financial institution
Credit, debit or pre-paid card fraud has increased by 37 per cent since 2011
PNC Bank is making V.me from Visa available to more than 1.2 million of its Virtual Wallet customer accounts
Checkprint, a member of the TALL Group of Companies, has secured a contract from United Bank UK
FStech has added three new categories to its 2013 Awards
Fountain Credit Services, a new microfinance institution in Kenya, has launched on Temenos T24
Monitise has announced that user numbers quadrupled in the last year to 17 million
Banks are amongst the worst firms for customer service, according to a new whitepaper commissioned by Portal
A new Logomotion solution will allow banks to offer mobile contactless payment capability through customers’ existing handsets
Welcome Financial Services is implementing Target Group’s consumer loan administration and arrears management software
Cloud computing is now firmly in the minds of CIOs at British financial institutions, according to a new Fujitsu study
Orange Business Services - Trading Solutions’ financial extranet TCSnet is now connected to Bolsas y Mercados Españoles
RM Capital has upgraded its FX transaction capability with The Currency Cloud
Debit cards continue to gain market share from credit cards and the use of electronic and m-payments is showing exponential growth
Misys says it is seeing significant take-up of its BankFusion core banking solutions
New HP research shows the cost and frequency of cybercrime are continuing to rise
Cognizant and Monitise have formed a global alliance to help financial institutions capitalise on the mobile channel
SWIFT's Sanctions Testing service has been launched
ValidSoft has joined the Electronic Transactions Association Mobile Payments Committee
J.P. Morgan is the first global bank to sign up for MyStandards
iTB Holdings has launched iTBconnect, a platform that connects institutional investors to the electronic fixed income trading venues of their choice
ANZ has announced a major technology investment programme for its Australian business
360T is to integrate its multi-dealer, foreign exchange, money market and interest rate derivatives trading portal into Kyriba’s SaaS platform
SBI Japannext has launched a new NASDAQ OMX powered X-stream INET trading system
Speaker/panelist details have been announced for the 2012 FStech/Retail Systems Payments Technology Conference
Natterbox has signed a mobile call recording partnership with Orange Business Services - Trading Solutions
Monitise has entered into a mobile payments partnership with eMerit Solutions
South Africa’s First National Bank has entered into a deal with mPowa to offer its payment device in the country
Scandinavian pet insurer, Agria Djurförsäkring, is using Artificial Solutions’ technology to help reduce inbound calls and emails and provide 24/7 customer service
Almost half of consumers do not trust banks, accountancy firms and private equity firms to act in their best interests
The Payments Council has confirmed that there is just one year to go until the introduction of its new current account switching service
Many senior risk executives at leading banks believe that capturing and processing risk information across their enterprises is currently inadequate
