Forterro is a London-based software company with around 11,000 SME manufacturing customers across Europe. Paul Smolinski, Chief Financial Officer of Forterro, tells us more about the company and how he is a people person who likes to be open with his staff...

Cloudera, the hybrid data company, has announced that Afterpay is using the Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) to run streaming analytics and advanced Machine Learning for real-time fraud detection. This helps Afterpay identify, access and reduce business risk...

Auriga, a global software provider for the omni-channel banking and payments industry, has announced it is taking a majority shareholding in F1 Solutions, a Warsaw-based, multi-vendor ATM, cash management and cash recycler software vendor....

The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group have approved additional financing of €5.01 million for the future Digital Technology Park in Diamniadio, Senegal. With this new loan, the bank is assuming 87% of the €73.62 million total project cos...

Radware, a leading provider of cybersecurity and application delivery solutions, has expanded its relationship with one of Africa’s leading banking groups. As part of the new agreement, the customer added Radware’s Cloud Web Application Firewall (WAF) Ser...

A new study from CMC Markets analysed monthly Google searches using Ahrefs for jobs within the financial industry to see which career is the most in demand.  It also extracted the number of UK-based listings for each finance role from the job sit...

Optasia, a leading FinTech services provider, has launched a microloan service via MTN Mobile Money (MoMo), with Ecobank in  Guinea and MTN.   The launch comes as part of MTN’s BankTech strategy in Guinea with over 4.25 million subscribers and over 800,...

iplicit, a software solution company, has announced its latest offering, iplicit Channel Programme, allowing partners to provide accounting services to growing businesses. iplicit has launched a reseller channel that will allow its partners to offer...

Macquarie Government, part of Macquarie Telecom Group, has announced it has renewed and extended its agreement with the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) to provide a range of data and cybersecurity services. It will see the ATO continue to leverage services,...

Pascal Holt, Director of Marketing, Iceotope, considers how Edge Computing and other growing technology innovations such as AI are changing the landscape for financial service organisations. Edge Computing, cloud and AI are changing the competitive...

Boost, a leading regional full-spectrum FinTech arm of Axiata, and Payments Network Malaysia (PayNet), a national retail payments network infrastructure, have announced that Boost merchants in Malaysia can now accept cross-border payments f...

Over nine in 10 (94%) financial services companies are confident in their cybersecurity posture. However, high confidence is being tempered by an increase in successful cyberattacks against the sector, suggesting that further cybersecurity improvements must...