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Columbia Bank hires new EVP and CIO

Columbia Bank has appointed Manesh Prabhu as its new Executive Vice President and CIO. The bank has more than 60 full-service branch networks spanning the state of New Jersey, and in his new role Prabhu is responsible for information systems and digital...

Barracuda appoints new Chief Financial Officer

Barracuda Networks, a trusted partner and leading provider of cloud-first security solutions, has announced Joe Billante as its new Chief Financial Officer. Billante brings more than 20 years of executive leadership and finance experience to...

RBC Wealth Management delivers on client expectations with Salesforce

RBC Wealth Management – a division of RBC Capital Markets – has implemented Salesforce to help drive business growth and reduce maintenance costs. Salesforce has announced that RBC Wealth Management – a division of RBC Capital Markets...

Finastra shows evolution of Open Banking and growing appetite for open finance

Finastra research reveals that Open Banking is now universally and unequivocally regarded as a key part of a bank’s landscape, with 99% of respondents considering it either a ‘must have’ or ‘important’ – up from 94%...

We ‘Go Phishing’ with Stuart Wells, CTO of Jumio

What would you describe as your most memorable achievement? I am fortunate that I have been able to achieve a number of notable high points in my working career. However, rather than one moment, my most memorable career achievement has to be the people...

44% of financial institutions believe IT teams are the main risk to cloud security

Netwrix has announced additional findings for the financial and banking sector from its global 2022 Cloud Data Security Report. Compared to other industries surveyed, financial institutions are much more concerned about users who have...

Zoho Finance Platform achieves 50% year-over-year growth

Zoho Finance Platform has achieved 50% year-over-year (YOY) revenue growth, supporting more than half a million businesses across more than 160 countries. Driving the growth is the global expansion of its cloud-based accounting application, Zoho Books,...

Data literacy to be the most in-demand skill for financial services sector by 2030

Employees working in the financial services and banking industry are at risk of being left behind if they do not develop data literacy skills, according to research from Qlik. The majority of C-suite executives (85%) working in the industry believe that...

JM Finn lowers operational costs and reduces carbon footprint by migrating legacy data centres to Nutanix Cloud Platform

Leading UK investment management company, JM Finn, achieved tangible benefits – accelerated performance; operational savings; and improved efficiency – after migrating its legacy data centres to Nutanix Cloud Platform. Jon Cosson, Head of IT and...

Businesses adjust spend and look for ways to save costs and control their finances 

James Gibson, Revolut Business General Manager, speaks to us about finance in business and how organisations can save costs.  Businesses today are faced with increasingly difficult decisions as they try – quite literally – to keep the...

Get To Knw: Dr. Naveen Singh, Founder and CEO, Inery  

Dr. Naveen Singh, Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Inery, speaks to us about the company, his leadership philosophy, the blockchain market and the importance of businesses adopting a decentralised database management solution.  Can you tell us...

Finance firms need to check their cybersecurity posture

Mark Lukie, Director of Solution Architects – APAC, Barracuda, speaks to us about the company’s latest financial report, which highlights why Australian businesses in the banking sector need to take their cybersecurity more seriously. Despite...