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Verto transforms cross-border B2B payments with ForexPeople partnership

Verto, a leading B2B cross-border payments and Foreign Exchange (FX) enabler, has partnered with ForexPeople to bring secure, fast and seamless global payments to South African businesses buying, selling, or operating globally. With more than US$1.5 billion...

Prudential and Google Cloud partner for accessible healthcare and financial security

Leading insurance groups, Prudential and Google Cloud have announced a strategic partnership to enhance health and financial inclusion for communities across Asia and Africa. Under this alliance, Prudential will leverage Google Cloud’s data analytics...

Deutsche Bank extends partnership with Kyndryl to support the bank’s ongoing transformation

Deutsche Bank and Kyndryl, one of the world’s largest IT infrastructure services providers, has announced a new agreement under which the bank will extend one of the largest and longest-running vendor contracts in the financial industry. Kyndryl will continue t...

Second edition of FinTech Surge to host payment innovators Insurtech

FinTech Surge 2022, the MENA region’s leading finance and innovation event, is set to return to Dubai World Trade Centre from October 10-13 2022, where it will spark new disruption in the Middle East and North Africa’s burgeoning fintech sector. An integral par...

Digital-first bank, Emirates NBD marks presence at the world’s largest tech show, GITEX Global 2022

Emirates NBD, a leading banking group in the MENAT (Middle East, North Africa and Turkey) region has announced its presence at GITEX Global (GITEX), the region’s largest technology event being held at Dubai World Trade Centre from 10-14 October.  The pa...

Finance and IT leaders reveal top barriers to digital finance transformation 

Workday has published the results of its latest survey, which examines the state of Digital Transformation in finance, how these efforts are impacted by finance and IT and how CFO-CIO alignment is central to transformation success.   The survey of...

57% of organisations take weeks for infrastructure access to be approved 

strongDM, the company behind a People-First Access Platform, has released the results of its latest survey, the 2022 Access-Productivity Gap Report, which revealed that almost two-thirds of organisations have their productivity impacted on a daily or weekly b...

Habito reveals an increase in mortgage fraud detection with Resistant AI solution

Resistant AI, an AI and Machine Learning financial crime prevention specialist, has announced that Habito, an online mortgage broker and lender, has reported a 30% increase in mortgage fraud detection following the implementation of its Document Forensics...

Industry experts predict Brazil will be a global leader in Open Banking

An Open Banking Excellence Campfire shone a light on payment initiation in Brazil and addressed the topic of the country’s Open Banking ecosystem. Guests included representatives of Mastercard, Brazil’s Central Bank and Itaú Unibanco. Brazil’s Open Banking and fi...

Gartner highlights seven disruptions CIOs might not see coming

CIOs must take time to consider ‘what if’ scenarios to avoid being blindsided by social, behavioural and technological disruptions, according to Gartner. Speaking at Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo in Australia, David Yockelson, VP analyst at Gartner, said many dis...

How do we govern the ungovernable in the metaverse?

The emergence of the metaverse presents a wild west for regulation. Nick Aronson, VP, Capital Markets, APAC, FIS, discusses the challenges and methods to tackle them as the metaverse is built. The concept of the metaverse represents a multitude of...

Payment Fraud Intelligence expands the Recorded Future Intelligence Cloud

Recorded Future, the intelligence company, has announced the expansion of its Intelligence Cloud with Payment Fraud Intelligence, a single source of truth for identifying, mitigating and preventing payment fraud. Payment Fraud Intelligence enables those...