Top Stories

Emirates NBD’s Liv elevates digital banking experiences with Azure Cloud Services

Liv, the lifestyle digital-only bank by Emirates NBD, a banking group in the Middle East, North Africa and Turkey (MENAT) region, has enhanced its customer focused offering by partnering with Microsoft to elevate the digital customer experience. “Microsoft A...

Al Maryah Community Bank completes design of its digital banking platform

Al Maryah Community Bank, UAE’s first fully integrated digital bank, has announced the completion of the pragmatic architectural design of its technology platform.This is infused with an Artificial Intelligence capability that will lead to the complete t...

BFS goes live on Temenos SaaS to deliver finance faster

Temenos, the banking software company, has announced that Barko Financial Services (BFS), a South Africa-based microfinance institution, has gone live on Temenos Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) to make it faster and easier for South Africans to access finance...

UAE banking sector invests heavily in fight against cyberattacks

Since the pandemic, the number of cyberattacks in the UAE and the region has seen a substantial increase, as organisations have been forced to an immediate remote working scenario. As part of efforts targeting the cyber security of the financial sector, the...

Blockchain is propelling finance, trade and government initiatives in Africa

Blockchain is a type of distributed ledger for maintaining a permanent and tamper-proof record of transactional data. A Blockchain functions as a decentralised database that is managed by computers belonging to a peer-to-peer (P2P) network. Industry experts...

Huawei: 5G will unleash power of data-driven intelligent finance

Business and technology leaders from across the APAC region have gathered to discuss how 5G and the revolution in data storage will define the future of the financial industry. Global tech giant Huawei has held its Asia Pacific Financial Industry Storage...

Why IT security teams and employees need to work together to secure finance organizations

Financial institutions stand the best chance of achieving cyber hygiene if they make it their mission to teach their workforce about important cybersecurity behaviors. David Sajoto, Vice President of Sales for Asia Pacific and Japan, ExtraHop, explains the...

Banking on Europe as the epitome of cybersecurity and privacy

As one of the largest financial institutions in the world, Standard Chartered Bank is under no illusion that it can’t function without complete protection of its IT infrastructure. Yuval Illuz, Group CISO, COO, Trust, Data and Automation, Operations, S...

Call for stricter regulations to reduce IT outages in banking sector, report finds

A UK government committee has warned that regulators must act to reduce an increased amount of IT failures in the financial services sector. The number of incidents has been deemed ‘unacceptable’ by the Treasury Committee. With online banking so...