New research unveils that transitioning communications and processes from physical to digital while reducing costs and supporting changing working models top the list of FS priorities. Here, Gary Harrold, CEO of Swiss Post Solutions, UK & Ireland,...

Saket Modi, Co-Founder and CEO at Safe Security, describes how cybersecurity in the banking sector has now come into sharp focus. He says: “However, the fundamentals of how cybersecurity is approached are still unclear, which is why we still see businesses s...

Silicon Valley-based Mbanq, a Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) provider, has announced it has signed a strategic agreement with Temenos, the open cloud banking company, to launch a Credit-Union-as-a Service (CUaaS) offering and to accelerate BaaS adoption across...

Toronto-based Scotiabank is deepening its cloud-first commitment to its customers with Google Cloud. Scotiabank and Google Cloud have announced a strategic partnership to deepen the bank’s cloud-first commitment and accelerate its global data and analytics s...

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, 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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...