August 4, 2015 - Innovate Finance, the membership association for the UK's global FinTech sector, and The Open University, a world leader in part-time learning, have launched the world's first introductory course to financial technology.
August 5, 2015 - The importance of an EMV-compliant infrastructure to stem losses from card fraud has been demonstrated by new figures from The Nilson Report, which show that the US accounted for 48.2% or $7.86 billion of gross losses worldwide on plastic cards last year while generating only 21.4% or $6.187 trillion of total volume.
August 3, 2015 - The number of mobile banking users globally is forecast to double to 1.8bn over the next four years, encompassing over 25% of the world's population, according to research by KPMG and UBS.
August 3, 2015 - HSBC chairman Douglas Flint has called for a public policy debate on the ownership and use of consumer transactional data, as rapid technological change enables banks to assimilate and store vast amounts of personal financial information.
August 3, 2015 - Financial services firms will need to adopt more widespread use of emerging technologies to neutralise the threat of damaging security attacks. This is the advice from leading managed service provider, Advanced 365 (Advanced).
July 30, 2015 - The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the premier post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, today urged legislative and industry action to address three key obstacles that are hindering achievement of the G20 transparency goals set forth by policymakers in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis.
July 28, 2015 - Research into how claims are handled for unauthorised transactions (when a payment is made from a consumer's account without their consent) found that firms are making good efforts to deliver fair outcomes for consumers.
July 27, 2015 - Only 17% of UK organisations have incorporated electronic document storage into their disaster recovery (DR) plans, although 82% admit the need to do so is either 'critical' or 'very important' to maintain business continuity. These are the findings of a new survey by global business automation software provider, V1, carried out among senior IT and finance professionals from 92 organisations across the public, private and third sectors.
