04/22/2020
UAE’s Virtuzone launches free online marketplace for SMEs
The platform will allow businesses to offer time sensitive deals to customers
Innovation & Startups
04/22/2020
UAE’s rental app aims to take landlords entirely online
A new digital dashboard from Urban aims to provide UAE landlords with full oversight into their properties
04/22/2020
Dunstan Thomas acquires investment platform as it expands into wealth management
Chris Read, group chief executive at Dunstan Thomas, explains: “Platform Action brings a terrific combination of top flight strategic IT expertise as well as broad delivery capability and very deep platform domain expertise.
04/22/2020
Facebook Seals Biggest Deal Since WhatsApp With India’s Ambani
Separately, Facebook said the deal would bring together JioMart, an ecommerce venture of Mukesh Ambani and its WhatsApp platform to enable people to connect with businesses.
04/22/2020
IBM and Fenergo join forces to fight financial crime
As a result, IBM will offer companies a complete AI application suite that is focused on risk and compliance and helps clients fend off financial criminals and meet their intensifying regulatory requirements for disclosure.
04/21/2020
Avaloq named a Leader in Everest Group’s 2020 Wealth Management PEAK Matrix Assessment
Companies were analysed based on two broad themes: their market impact and their vision and capability.
04/21/2020
The new CIO: Business-savvy technologist
Shifting focus to business innovation may not be easy for many tech leaders.
04/21/2020
How by making our staff’s wellbeing a priority we’re keeping our customers No. 1.
We knew that in order to keep delivering for our customers we had an immediate duty to look after our staff’s mental wellbeing in these unprecedented times.
04/21/2020
World FinTech Report 2020
FinTech collaboration is even-more essential now for banks to achieve customer-centricity
04/21/2020
Alternative financing market to hit $14.3bn this year
It includes crowdinvesting models, which focus mainly on start-ups exchanging investment for company shares, and crowdfunding solutions, from reward and donation-based models to equity crowdfunding.
04/21/2020
Maitland’s Investran move aligns to our global growth strategy
This ongoing commitment ensures that the system and our reporting capabilities are aligned with the ever-changing regulatory environment and the needs and expectations of our clients.
04/20/2020
Stonehage Fleming’s direct investment clients invest in USD10m BibliU Series A funding round
Stonehage Fleming Advisory’s clients have invested alongside leading UK impact foundation Nesta Impact Ventures, who led the round, Guinness Asset Management, and existing investor Oxford Sciences Innovation.
04/20/2020
CMC Technology & Solution Joins Comeet Alliance
Given the fact that global pandemic COVID-19 has now been more and more complicated and the demand for online working tools is growing sharply, especially when the foreign software is still being questioned by users.
04/20/2020
Cambria Investment Management Hires SS&C to Service ETF Lineup
SS&C ALPS has been servicing the ETF industry since 1995 with a unique full-service offering that includes fund accounting, legal administration, distribution, and liquidity risk management.
04/19/2020
Merged SHUAA Capital entity holds first general meeting virtually
General Meeting approves the Board of Directors' report in respect of the activity and financial position of the Company for the financial year ending 31 December 2019
04/17/2020
How adoption of technology can give much-needed boost to insurance
Trade tensions, geopolitical issues and lack of agreement on how to tackle climate change all contribute to a general sense of unease about the future, more so than has been reported in the survey since 2009.
04/17/2020
Innovation agency Nesta backs UK edtech start-up BibliU
Demand for online learning is also expected to grow as more adults work from home, rather than offices.
04/17/2020
Bank software firm DCI acquires Vetter digital onboarding technology
This acquisition, the most recent for DCI, is part of a major strategic growth initiative for the company in the digital bank technology industry.
04/16/2020
Time ripe for robos in wealth management
It can help mitigate scale of disruptions and can also help in a turnaround
04/16/2020
Using RPA to ease Japan’s labour shortage
The company wants to help small- and medium-sized companies improve their work efficiency by automating simple office tasks that are now being done manually.