Tagged: digitalization

October 17, 2022 @ 11:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Gritti, the web3 social fitness app building healthier habits through engaged communities and applied game design, is pleased to announce “the closing of $1.7M in seed funding.” Lingfeng Innovation Fund led the investment round along with “thesis-driven” web3 natives Youbi Capital, Bixin Ventures, Orderly Network,… Read More

October 17, 2022 @ 2:21 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

BIAN, the “independent” not-for-profit association, recently announced its Open-Source Specification tool. Through its Open-Source offering, organizations now “have access to a set of message definitions made freely available for modification and redistribution.” The tool has been “developed to further BIAN’s CORELESS BANKING INITIATIVE, which aims… Read More

October 14, 2022 @ 7:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

State Street Corporation (NYSE: STT) announced that TradeNeXus, a GlobalLink digital platform for foreign exchange transactions and an integral part of State Street’s Digital Division, has partnered with Capitolis, the technology company “reimagining” capital markets, “to launch an automated post-trade solution to optimize portfolios.” This… Read More

October 14, 2022 @ 6:25 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Forter, the Trust Platform for digital commerce, announced the launch of Smart Claims, a new product offering designed “to help businesses manage chargebacks more effectively.” By connecting order and claims data across different payment systems into a single, consolidated view, Smart Claims “enables merchants to… Read More

October 14, 2022 @ 5:23 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Creators are driving a “revolution” in digital commerce and culture – producing content that entertains, engages, and “educates online communities in powerful new ways.” To serve this growing category of small business, Visa (NYSE: V) announced “the launch of the Visa Ready Creator Commerce program.”… Read More

October 13, 2022 @ 6:22 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The CosmWasm integration is the first of many other planned steps that ShareRing, a blockchain-enabled digital identity ecosystem, is taking in order “to move towards achieving the goal of providing frictionless access to goods and services.” This integration reportedly “results in smart contract functionality, greater… Read More

October 11, 2022 @ 11:58 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Clearstream has reached the next level of digitization of financial markets by “creating the digital instrument on D7, Deutsche Börse’s digital post-trade platform.” European issuers can now “leverage the new infrastructure to issue digital securities.” The first automated issuances were “performed by LBBW and Vontobel,… Read More

October 9, 2022 @ 9:09 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

ThriveDX, which claims to be the “premier” cybersecurity and digital skills provider, and Exclusive Networks, a globally “trusted” cybersecurity specialist for digital infrastructure,  announced the expansion of their partnership “to deliver end-to-end cybersecurity training and talent solutions to its global network of more than 25,000… Read More

October 9, 2022 @ 2:05 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Decades into the new millennium, finance teams are still behind with digital transformation. Research shows that finance executives are still struggling with process improvement, whether it be document handling, collecting signatures, reporting, or forecasting. Finance is a key function that supports the business with timely… Read More

October 7, 2022 @ 7:47 am By Omar Faridi  |  

PKO Bank Polski says the Metaverse initiative will be used as a laboratory “to broaden experience and to test relevant technological solutions.” According to Paweł Gruza, vice president of the management board of PKO Bank Polski managing the work of the management board, in the… Read More

October 5, 2022 @ 9:21 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Federal Reserve Board announced that it has finalized updates to the Board’s rule concerning debit card transactions. Pursuant to statute, the updates “specify that debit card issuers should enable at least two payment card networks to process all debit card transactions, including ‘card-not-present’ transactions,… Read More

October 3, 2022 @ 9:53 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

With Solana’s repeated run-ins with bots and outages, it affects not just traders but projects “building on top of Solana,” according to an update shared with CI. Zebec claims it is “becoming the largest business-facing protocol on Solana, with over 200 Solana projects utilizing Zebec.”… Read More

October 2, 2022 @ 10:55 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Maybank will fully migrate to a more secured authentication method via Secure2u by June 2023 for online activities or transactions “relating to account opening, fund transfers and payments as well as changes to personal information and account settings.” This is in line with Bank Negara’s… Read More

October 1, 2022 @ 11:49 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Li Jun, the Founder of Ontology, the project bringing trust, privacy, and security to Web3 through decentralized identity and data solutions, recently shared his views and insights with Crowdfund Insider. Li Jun talked about how Ontology has evolved over the years and achieved significant milestones…. Read More

September 28, 2022 @ 9:55 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

PNC Bank (NYSE: PNC) recently announced a strategic partnership with Blend (NYSE:BLND), a provider of cloud banking software, in order “to digitally optimize the company’s end-to-end online mortgage application process for an improved customer experience.” Peter McCarthy, PNC executive vice president and head of Mortgage, said:… Read More

September 25, 2022 @ 8:24 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

This month, Artory announced two major projects that deliver the benefits of the Algorand Blockchain to the traditional art market: the blockchain registration of Provenance Revealed: Galerie Steinitz in partnership with Christie’s and the launch of “a diversified and tokenized art fund which will secure… Read More

September 25, 2022 @ 2:35 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Account takeover fraud is an alarmingly common type of online crime, which can “affect businesses and individuals alike,” according to an update from SEON. This form of attack tends “to occur when a fraudster poses as an established, genuine client of a business, or as… Read More

September 20, 2022 @ 7:51 am By Omar Faridi  |  

OneSpan (NASDAQ: OSPN), the digital agreements security company, announced the general availability of its secure Virtual Room cloud service which “enables organizations to deliver live, high-touch assistance to their customers in a high-assurance virtual environment.” This next-generation customer engagement solution “gives organizations the ability to balance… Read More

September 18, 2022 @ 8:41 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

ENOC Group has accelerated its digitization strategy through a collaboration with Emirates NBD, a banking group in the MENA region (and Turkey), in order “to implement innovative payment solutions.” ENOC Group has “successfully implemented Emirates NBD’s Host to Host (H2H) services for payments and account… Read More

September 18, 2022 @ 4:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Robinsons Bank (RBank), owned by JG Summit Holdings, Inc., one of the Philippines’ largest and most diversified conglomerates, announced that it has chosen BPC as its solution partner to co-innovate, “to drive financial inclusion and digital adoption across the nation.” Using BPC’s SmartVista Platform, RBank… Read More