Displaying items by tag: Financial services

ONLINE EVENT: Financial services organisations are exposed to more sources of cyber threats than ever before. Improving the ability to manage cyber risks will be an extremely high priority for them over the next couple of years.

Financial services organisations are exposed to more sources of cyber threats than ever before. Improving the ability to manage cyber risks will be an extremely high priority for them over the next couple of years.

FS-ISAC, the global cyber intelligence sharing community solely focused on financial services, says that large scale threats resulted in record-breaking peaks of intelligence sharing by financial firms across all regions from August 2020 to August 2021, including the Asia Pacific region, North America; Latin America; Europe, UK, Middle East and Africa.

COMPANY NEWS: Snowflake, the data cloud company, today announced the Financial Services Data Cloud, which unites Snowflake’s industry-tailored platform governance capabilities, Snowflake- and partner-delivered solutions, and industry-critical datasets, to help financial services organisations revolutionise how they use data to drive business growth and deliver better customer experiences.

Data cloud company Snowflake has successfully completed an assessment by KPMG on the 14 Key Cloud Controls that are part of the EDM Council's Cloud Data Management Capabilities (CDMC) framework.

Industry superannuation fund HESTA is collaborating with social enterprise Girls of Impact in a move aimed at encouraging more young women to consider a career in financial services.

GUEST OPINION by Helen Langton, CEO APAC and Middle East, International Compliance Association:  What challenges and opportunities does artificial intelligence (AI) present and how can risk and compliance practitioners best respond to these?

eftpos has announced seasoned digital executive Mark Britt has joined the eftpos team as CEO of Beem It to take it next-level with plans for a new national rewards platform for Australian consumers, while also providing evidence a Parliamentary inquiry today into Mobile payment and digital wallet financial services.

GUEST OPINION by Daniel Harding, MaxContact’s Director – Australia Operations: Webchat, SMS and email can enable you to deliver better customer service but only if you invest time and resources to implement them smartly.

COMPANY NEWS: Hazelcast, the real-time intelligent applications platform, announces the new Hazelcast Platform, enterprise software capable of serving as a single platform for transactional, operational and analytical workloads. The Hazelcast Platform combines the capabilities of a real-time stream processing engine with in-memory computing to deliver a simplified architecture that is highly performant, scalable and reliable.

Australia's managers consistently overrate both their own — and their organisation's — efficacy at engaging and recognising the value of employees, according to a new study commissioned by Achievers, the progressive choice for employee voice and recognition solutions that accelerate a culture of performance.

Research commissioned by Appian shows automation is helping more than half of financial services organisations to build apps quicker than competitors.

Research commissioned by Appian shows automation is helping more than half of financial services organisations to build apps quicker than competitors.

Australian mainframe users face a lengthy journey to the cloud, according to Accenture, but it seems that just dipping a toe into the water can be counterproductive.

GUEST OPINION by George Tsoukas, Gigamon ANZ: While the financial services industry is no stranger to unexpected events and their repercussions, the current global upheaval is creating unprecedented uncertainty. Faced with this, how should financial services organisations respond?

Australian banking group Westpac has announced that peer-to-peer lending platform SocietyOne is the second partner to join its new digital banking-as-a-service platform.

Australian biggest customer-owned bank, Heritage Bank, has teamed up with professional services organisation Ernst & Young Australia (EY) to deploy a new Open Banking solution.

Australian machine learning company Trellis Data has successfully completed a funding round for growth capital, raising $3 million with support from lead investor, CSIRO’s Main Sequence Ventures.

The competition watchdog, the ACCC, will not oppose financial services company IOOF’s acquisition of the National Australia Bank owned MLC Wealth Management.

COMPANY NEWS: Financial services specialist Balmain has boosted its IT systems speed, increased reliability to 99.9 percent, added new services and reduced costs – all after implementing virtual load balancer technology from Kemp.