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Company announcement/cloud

Intellect Design Arena unveils iTurmeric FinCloud

Intellect Design Arena Ltd., a global leader and the world’s first full spectrum banking and insurance products company, introduced iTurmeric FinCloud – its future-ready, cloudready, API-first, microservices-based platform – available today on IBM public cloud, the industry’s most secure and open public cloud for business.

15 May 2020

News/cloud

Canadian credit unions pick IBM for payments modernisation

A group of more than 75 Canadian credit unions have inked an eight-year, multi-million dollar deal with IBM for a digital payments overhaul.

12 May 2020

News/crypto

Is it time to believe the blockchain hype?

Finextra Research has collaborated with Deloitte's Richard Walker, HSBC's Mark Williamson and Ciaron Roddy and BBVA's Francisco Maroto amongst others and to produce a detailed report on the future of blockchain technology in financial services: Where is the industry now? Where could it go? How do we get there?

12 May 2020

News/identity

Digital identity consortium forms to develop trust ecosystem

A broad coalition of non-profits and private companies - including Mastercard, R3 and IBM - have gathered under the umbrella of the Linux Foundation to foster a standard for decentralised digital identity exchange over the Internet.

05 May 2020

Company announcement/cloud

Tech Mahindra joins IBM public cloud ecosystem

Tech Mahindra Ltd. a leading provider of digital transformation, consulting and business reengineering services and solutions, is collaborating with IBM (NYSE: IBM) to help businesses transform their operations and accelerate their hybrid cloud strategies.

23 April 2020

Company announcement/crime

IBM and Fenergo join forces to fight financial crime

Fenergo, the leading provider of digital transformation, customer journey and client lifecycle management (CLM) solutions for financial institutions, and IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced the signing of an original equipment manufacturing (OEM) agreement that will allow the companies to collaborate on solutions that can help clients address the multitude of financial risks they face.

21 April 2020

News/covid-19

TSB adds Covid-19 Smart Agent to site

TSB has added a 'Smart Agent' function to its site, enabling customers to ask a chatbot or live agent about measures the UK bank is taking during the Covid-19 pandemic.

07 April 2020

News/people

IBM hires BoA CTO Boville to lead cloud biz

IBM has hired former Bank of America chief technology officer Howard Boville as head of its cloud business.

07 April 2020

Company announcement

R3 appoints former IBM and AWS exec to head up partner programme

R3, the enterprise blockchain software firm, has appointed former IBM and Amazon Web Services executive, Dorothy Copeland, as Global Head of Partner Ecosystem & Alliances.

11 March 2020

News

Standard Chartered joins TradeLens

Standard Chartered has become the first financial institution to join the TradeLens blockchain-enabled container logisitics platform developed by IBM and Maersk.

11 March 2020

News/sustainable

IBM blockchain partner: Rival companies must join forces for common sustainable goals

Using blockchain and other technologies to work towards sustainable goals requires companies to break the current way of thinking in business, according to Anthony Day, blockchain partner at IBM.

06 March 2020

Company announcement/crypto

Onchain Custodian brings wallet oput of cold storage with IBM hosting deal

Onchain Custodian (ONC), the Sequoia-backed digital assets custody service provider headquartered in Singapore, has just released the next version of its SAFE platform, integrating cryptography services on an infrastructure securely hosted by IBM.

02 March 2020