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Company update/Oracle

Switzerland kickstarts new accelerator programme

Kickstart Accelerator, one of Europe’s largest multi-corporate, zero-equity technology accelerators and an initiative of digitalswitzerland, has today announced that applications are open to international startups for its second programme, predominantly based out of ewz-Unterwerk Selnau, the old transformer station in centre of Zurich.

01 February 2017

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Fintech solving fundamental problem

Vikas Raj, Managing Director, Venture Lab, Accion, discusses innovations in emerging markets around the use of alternative and new data for credit scoring, and explores the role of fintechs in solving the ‘information asymmetry’ problem that leaves some 3 billion individuals and small businesses around the world without the financial services they need, by giving incumbent banks the data and infrastructure to serve these segments better.

21 November 2016

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Critical time for corporate onboarding

Tom Durkin, Managing Director, Digital Channels, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, discusses the pitfalls of the corporate bank onboarding process for both customers and banks, and how technology has the potential to improve the process.

05 October 2016

Company update/Oracle

TAS Group awarded cloud standard status by Oracle PartnerNetwork

TAS Group, the Italian Finance Industry collaborator in Payments, Securities and ERP projects and a Gold level member of Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN), today announced it has achieved the Cloud Standard designation within the OPN Cloud program.

27 July 2016

Company update/Oracle

Oracle launches cloud-based debt collection suite

Financial institutions looking to recoup delinquent accounts while maintaining a positive association with their brands have a powerful new tool: Oracle Banking Collections.

28 June 2016

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Co-op Money NZ chooses Oracle Flexcube

Co-op Money NZ, the industry voice representing co-operatively owned credit unions and mutual building societies in New Zealand, has chosen Oracle FLEXCUBE as its core banking system.

20 January 2016

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Filling the gaps in financial crime compliance

Matthew Long, Financial Crime and GRC Management Global Solution Lead, Oracle and Michael Davison, Industry Principal, Financial Services, Atos, discuss the growing challenge for banks of meeting their financial crime and compliance obligations – such as the requirements of the 4th AML Directive - and explore the industry’s response, including efforts to achieve a holistic view of risks by centralising investigation management operations, the focus on better utilising big data and analytics for compliance, and the increasing relevance of hosted solutions to ensure players of all sizes and complexity can comply in a cost efficient way.

16 December 2015

Company update/Oracle

MyECheck unveils mobile payments system

MyECheck, Inc. (OTC PINK: MYEC), announced today that their card free, ultra-secure, low flat fee mobile payments system is now available to the public.

28 August 2015

Company update/Oracle

DigiSeq gains approval from MasterCard for wearable personalisation

DigiSEq has developed the technology to remotely personalise wearable devices for contactless payments.

27 July 2015

Company update/Oracle

Azul Systems Joins Eclipse Foundation

Azul Systems, a specialist in Java runtime solutions, has joined the open source Eclipse Foundation. The firm sees it as a way to encourage open mobile and embedded technologies that will help drive the adoption of the Internet of Things (IoT).

12 May 2015

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The digital bank of the future

Oracle provides an insight into the new approach required for banking in a digital age.

18 February 2015

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Billing and revenue management trends

Hubert JP Jolly, Head of Channel & Enterprise Services, Citi Treasury and Trade Solutions talks about the demand for real-time payments and centralised oversight with revenue and billing management.

14 October 2014

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The drive to digital banking

Brett King, CEO and Founder of Moven, explains the personnel shift required to drive a bank's digital strategy and the importance of mobile.

26 March 2014

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The true view of risk

Subin Paul, solutions architect at Oracle, examines why many banks still struggle to find a true, enterprise-wide view of risk.

27 February 2014

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Mobile payments: Sibos's holy grail?

Tushar Chitra, senior director, product marketing at Flexcube, Oracle, discusses where mobile technology is headed, the retail ecosystem and mobile payments. Originally published on Finextra.com on:

07 October 2013

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The challenges of global transaction banks

Saket Pabby, VP, Oracle revenue management and billing, discusses the challenges facing global transaction banks and how analytics is shaping transaction banking.

04 October 2013

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Brown Brothers Harriman empowers mobile

US investment bank Brown Brothers Harriman expects to have abandoned traditional desktop computing within two years as employees move to mobile working, says CIO and partner Christopher Remondi.

02 October 2013