Tag: Featured

November 13, 2018

Huawei’s Enrique Marron Caballero, finance solution director, Western Europe (ex-Santander), admits that bank executives “won’t be fired if a traditional US provider fails [on a project]”. Huawei has typically started with “foundation platforms” such as storage and wifi for banks, […]

November 13, 2018

For investors, it may be a case of nowhere to run, nowhere to hide. So says CNBC’s “Mad Money” host Jim Cramer, who warned Monday of a very “serious correction” in a day that saw the Dow skid 600 points […]

November 12, 2018

Greg Sohnrey came home from Iraq in 2010 so badly injured the Veterans Administration said the then-30-year-old would never work again. But for Sohnrey, that experience paled next to losing a baby daughter, then watching two young sons go under […]

November 12, 2018

What the heck happened to oil prices? But more significantly, what does it mean for the broader stock market and the global economy? That is what has some Wall Street investors scratching their noggins, as crude futures and U.S. stocks […]

November 7, 2018

Set up by a gaggle of former Google engineers, Thought Machine has spent the last few years trying to solve one of the biggest problems in banking: how to replace the decades old legacy core systems which hamper the delivery […]

November 6, 2018

The platform, which is backed by “King of the Disruptors”, Brett King, has been doing pretty well. It was founded in 2014, but has been trading since 2017. Since that time it has transacted more than €34 million to date […]

November 6, 2018

This latest addition comes amid growing institutional investor appetite for emerging markets bonds as they seek to diversify their portfolios and access growth opportunities in fixed income markets outside of North America and Europe. Liquidnet’s Member firms can now trade […]

November 5, 2018

The new project builds on the “strategic relationship” by the two firms embarked on in 2017. It started with the integration of Billtrust’s Virtual Card Capture and Visa’s Straight Through Processing solution. “Billtrust’s BPN will further the multipronged strategy Visa […]

November 5, 2018

Bitcoin opens Monday where it has kicked off the majority of recent sessions, trading mostly unchanged. Early Monday a single bitcoin BTCUSD, -0.10% was fetching $6,423.21, down 0.1% since 5 p.m. Eastern Time on Sunday on the Kraken crypto exchange. […]

October 31, 2018

Employment costs rose more than expected in the third quarter in a sign that more inflation could be brewing in the U.S. economy. The Labor Department’s employment cost index rose 0.8 percent for the period, ahead of the estimate of […]