In partnership with mobile operators, financial institutions and merchants, Juvo aims to build financial profiles for the 68% of adults worldwide who have no formal credit history San Francisco, September 24th, 2019 – Juvo, a pioneer of financial identities for the underbanked, today unveils Financial Identity as a Service (FiDaaS). FiDaaS is a technology suite that builds financial identities by utilizing alternative data sources, along with incremental data generated from direct-to-consumer lending. These financial identities... Source: RealWire

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Launches new-look channel partner portal alongside its “Plant a Tree” campaign to encourage business and sustainable growthBRACKNELL, UK. 24th September 2019 – Panasonic TOUGHBOOK is encouraging European channel partners to grow their business by using its new-look partner portal and by helping to plant over 1000 trees in Europe and Tanzania in support of ForestNation’s campaign to help alleviate hunger, poverty and deforestation.To encourage its channel partners to use the portal for learning, marketing support... Source: RealWire

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Hamburg/Melbourne, September 24, 2019. The international technology group Körber strengthens its Business Area Logistics Systems by acquiring a majority stake in Cohesio Group Ltd. The Australian-based company is a leading integrator of voice-directed and autonomous mobile robotics (AMR) solutions for logistics. The acquisition was completed effective September 20, 2019.The Cohesio Group, headquartered in Melbourne, within just a few years established itself as one of the leading providers of voice-controlled and robotics software solutions for the... Source: RealWire

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Innovative law firm continues expansion; new hire of former Ropes & Gray managerLONDON – Advisory law firm Avonhurst today announced it will be joined by a new Head of Network Relationships, Dutch lawyer Carolina Daubeney-Bruil. This marks the fifth high level hire since the firm launched just over two months ago. Daubeney-Bruil has spent the last four years working as International Law Firm Relationship Manager at Ropes & Gray’s London office, primarily focusing on Europe.... Source: RealWire

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Luisa Delgado, Tony Bogod, Wolfgang Colberg and Hans-Kristian Hoejsgaard support boutique consultancy for Executive Search and Ownership AdvisoryGeneva, September 23rd 2019 AvS - International Trusted Advisors, a global executive search and ownership advisory firm headquartered in Frankfurt, Germany, will be supported by an advisory board of international top executives. Luisa Delgado, Tony Bogod, Wolfgang Colberg and Hans-Kristian Hoejsgaard will advise the circle of senior advisors gathered by founder Andreas v. Specht in the firm’s further... Source: RealWire

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New free-to-use sandbox environment aims to fuel experimentation in “back-end” paymentsSibos, London, 23rd September 2019 — Tribe Payments, a team of industry experts dedicated to delivering the future of payments, today announces its payments sandbox environment. Tribe’s sandbox is free-to-use and, in an industry first, provides access to APIs across both issuing and acquiring.Issuers and acquirers must be able to handle speed – payments must be processed on time and scale – systems need to... Source: RealWire

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Clareti technology ensures development of the bank’s new solution is on trackLondon – 20 September 2019 - Gresham Technologies plc, the leading software and services company that specialises in providing real-time solutions for data integrity and control, banking integration, payments and cash management provides further details of its recent strategic licencing agreement with ANZ for a new and innovative cash management solution.Gresham and ANZ have partnered to deliver a complex project which has involved collaboration... Source: RealWire

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$5 trillion threat of cyber-attacks and data theft encourage investment in cyber security solutions, talent and technologies [1]IT modernisation – plus cloud technology, IoT, virtualisation and robotics – driving deals to maintain competitiveness and reduce capital expenditureLondon, UK – 19 September 2019 - Hampleton Partners’ latest global IT & Business Services M&A Market Report reveals that the sector’s total disclosed deal value reached a whopping $97 billion in 1H 2019 – the highest total on... Source: RealWire

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[London, 19 September 2019] The 2019 UK London Managed Services & Hosting Summit on Wednesday 18 September revealed several indicators of an industry in transition – both internally and externally. Just as customers are getting harder to sell to because of competition and protracted buying processes, the industry itself is coming to terms with higher levels of specialisation, especially in security, and rampant consolidation through mergers and acquisitions.A highlight was managed services provider IT Lab... Source: RealWire

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[London, 19 September 2019] Winners of the second annual Managed Services Awards were announced at a dinner in London on Wednesday following the UK Managed Services and Hosting Summit 2019. With categories ranging from projects to solutions, SMB to public sector, a busy awards dinner saw seventeen awards given to leading MSPs, vendors and channels.Chair of the judges, IT Europa Editor John Garratt says the number and quality of the entries increases each year and... Source: RealWire

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