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Preliminary Results for the year ended 31 December 2014
February 25th, 2015
Focused marketing strategy and ongoing improvement in the strength of the Plus500 brand attracted new customers – active customers exceeded 100,000 for the first time Effective user experience across all platforms including smartphones and tablets Intuitive technology platform enabled ...
Visa Europe: Payment tokenisation service launched
February 24th, 2015
Service protects customer data to enable secure and convenient payments across a variety of technologies Visa Europe today announces its plan to launch a tokenisation service customized for the needs of the European market. Tokenisation technology will be at ...
Banks to allow account access using fingerprint tech
February 18th, 2015
Two banks are allowing their customers to access accounts on their smartphones using fingerprint recognition technology, in a UK industry first. RBS and NatWest customers must activate the feature with their security information, but would only need to use ...
SEC probes Blackberry options trading ahead of Reuters report about Samsung talks
February 6th, 2015
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating a January 14 spike in trading in BlackBerry Ltd options that took place hours before Reuters reported that Samsung Electronics Co was in talks to buy the Canadian smartphone maker, according ...
Half of the world’s banks set to fall by the digital wayside – BBVA
February 5th, 2015
Up to half of the world’s banks will disappear through the cracks opened up by digital disruption of the industry, forecasts BBVA chairman and CEO Francisco Gonzalez. Speaking to the press as the bank reported a 25% uplift in ...
Google Is Developing Its Own Uber Competitor
February 3rd, 2015
The two companies are going to war over self-driving taxis. Uber faces an ever-growing cast of adversaries that includes dubious regulators, litigious drivers, hostile members of the press, and somewell-funded rivals. But the most significant threat to the app-based transportation company may be ...
TD Ameritrade Institutional introduces new Platform
January 30th, 2015
TD Ameritrade issued a press release informing for the introduce of Veo One, the Next Generation Advisor Technology Platform. Building on the successful foundation of Veo Open AccessSM and its integration with 85 technology firms, TD Ameritrade Institutional1 is ...
Global Markets Exchange Group takes stake in Avenir Technology
January 28th, 2015
GMEX issued a press release announcing that: Today, GMEX has taken a strategic stake, through its GMEX Technologies Limited (GMEX TECH) subsidiary, in the UK based post-trade software firm Avenir Technology Limited (Avenir). Avenir has developed a suite of ...
Microsoft sales soar for all its non-Windows products
January 27th, 2015
Microsoft sales are growing for just about every product it makes … except for Windows. A couple years ago, that would have caused a panic — Windows has been Microsoft’s cash cow since 1985. In 2015, Microsoft (MSFT, Tech30) isn’t sweating it too ...
Apple Sues Ericsson Over Patents Related to LTE Connectivity
January 14th, 2015
Apple Inc. sued Ericsson , alleging the patents being asserted by the Swedish networking giant aren’t “essential” to high-speed wireless technology the iPhone maker uses in its mobile devices. In a complaint filed in U.S. District Court for Northern ...
