Friday 21st February, 2014

I.R.I.S., member of the Canon Group has announced its partnership with Scytl Secure Electronic Voting S.A.. With the successful delivery of  election projects in Ecuador and Honduras, the two companies continue planning further collaboration during 2014.

Scytl is the leading provider of election management and online voting solutions that ensure transparent, secure, accessible and auditable elections. I.R.I.S. specialises in automated document classification and data extraction – to make relevant information available for following processes. By partnering with I.R.I.S., Scytl can further automate election processes to ensure the results are quickly available.

Thursday 20th February, 2013

The National Crime Agency (NCA) has issued a fraud alert to the construction industry over an increasing number of  “invoice mandate” frauds during 2013. The NCA, working with the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau, has said that there were 34 reports of invoice mandate fraud from the construction industry between 1 January and the end of October last year.

Wednesday 19th February, 2014

USForex and CanadianForex, part of OzForex Group, has partnered with global foreign exchange specialist, Travelex.

USForex’s and CanadianForex’s technology platforms enable account-to-account foreign exchange transfers at a discount to the rates and fees of banks. Travelex’s customers can now easily and efficiently transfer money at real time rates from their bank accounts, in any of more than 50 currencies, to friends and family worldwide.

Tuesday 18th February, 2014

Over the last couple of months, numerous central banks and national regulators in the US have issued warnings against the use of bitcoin and other digital currencies.

Although the US has not restricted bitcoin yet, there are a number of barriers to the adoption of digital currencies in the country. These are made up of FinCEN rules, regulatory ambiguity and lack of a coherent policy at federal level.

Monday 17th February, 2014

Taulia has announced that it has tripled its revenue growth over 2013, which the company says is largely due to their 100% customer renewal rate, as well as the addition of 22 new customers including seven new Global 2000 customers signed in Q4.