SocGen taps Amazon, Microsoft for cloud as banks target costs

The Paris-based bank is working with Microsoft and Amazon to become one of the first large European banks to adopt...

Vista to buy DH Corp to combine with financial tech firm Misys

Vista plans to combine DH Corp. with Misys Ltd., which it bought in 2012, according to a statement Monday. The...

Alphabet leads investment in U.K. payments startup Currencycloud

The funding will be used for international expansion in the U.S. and elsewhere, as the company attempts to take advantage...

Interview: RegTech drives growth at QualiTest

Ayal Zylberman started testing 25 years ago and has worked on every rung of the test ladder: from test analyst...

China seen sustaining record fintech investments, Accenture says

The country’s financial-services giants will probably ramp up investments in areas including artificial intelligence, blockchain, so-called big data and cyber-security...

Sixsentix recognised as one of Switzerland’s fastest-growing companies

Swiss software testing firm Sixsentix came third in a ranking of the 55 fastest growing Swiss companies, according to a...

Big-data disruption gets real for car insurers as O2 expands

Telefonica SA’s O2 unit — one of the first mobile operators in Britain to offer car insurance — expanded its...

Sandhata Technologies becomes a DevOps consultancy

Sandhata Technologies, a London-based technology consultancy that previously specialised in service virtualization implementations, has expanded its focus to include DevOps...

Amazon Web Services errors disrupt big part of the internet

Amazon Web Services reported “high error rates” with its S3 service, which it describes as a “simple storage solution” that...

Announcing the 2017 European Software and App Awards

QA Financial — the information source dedicated to quality assurance, testing and IT risk management for financial software — is...

Lloyds makes the jump from service virtualization to full DevOps

Lloyds Bank is closing a pioneering test service virtualization centre of excellence so it can focus on a full shift...

JP Morgan marshals an army of developers to automate high finance

The program, called COIN, for Contract Intelligence, does the mind-numbing job of interpreting commercial-loan agreements that, until the project went...