AI & Big Data Expo North America 2018 is a leading industry trade show focused on providing attendees the opportunity to explore and discover the practical and successful implementation of AI & Big Data to drive businesses forward in 2018 and beyond. The expo will be co-hosted alongside the IoT Tech Expo, the largest global gathering for the Internet of Things sector, the Blockchain Expo and the Cyber Security & Cloud Expo. As a whole, the event will attract in excess of 13,000 attendees for two days of insightful content covering the whole ecosystem surrounding AI, Big Data, IoT, Blockchain, Cyber Security & Cloud.
ReliaQuest, the leader in Security Model Management, today announced it ranked 214th on Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500™, a ranking of the 500 fastest growing technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences and energy tech companies in North America. ReliaQuest grew 451 percent during this period.
ReliaQuest’s Chief Executive Officer, Brian Murphy, credits a strong culture and hardworking employees with the company’s 451 percent revenue growth.
“It’s amazing to see our teams deliver outcomes for our customers and our business that are both rewarding and help them grow in their careers,” said ReliaQuest CEO Brian Murphy. “I couldn’t be prouder of the work the ReliaQuest team has done to build and maintain such a high-performance culture.”
Invest Cloud, which supports more than USD1.7 trillion of assets for managers with under USD50 billion, in addition to several of the largest financial institutions, has recently seen its UK business expanding, not least with the June purchase of rplan for USD20 million.
Andy Creak (pictured), EVP Business Development, at InvestCloud, explains that the company has eight offices around the world, including London, and is building up its capacity in the UK, with the office growing from 10s of people to 60 in the last 12 months.
“Through apps, we provide the ability for any wealth adviser to get this automated investment platform for their clients,” Creak says. “The periodic table showing the library of apps allows you to create the proposition you want.”
Centro has signed on 100 agencies for self-serve software contracts in the first three quarters of 2018. The growth has promoted the company to budget between 140 and 150 employees to the payroll in 2019.
Shawn Riegsecker, Centro CEO, said the company’s growth is partially attributable to its platform Basis, which took more than five years to build. It automates direct-to-vendor media buying, programmatic advertising, and universal campaign reporting that includes search and social, business intelligence reporting, and media operations.
Tell us about your role and journey into technology. How did you start NewsCred?
I spend most of my time managing the strategic growth of the company and learning from our customers about how our platform can help marketing organizations work better together to increase their performance. In college, I was a Computer Science major and afterwards, I went into banking at Merrill Lynch. The day I got married, I decided to quit and start NewsCred. It has evolved several times before becoming a Content Marketing Platform provider. And we are continuing to iterate by building an Integrated Marketing Edition of the NewsCred CMP that helps entire marketing teams work together to deliver a content experience across all touchpoints that define and shapes the customer journey of a brand.
GigaSpaces, the provider of InsightEdge, a leading in-memory real-time analytics platform announced today together with two of its customers that they have been shortlisted for three Banking Technology Awards; Best Use of IT in Treasury and Capital Markets for Daiwa Capital Markets and Société Générale, Top Digital Innovation for Daiwa Capital Markets and Best Use of Data for Société Générale. Now in their 19th year, the Banking Technology Awards recognize excellence and innovation in the use of IT in financial services worldwide.
The last month has been a particularly choppy one for markets, with the CBOE Volatility Index (VIX) spiking more than 80% during October. It’s apparent that the combination of rising interest rates, mounting trade tensions and early-stage recession fears are setting in. But what’s more unsettling is how unprepared the average client is to navigate the next market downturn.
Harry Markowitz’s modern portfolio theory, which stems from his groundbreaking research in 1952’s Portfolio Selection, has led generations to believe that a well-diversified portfolio includes a 60% allocation to stocks and a 40% allocation to bonds. This cross-section of believers includes the 10,000 baby boomer investors who turn 65 each day and need their investments to generate stable income upon retirement.
Military service members and veterans are increasingly seeking out military discounts when they shop online and are more likely to become long-term customers of brands that offer them, respondent to a newly released survey conducted by ID.me, the next generation identity platform, concluded.
Military discounts shape the online shopping habits of veterans and active duty service members, who go out of their way to find brands that acknowledge and reward service in the armed forces, according to the ID.me survey, that polled 6,377 military veterans and 2,013 active service members.
NewsCred, the world’s leading enterprise content marketing platform (CMP) provider, today announced that it will exhibit at SiriusDecisions Technology Exchange, held November 7-9 in New Orleans.
The NewsCred team of marketing and technology experts will be available in Booth #406. They will share integrated marketing best practices and demonstrate the NewsCred CMP: Integrated Marketing Edition in action, showing how the holistic solution that combines cross-functional planning and end-to-end content execution breaks down silos to build a collaborative, customer-centric marketing organization that delivers measurable results.
Built on a Nobel Prize-winning framework, Riskalyze quantifies the semantics of the financial advice industry, replacing confusing and subjective terms like “moderately conservative” and “moderately aggressive” with the Risk Number, a number between 1 and 99 that pinpoints a client’s exact comfort zone for downside risk and potential upside gain. Advisors then build an investment portfolio to match the client’s Risk Number and chart a clearly defined path to the client’s goals.
Riskalyze was twice named one of the world’s 10 most innovative companies in finance by Fast Company Magazine and has appeared twice on the Forbes FinTech50 list.
