African central banks come together for data sharing TechSprint
Four Central Banks in Africa are looking at ways to share data to enable greater access to finance and promote COVID-19 recovery through collaboration with the RecovTech (Recovery Technology) TechSprint, commencing this week. Source: Fintech News
Police make multiple arrests in UK-wide crackdown on scam texts
Police have made eight arrests following a series of early morning operations targeting individuals suspected of sending out “smishing” texts. Source: Fintech News
BNP Paribas Fortis joins ING and KBC as ch-shareholder in loyalty platform Joyn
BNP Paribas Fortis will become a co-shareholder of Joyn and will acquire about one third of the shares, just like the other two big banks, KBC and ING. A small minority share remains in the hands of Gate 54. Source: Fintech News
Barclays recruits Lucy Demery for fintech investment role
Barclays Investment Bank has poached Lucy Demery from Standard Chartered to offer a 360 degree view of fintech investment and collaboration opportunities. Source: Fintech News
NatWest lets customers set daily bank transfer limits
NatWest is now allowing customers to set their own daily digital bank transfer limits – a move designed to reduce the damage done by APP scams. Source: Fintech News
Announcing Amazon Forecast Weather Index for South America
We’re excited to announce that Amazon Forecast Weather Index is now also available in the South America region. Weather Index can increase your forecasting accuracy, by automatically including the latest local weather information in your demand forecasts with one click and at no extra cost. Weather conditions influence consumer demand patterns, product merchandizing decisions, staffing […]
Amazon Forecast now supports generating predictions for 5X more items using 3X more historic data points
Today we are excited to announce that Amazon Forecast can now generate predictions for 5X more items using 3X more historic data points, increasing the number of items and the amount of historic information that your forecasting models can learn from and predict. Source: AWS
Amazon Elastic File System now supports longer resource identifiers
Starting today, Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) will support the use of longer resource identifiers (IDs) for newly created file systems and mount targets. You can opt into this change by using the API, Command Line Interface (CLI), Cloud Development Kit (CDK), and Amazon EFS Console. Source: AWS
Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports April 2021 Release Updates (RU)
Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports the April 2021 Release Updates (RU) for Oracle Database 12.2, 18c, and 19c. The April 2021 Patch Set Update (PSU) for Oracle Database 12.1 will be launched soon. Source: AWS
AWS X-Ray now supports VPC endpoints
AWS X-Ray now supports VPC endpoints. With this feature, you can communicate with X-Ray service from your Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) without exposing that traffic to the public internet. VPC endpoints are powered by AWS PrivateLink, an AWS technology that enables private communication between your VPC and AWS services, like X-Ray, on the private AWS […]