Farhad Irani, a native of India, brings 25 Years of Financial Services Experience to One of PayPal’s Fastest Growing Regions
India – April 7, 2009 – PayPal, an eBay company, today announced that it has hired Farhad Irani to lead the company’s business in Asia Pacific. Reporting to Philipp Justus, PayPal’s senior vice president of global [...]

Standard Chartered Bank (China) Limited (“Standard Chartered China”) recently announced that it has officially launched the Anti-Money Laundering (AML) solutions from Norkom Technologies. The implementation is part of a Group initiative to implement the solutions across the Bank’s key countries and businesses to help comply with local AML regulations in China and international regulatory expectations. [...]

Distributed system combines FX aggregation and customized execution strategies
Progress Software Corporation (NASDAQ: PRGS), a global supplier of application infrastructure software used to develop, deploy, integrate and manage business applications, today announced that Standard Chartered Bank has gone live with the Progress® Apama® FX Market Aggregation Accelerator in a distributed deployment spanning FX desks in [...]

- ACE solution meets latest FATF regulations and is enhanced with new International ACH Transaction detection capabilities
London and New York – 14th May, 2008, ACE Software Solutions (www.acesw.com), provider of intelligent payment, AML and STP solutions for the financial sector today announced the latest version of OFAC Guard addresses an advanced solution for the [...]

Bangalore, 13 May 2008 – In an attempt to bridge the gap between investors and technology companies, Yen Expo Pvt Ltd for the first time, is organizing an unique event for technology companies, Bangalore Technology Equity Fair (BTEF) 2008. The event will be held on 27th June 2008 in Sigma Room, Chancery Pavilion, Bangalore.
BTEF 2008 [...]

Over 3.4 million environmental pledges on The Greatest Race on Earth
Factonomy, a leading enabler of web-based business solutions, announced today that it designed and created the advanced web-based carbon calculator used by Standard Chartered² for The Greatest Race on Earth (GROE).
Standard Chartered encouraged people to select and undertake up to eight environmental pledges to coincide [...]

QualysGuard 6.0 Provides Collaboration Workflow and Comprehensive Scorecards on Network Security and Compliance Status for Operations Staff, Business Line Managers and Auditors
Qualys Stand G150, Infosecurity Europe tradeshow, Olympia, London
Infosecurity Europe Tradeshow, London, UK – 22 April — Qualys today announced QualysGuard 6.0, an upgrade to its flagship solution for vulnerability and compliance management. QualysGuard 6.0 [...]

New SaaS Suite simplifies compliance for Auditors, Security Professionals and Executive Management at same time as delivering independent verification of security posture right across the enterprise
Qualys Stand G150, Infosecurity Europe tradeshow, Olympia, London
Infosecurity Europe Tradeshow, London, UK – 21 April, 2008- Qualys. today introduced the world’s first service to satisfy the demands of security and [...]

American Express Company (NYSE: AXP) today announced that it has completed the sale of its international banking subsidiary, American Express Bank Ltd. (AEB), to Standard Chartered PLC. Standard Chartered will pay American Express a purchase price of approximately $823 million.
This transaction will result in a gain on the sale which will be reflected in [...]

Western Union (NYSE: WU) customers in Hong Kong can soon apply for small personal loans from PrimeCredit Limited (“PrimeCredit”), a wholly owned subsidiary of Standard Chartered Bank PLC, following an agreement signed by the two companies to offer a pilot consumer lending program.
Effective from 18 February 2008, the program will allow Western Union consumers [...]