Industry and Business News

The tough economic and business climate, while dispiriting to some, has highlighted the resilience and creativity of many UK businesses. It has enabled many media companies to make tough decisions, changes and investments to position them better for the future.

Spending on digital advertising in the UK has soared this year despite the recession, fuelled by smartphone sales, a survey has indicated.

Third Party Administrators (TPAs) provide custody and fund administration services for asset owners and managers including insurers, fund managers, pension funds and hedge funds. Most large Insurance firms have outsourced their custody and fund administration functions to TPAs although some firms continue performing those functions in-house. Solvency II has created demand to extend those TPA services to include delivery of asset data content on behalf of insurance firms to assist them in fulfilling their obligations under all three pillars of Solvency II.

Product and Company News

We are pleased to announce that Icon UK have signed a 5 year exclusive distribution contract with Xyzmo Software GmbH.

SIGNificant software by xyzmo wins the 2011 global Signature Verification Competition for Online Skilled Forgery Detection.

According to a study carried out by the IT consulting company IDC, the overwhelming majority of executive officers think that quick and easy access to information is a prerequisite for optimising decision-taking processes, while saving time, nerves and helping avoid duplication within a company.

Knowledge workers can spend huge amounts of time searching for content or manually integrating it into existing processes. With “COPiX”, icon now offers a market leading content integration solution to complement icon’s document creation and output management solutions.

London based company, Icon UK, and Stuttgart based icon Systemhaus GmbH, the major provider of Customer Communications Management (“CCM”) solutions in the German market, today announced the availability and support of their icon Suite based solutions to the UK market.