Cognizant
acquires
Belgian
analytics
company,
Hedera
Consulting
Moneytrans celebrates
new headquarters opening
in Brussels
C
ognizant has acquired privately-
held Hedera Consulting, a company
specialising in business advisory and data
analytics services across a number of industry
sectors. The purchase further expands
Cognizant’s consulting, business insight and
digital transformation capabilities for clients in
Belgium and the Netherlands.
Based in Kontich, Belgium, Hedera
Consulting works with leading brands across
various industries. Hedera’s consultants and
data scientists specialise in helping clients
with growth strategy, innovation, marketing,
sales and customer service. Hedera
Consulting is now part of the Cognizant
Consulting business unit.
“The most successful companies are the ones
that reduce the time from informed insight
to action,” said Philip Lahey, Partner, Hedera
Consulting. “By joining forces with Cognizant,
we are even better positioned to help
clients define their strategy, transform their
businesses and gain insight and competitive
advantage in their fast-changing, highly
competitive marketplaces. Our combined
industry and local knowledge and experience,
as well as our strong joint team, will better
enable our customers in the Belgian and
Dutch markets to extract meaning from their
data and use it to effectively shape their
products, services and experiences.”
“In the Belgian and Dutch markets,
companies are re-designing their business
and IT operating models for the digital
era,” said Santosh Thomas, President,
Global Growth Markets, Cognizant. “Hedera
Consulting expands our ability to help
these European clients create agile and
digitally transformed enterprises that can
act and react to the oceans of data for
deeper customer insight, new product
development and to innovate and exploit
new business opportunities.”
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oneytrans has announced a
major milestone in its journey
of transformation into a technology-
driven company: it has relocated its
headquarters into the Palatium Complex,
at the hub and within touching distance
of several of the most sought-after areas
of Brussels, to continue its pursuit for
excellence and growth in technological
innovation in the era of digital, Big Data
and AI.
In celebration of this important occasion,
Moneytrans has joined hands with Mohr
World to host the welcome reception of
the annual payment conference.
The IMTC conference will particularly share
some insights on the revised Payment
Services Directive (PSD2) providing an
avenue to explore how we can best
harness the power of machine learning,
blockchain and digital for the greater good
of migrants, followed by panel discussion
to explore the FinTech revolution, the
situation of refugees, or the jurisdictions
applied in each European country. Speakers
and panellists include: Leon Isaacs, Faisal
Khan, Rob Ayers, Linda Shomo, and Jeremy
De Smet, among others.
A leader in the remittance and payment
industry, Moneytrans has developed both
expertise and insights into the practical
use of cutting-edge technology; as the
European financial sector is experiencing
many changes redefining banks, MTOs,
FX and FinTech firms’ positions within the
industry, Moneytrans is further developing
a complete range of services in its path
towards being the first European neo-
bank for migrants.
Francisco Sanchez, Moneytrans CEO,
said: “Innovation is part of our tradition.
We want to be inspired by the world out
there, whether it’s technologies, new
consumer behaviours, trends and new
partnerships, and then use that to drive
internal change.”
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