IPSX selects QuantHouse to distribute its commercial real estate pricing feeds to global quant community
- 7 years 8 months ago
- Trading Systems
QuantHouse, the leading independent global provider of end-to-end systematic trading solutions including innovative market data services, algo trading platform and infrastructure solutions, today announced that real-time pricing feeds from The International Property Securities Exchange (IPSX) are now available globally to all QuantHouse members looking to trade real estate as an asset class.
FSS makes Strategic Investment in Africa-based Ecentric Payment Systems
- 7 years 8 months ago
- Payments
FSS (Financial Software and Systems), a global PayTech company, has announced a strategic investment in Ecentric Payment Systems, a Standard Bank subsidiary and a leading payment processor in South Africa. FSS has acquired a 46% stake in Ecentric through a combination of primary and secondary investments, with a potential to further its stake holding.
Avaloq joins the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance
- 7 years 8 months ago
- Blockchain, Banking
Avaloq, a leading fintech company and international provider of software as a service (SaaS) and business process as a service (BPaaS) solutions to banks and wealth managers, today announced that it has joined the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA), the world's largest open source blockchain initiative.
TIBCO Announces Acquisition of High-Performance In-Memory Data Platform SnappyData
- 7 years 8 months ago
- Data, M&A Deals
TIBCO Software Inc., a global leader in integration, API management, and analytics, today announced it has acquired SnappyData. The acquisition will complement the TIBCO® Connected Intelligence platform with a unified analytics data fabric that enhances analytics, data science, streaming, and data management for various use cases requiring speed, volume, and agility.
Intelliflo’s fifth national conference open for bookings
- 7 years 8 months ago
- Infrastructure
Intelliflo has opened bookings for its fifth ‘Change the Game’ conference, to be held on Tuesday 18 June 2019 at the Business Design Centre (BDC) in London and on 4 July at the Manchester Central Convention Complex. A record 809 financial advisers, paraplanners and product providers from across the UK attended the 2018 conference. In anticipation of an even larger turnout in 2019, both events have moved into larger halls at the venues.
Velocity & B-Hive partnership links Fintech hubs in pan-European collaboration
- 7 years 8 months ago
- Artificial Intelligence, Infrastructure
The IA’s fintech innovation hub and accelerator, Velocity, and Brussels-based fintech ecosystem B-Hive have signed a partnership designed to boost fintech innovation across the asset management industry by promoting pan-European collaboration. The partnership signed by Fabian Vandenreydt, Executive Chairman, B-Hive and Peter Harrison, Chair of the IA Board, signals a commitment to a closer relationship between the two organisations with the aim...
SETL announces start of corporate reorganisation further to successful completion and approval of the regulated CSD development
- 7 years 8 months ago
- Blockchain
In line with its 2018 strategic and operational plan, SETL the London based institutional payment and settlement infrastructure provider using blockchain technology, has focussed its resources on successfully developing and funding the establishment of the ID2S and IZNES platforms in Paris. Of particular note, SETL made significant capital contributions to ID2S, the regulated CSD. In October 2018, the platform successfully completed its T2S...
National Settlement Depository first CSD to sign up for SWIFT gpi
- 7 years 8 months ago
- Payments
National Settlement Depository (NSD), Russia’s central securities depository (CSD) has become the first CSD to sign up for SWIFT’s gpi service – a rapid cross-border payments service that provides real-time payments tracking and transparency on bank fees and foreign exchange rates.
Banco do Brasil London Branch Deploys CloudMargin Platform for Global Collateral Processing
- 7 years 8 months ago
- Banking, Cloud
CloudMargin, creator of the world’s first and only collateral and margin management solution native to the cloud, today announced that Banco do Brasil in London, a branch of one of Latin America’s largest banks, has deployed the CloudMargin platform for its global collateral processing.
Savers at mercy of widening pensions advice gap
- 7 years 8 months ago
- Wealth Management
An advice gap exists in the UK, having started in the wake of the 2013 retail distribution review (RDR). This resulted in advisers making their charges transparent for consumers – and putting people with low wealth off seeking advice.
Survey Shows Disjointed Communications Technologies Fail Customers
- 7 years 8 months ago
- Cloud, Infrastructure
RingCentral UK Ltd., a leading provider of global enterprise cloud communications and collaboration solutions and a wholly owned subsidiary of RingCentral, Inc. (NYSE: RNG), released a new report entitled Overcoming the Digital Disconnect: How Disjointed Communications Technologies Are Letting Customers Down – and How to Solve it.
Avaya Opens New Customer Experience Centre in Guildford
- 7 years 8 months ago
- Cloud, Infrastructure
Following a year of investment and development, Avaya Holdings Corp. (NYSE:AVYA) today announced the opening of its new Customer Experience Centre (CEC) in Guildford. The state-of-the-art facility will act as the UK’s leading showcase of the latest contact centre, communication and collaboration technology that is enabling the digital workplace and excellent digital customer experiences.
Ant Financial Launches Distributed Core Banking Platform with Hoperun Information Technology
- 7 years 8 months ago
- Banking
Ant Financial Services Group (Ant Financial) and Jiangsu-based Hoperun Information Technology (Hoperun) today unveiled its Distributed Core Banking Platform (DCBP), a next generation banking product which is designed to help financial institutions shift their business models from transaction-oriented to customer-oriented. The platform also aims to help financial institutions tackle digital challenges, including distributed development, financial...
Funky Pigeon soars to new heights with Claranet’s AWS and DevOps optimisation
- 7 years 8 months ago
- Cloud
The challenge The company always faces seasonal spikes in website traffic and needed to ensure its online platform was stable and fully functional during busy periods. This was especially true at Christmas where workloads could increase by 5x to respond to customer demand and fluctuations in data traffic were creating network instability and having a negative effect on the customer experience.
TradingScreen Expands into Montréal
- 7 years 8 months ago
- Trading Systems, Infrastructure
TradingScreen Inc. (TS), the global, multi-asset class order and execution management system (OEMS), today announced that it would be expanding its development and technology operations to Montréal as “TradingScreen Electronic Financial Solutions Inc.” (TS Canada). TS’s expansion into Canada brings TS’s physical presence into nine countries.
