Axiom Announced the Appointment of Mathew Keshav Lewis As the Co-Head of its Global Banking Practice
- 9 years 4 months ago
- People Moves
Axiom, a leading provider of technology-enabled legal services, today announced that Mathew Keshav Lewis has joined the firm as the Co-Head of its Global Banking Practice.
FIS To Agree $9.1 billion SunGard Deal
- 9 years 4 months ago
- M&A Deals
FIS has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Sungard for $9.1 billion in a cash and stock deal, creating a fintech powerhouse covering the full spectrum of banking and capital markets services. Private equity-owned SunGard filed for an IPO in June, having appointed financial advisors to explore its options in April following an approach from an unidentified third party. At the time, SunGard's owners had hung a $10 billion price tag on the...
Bromium Black Hat Survey: Endpoint Risk Five Times Greater Than Network or Cloud
- 9 years 4 months ago
- Security
Bromium®, Inc., the pioneer of threat isolation to prevent data breaches, today announced the publication of “Black Hat 2015: State of Security,” a survey of more than 100 information security professionals conducted at the Black Hat Conference 2015.
Geoswift Joins Forces with UnionPay International and Western Union Business Solutions to Offer Tuition Payment Promotion
- 9 years 4 months ago
- Payments
Geoswift, Western Union Business Solutions, a subsidiary of The Western Union Company, and UnionPay International today announced a promotion where UnionPay will pay for medical insurance coverage for eligible students that process tuition payments through their payment network.
Japan Post Bank chooses Earthport Payment Network to provide cross-border services for its customers
- 9 years 5 months ago
- Payments
Earthport (AIM: EPO), the leading payment network for cross border transactions, announces an agreement to enable cross-border services for Japan Post Bank, Japan’s largest retail bank in terms of deposits. The first of its kind, this partnership will enable the bank to provide improved customer experience and reach for cross border consumer remittances.
WorldRemit Introduces Mobile Money Transfers to Burundi
- 9 years 5 months ago
- Payments
Online money transfer service WorldRemit today launches instant Mobile Money transfers to Burundi, the first remittance service to do so. Customers in 50 countries can now send money direct to EcoCash mobile wallets – just like an instant message. WorldRemit’s mobile-to-mobile remittance service already enables people to send funds direct to Mobile Money wallets in countries across Africa, Asia and Oceania. Now the 350,000 Burundians who live...
Confluence Fortifies Its European Expansion with New Addition to its London Performance Analytics Team
- 9 years 5 months ago
- Investment, Data
Confluence, a global leader in investment data management automation for regulatory, financial and investor reporting, continues its expansion in Europe with a new addition to its London office: Katie Kiss takes the position of Director of Performance Analytics.
Calypso Appoints Chief Product Officer
- 9 years 5 months ago
- People Moves
Calypso Technology, Inc., the standard for treasury and capital markets software, has appointed Pedro Porfirio as Senior Vice President, Chief Product Officer. In this role, Porfirio will be responsible for overall product strategy, driving product development and innovation across Calypso's solutions.
UK Pension Administrator Deploys Eagle to Deliver Data Quality and Transparency
- 9 years 5 months ago
- Data
Eagle Investment Systems LLC (Eagle), a BNY Mellon company and leading provider of financial services technology, today announced that RPMI Railpen, a leading pension provider in the UK, has deployed Eagle’s enterprise data management solution, using Eagle ACCESS(SM), Eagle’s secure private cloud.
Optimal Payments to Complete the Acquisition of the Skrill Group
- 9 years 5 months ago
- M&A Deals
The acquisition, for approximately €1.1 billion (US$ 1.2 billion), will create a leading payment and e-wallet provider with significant international scale and reach, and a product portfolio that includes Skrill, paysafecard, Payolution, NETELLER®, Net+® NETBANX® and FANS Entertainment.
Atom Bank To Contract With Iress
- 9 years 5 months ago
- Banking, Infrastructure
UK startup Atom Bank is to be the first client for a re-engineered mortgage origination platform designed to meet the needs of digital challenger banks by Iress
Emerald To Expand INDATA iPM Cloud Usage
- 9 years 5 months ago
- Cloud, Infrastructure
Emerald Advisers, Inc. Rapidly Implements INDATA’S iPM Cloud Technology Platform for Elessar Investment Management following acquisition INDATA, a leading industry provider of software and services for buy-side firms, today announced that Emerald Advisers, Inc., an INDATA client since 2013, has fully transitioned Elessar Investment Management onto INDATA’s iPM Cloud platform.
KOR Group Deploys OneTickCloud Tick Data and Analytics Platform
- 9 years 5 months ago
- Infrastructure
OneMarketData, LLC , the founders of OneTick, a single solution for event stream processing and tick data management, today announced that KOR Group, LLC, a SaaS (Softwa
Berkeley Research Group (BRG) deploys Huddle to harness a global network of business and technical expertise
- 9 years 5 months ago
- Cloud, Security
Huddle, the leader in secure collaboration tools for enterprise and government, today announced that Berkeley Research Group (BRG) is using Huddle to facilitate collaboration practices, bringing together its network of experts and affiliate organizations from all over the world to offer more efficient services than ever before.
Canada to Modernise National payments infrastructure
- 9 years 5 months ago
- Payments
The Canadian Payments Association has hired global consulting firm McKinsey to draw up plans to modernise the nation's core payments infrastructure. McKinsey will conduct stakeholder interviews and prepare a fact-based analysis to support the multi-year project to renew the CPA's payments clearing and settlement infrastructure. "By mid-2016, our goal is to identify user needs and priorities, as well as likely go-forward requirements, and to...
