Fidessa enhances equities trading platform

• 9 years 5 months ago

Fidessa group plc (LSE: FDSA) has today announced the launch of new optimized trading capabilities for its sell-side equities trading platform. Designed to empower traders in an increasingly automated and competitive world, Fidessa’s Order Performance Monitor allows users to monitor all live orders simultaneously and identify any outliers in real time. In conjunction with this, a new Fidessa white paper, Optimized Trading - Empowering the trader...

Technology Enables New Opportunities for Branch Banking, According to New IDC Study

• 9 years 5 months ago
• Banking

 IDC Financial Insights today released a new study, Branch Transformation in a Digital World, which discusses the current challenges faced by banks in managing their branch networks and outlines the best ways to transform them.

OpenLink Selected by Australian Independent, United Petroleum

• 9 years 5 months ago
• Risk Management

OpenLink, the global leader in trading and risk management solutions to the energy, commodities, corporate, and financial services industries, today announced that United Petroleum has selected its RightAngle Energy Trading and Risk Management Solution. United Petroleum is an independent, Australian-owned petroleum company and one of the fastest growing companies in Australia, specializing in the retail and wholesale fuel markets, and ethanol...

Reval Survey Tracks Treasury Technology Use

• 9 years 5 months ago
• Risk Management

 Reval’s latest “Future-Proof Your Treasury” survey shows a year-over-year increase in the usage of treasury management systems by corporate treasury organizations, globally.

Agilysys Recognized for Mobile Cloud-Based Point-of-Sale Solution

• 9 years 5 months ago
• Cloud

 Agilysys, Inc. (Nasdaq: AGYS), a leading global provider of next-generation hospitality software solutions and services, today announced that the company's 

Maitland Group Selects Oracle FLEXCUBE Investor Servicing to Deliver Global Transfer Agency Services with Improved Coverage, Control and Efficiency

• 9 years 5 months ago

 Maitland, a global independent third-party fund administrator, has selected Oracle FLEXCUBE Investor Servicing to support the expansion of its global transfer agency services. The decision reflects the growing importance of transfer agency services in overall fund administration service. 

USForex To Launch Global Money App “Forex Money Transfer”

• 9 years 5 months ago
• Payments

GlobalPlatform and Smart Ticketing Alliance To Sign MoU

• 9 years 5 months ago
• Infrastructure

A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been agreed between the Smart Ticketing Alliance (STA) – the association driving a coordinated effort towards global ticketing interoperability for the public transport sector – and GlobalPlatform, the organization which standardizes the management of applications on secure chip technology. The two bodies will combine their efforts to establish an interoperable framework for smart ticketing in the public...

Stripe To Receive Funding From American Express, Visa and Sequoia Capital

• 9 years 5 months ago
• Payments

Hot payments startup Stripe has landed a new round of funding from investors including American Express, Visa and Sequoia Capital, valuing the San Francisco-based company at $5 billion.

Creditcall and Discovery Financial Services Signed Agreement

• 9 years 5 months ago
• Credit Cards

This agreement is part of Discover Global Network’s overall strategy to partner with key payment solution providers, such as Creditcall, to help drive increased Discover and Diners Club card acceptance. The agreement also means that Creditcall will, as standard, certify new solutions for Discover across future processor certifications, widening the reach of card acceptance for both parties. Creditcall is a leader in a number of sectors - from...

SETL to deploy an institutional payment and settlement infrastructure based on blockchain technology

• 9 years 5 months ago
• e-Payments

 SETL today announced its plans to deploy a multi-asset, multi-currency institutional payment and settlements infrastructure based on blockchain technology.  The SETL system will enable market participants to move cash and assets directly between each other, facilitating the immediate and final settlement of market transactions. The SETL system maintains a permissioned distributed ledger of ownership and transaction records, simplifying the...

Nasdaq Launches 'NFX' to Trade Energy Derivatives

• 9 years 5 months ago

Nasdaq (Nasdaq:NDAQ) announced that its US-based Nasdaq Futures, Inc. (NFX)will officially launch today. The platform will initially offer futures and options on oil, natural gas and US power benchmarks, with a fee holiday for the first nine months of trading.

DigiSEq – First organisation dedicated to remotely provisioning wearable devices to be certified by MasterCard

• 9 years 5 months ago
• e-Payments

DigiSEq has developed the technology to remotely personalise wearable devices for contactless payments. DigiSEq is the first to have developed this technology and gained approval from MasterCard using the M/Chip™ Advance payment application. DigiSEq’s solution securely delivers consumer payment credentials into wearables, such as watches, bracelets, and key fobs, enabling users to make contactless payments immediately after purchasing the...

Atom Selects Intelligent Environments Interact® product to deliver its digital platform

• 9 years 5 months ago
• Banking, Infrastructure

ntelligent Environments, the leading provider of digital financial services software, and Atom – the UK’s first digital-only bank – are partnering to deliver to the market a unique mobile banking solution. Atom will be deploying Interact®, Intelligent Environments’ market leading secure software platform to underpin their customers’ digital experience.  This digital only solution is entirely unique within the UK banking market. Atom Bank will...

Customers more engaged with their finances as Digital Revolution takes hold

• 9 years 5 months ago
• Banking

The rapid growth of digital banking has driven increased customer engagement, the latest figures from the Halifax Digital Dashboard show. In June, the number of customer interactions with Halifax stood at 69 million visits, which equates to 2.3 million interactions per day and nearly 1,600 every minute. This is an increase of nearly half (47%) from the 47 million in the same month in the previous year.