BCSG teams up with Deutsche Bank to Bring Online Tools to Small Businesses in Italy
- 9 years 5 months ago
- Banking
Deutsche Bank teams up with BCSG to launch db Impresa eXtra, the first ever web aggregator in the Italian Market to offer non-banking services to SMEs and Midcorporates, addressing clients and prospects.
Bloomberg Receives Multilateral Trading Facility Authorisation from the UK's Financial Conduct Authority
- 9 years 5 months ago
Bloomberg Trading Facility Limited (BTF), an affiliate of Bloomberg LP, announced today that it has received authorisation from the UK Financial Conduct Authority to operate a multilateral trading facility (MTF). The MTF draws on Bloomberg's established and successful trading venue capabilities in the creation of a platform for the execution of interest rate swaps (IRS) and credit default swaps (CDS) and will offer both request for quote and...
Major Swedish Bank To Use AxiomSL’s Platform To Centralize Its Head-office Regulatory Calculations And Reporting
- 9 years 5 months ago
- Risk Management
AxiomSL, a global provider of regulatory reporting and risk management solutions, announced today that a large Swedish bank has chosen to use AxiomSL’s platform to centralize its head-office regulatory calculations and reporting, and its branch-level reporting in Germany, Norway, Finland, Poland, Denmark, Austria and the United Kingdom (UK). The requirements covered by the agreement include statistical reporting and the Capital Requirements...
Nippon Wealth Opts for Wolters Kluwer Financial Services as it Establishes Operations in Hong Kong
- 9 years 5 months ago
- Risk Management
Wolters Kluwer Financial Services has signed Nippon Wealth Limited, a Restricted License Bank (NWB) as a user of OneSumX. The restricted license bank, based in Hong Kong and focused on Asia and Japan, will specifically use the solution for anti-money laundering (AML) and regulatory reporting, as it establishes its operations.
Surecomp DOKA 5 Trade Finance Solution Awarded 2015 SWIFT Accreditation
- 9 years 5 months ago
- Trade Finance
Surecomp®, the leading global provider of trade finance solutions for banks and corporations, announced today that DOKA 5®, its configurable bank back-office solution for documentary trade finance, hasbeen awarded the “SWIFT Certified Application – Trade Finance” label for a 15th consecutive year.
Huawei to Establish an Open Platform Ecosystem for the Finance Industry
- 9 years 5 months ago
- Infrastructure
Huawei recently announced that it will partner with eleven of the world’s leading banking IT solution providers to establish an open platform ecosystem for the finance industry at Huawei’s Global Financial Services Industry (FSI) Summit 2015 in Beijing, China.
McGraw Hill Financial to Acquire SNL Financial
- 9 years 5 months ago
- M&A Deals
McGraw Hill Financial (NYSE: MHFI) today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire SNL Financial for approximately $2.225 billion in cash. The economic impact to McGraw Hill Financial will be partially offset by tax benefits with an estimated present value of approximately $550 million resulting from the transaction.
WorldRemit To Launch Mobile Money Transfers in Sri Lanka
- 9 years 5 months ago
- Payments
WorldRemit, the ‘WhatsApp of money’, today launches instant Mobile Money transfers to Sri Lanka. Customers in 50 countries can now send money direct to eZ Cash mobile wallets – just like an instant message. WorldRemit’s ground breaking mobile-to-mobile remittance service already enables people to send funds straight to Mobile Money wallets in countries across Africa, Asia and Oceania. Now customers can send instant, low-cost money transfers...
MasterCard To Open Digital Security Facility To Its Customer
- 9 years 5 months ago
- Security
Located in England, the MasterCard DigiSec Lab is focused on proactively testing threats to all forms of digital payments in coordination with government security agencies and leading academics.
Rackspace Collaborates With Intel to Accelerate OpenStack Enterprise Feature Development and Adoption
- 9 years 5 months ago
- Cloud
Rackspace® (NYSE: RAX), the #1 managed cloud company, today announced a collaboration with Intel® Corporation to form the OpenStack Innovation Center. This center of excellence will help accelerate the development of enterprise capabilities and significantly add to the number of developers contributing to upstream OpenStack code. The project will bring together OpenStack engineers from Rackspace and Intel to advance the scalability,...
Ipreo to Acquire iLEVEL; Form Private Capital Markets Division
- 9 years 5 months ago
- M&A Deals
Ipreo, a global leader of data, market intelligence and productivity solutions to capital markets and corporate professionals, today announced the acquisition of iLEVEL, a leading portfolio monitoring, analytics and transparency platform for global private capital markets. iLEVEL will be merged with Ipreo's Alternative Assets group to form a new Private Capital Markets division within Ipreo.
Fiserv Joins BIAN to Continue to Develop the Standardised IT Framework for the Banking Industry
- 9 years 5 months ago
- Banking
The Banking Industry Architecture Network e.V (BIAN) welcomes three new members to its fast growing global network today, creating an international network of 60 of the leading banks, service providers, software vendors and academic partners. The international software and BPO provider Avaloq, Lebanese banking core applications developer BML Istisharat and financial services technology provider Fiserv, will now work with the current members to...
UnionPay cards can be used in more than 1,200 overseas educational institutions for safe and convenient tuition payment
- 9 years 5 months ago
- Payments
UnionPay International announced on July 23 that the number of overseas educational institutions, including high schools, colleges and universities accepting UnionPay cards for tuition payment has risen to more than 1,200. The service is available in countries and regions for studying abroad such as the US, Canada, Australia, England, New Zealand, Hong Kong and Taiwan and covers many prestigious universities.
First Financial Bank Expands Service Offerings with Acquisition of Oak Street Holdings Corporation
- 9 years 5 months ago
- M&A Deals
First Financial Bank, N.A., a subsidiary of First Financial Bancorp (Nasdaq: FFBC) (collectively "the Company" and "First Financial"), signed a definitive agreement to acquire Oak Street Holdings Corporation ("Oak Street") for $110 million in cash.
IBM Acquires Compose to Expand Cloud Data Services
- 9 years 5 months ago
- M&A Deals
IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced the acquisition of San Mateo, CA-based Compose, Inc., a privately held company that provides MongoDB, Redis, Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL, and other database as a service (DBaaS) offerings targeted at
