Fidessa's F&O Platform Named FOW's Trading System of the Year
- 9 years 2 months ago
- Trading Systems
Fidessa group plc (LSE: FDSA) today announced that its futures & options trading platform has been named Sell-side Trading System of the Year at the FOW International Awards. This is the fifth consecutive win for Fidessa in this category and follows a win in the same category, for the fourth year running, at FOW's Awards for Asia, announced in September.
Lombard Risk Teams Up with Atos to Deliver Collateral Management Solution to German market
- 9 years 2 months ago
- Infrastructure
Lombard Risk Management, a leading provider of integrated collateral management and regulatory reporting solutions for the financial services industry, has signed a co-operation agreement with Atos, an international leader in digital services, to facilitate the delivery of Lombard Risk’s award-winning collateral solution, COLLINE®, to the German market from early 2017.
Senjō Group Invests in Start-Up Tjaara
- 9 years 2 months ago
- Investment
Senjō Group, a global payments operator and FinTech investment firm, announced today its partnership and funding of Tjaara Pte. Ltd, a Singapore-based B2B service. Tjaara or “Marketplace” in Arabic, uses a group buy concept to aggregate demand from customers to present a large consolidated order to pre-qualified manufacturers.
JenCap Acquires NIF Group
- 9 years 2 months ago
- M&A Deals
JenCap Holdings LLC announced today that it has agreed to acquire privately held NIF Group, Inc. (NIF), a managing general agency, program administrator and wholesale insurance broker based in Manhasset, New York, with six offices located on the east and west coasts of the United Sates. NIF was formed by Michael Orlando in 1976 and has grown to over $185 million in annual written premiums. Mr. Orlando, along with a management team led by NIF...
Macquarie Group’s Delaware Investments Welcomes John Leonard As Head Of Equities
- 9 years 2 months ago
- People Moves
Macquarie Group’s Delaware Investments today announced the appointment of John Leonard as head of equities, effective March 3, 2017. He will provide strategic oversight of the firm’s nine U.S.-based equity investment teams. Based in Philadelphia, Leonard will report to Shawn Lytle, president of Delaware Investments, and will serve as a member of the firm's senior leadership team. In addition, he will become part of the global management...
Lotte Card Unveils Blockchain-based Biometric Authentication Service with Blocko's Blockchain Technology
- 9 years 2 months ago
- Blockchain
Lotte Card, one of the biggest card companies in Korea, adopted a biometric-based authentication system service in its payment app jointly with Blocko Inc., a blockchain startup. Financial organizations in Korea, including banks, Korea Exchange and card companies, are actively adopting blockchain technology, but this is the first case in Korea that commercialized blockchain technology combined with biometric-based authentication system.
Ancoa Named Best Market Surveillance Technology at the 2016 FOW Awards
- 9 years 2 months ago
- Infrastructure
Ancoa, provider of contextual surveillance and insightful analytics for exchanges, regulators, buy- and sell-side firms, today announced it has won ‘Best Market Surveillance Technology’ at the 2016 Futures & Options World (FOW) International Awards. The award recognises the ongoing enhancements made to the Ancoa surveillance platform, which have enabled customers to meet the Market Abuse Regulation (MAR) deadline of July 2016.
Wynnchurch Capital Acquires Rosboro
- 9 years 2 months ago
- M&A Deals
Wynnchurch Capital (“Wynnchurch”), a leading middle-market private equity firm, announced today that it has acquired Rosboro Company, LLC (“Rosboro” or the "Company"). Rosboro is well known as a leading integrated forest products operation producing a wide variety of products including laminated beams (glulam for residential and light commercial construction), studs (home building market), and veneer (plywood and LVL production) at seven...
FIS to Sell SunGard Public Sector and Education Businesses to Vista
- 9 years 2 months ago
- M&A Deals
FIS™, a global leader in financial services technology, today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to sell its SunGard Public Sector and Education businesses to Vista Equity Partners (Vista) for $850 million. The transaction is expected to close in the first quarter of 2017, subject to required regulatory approvals and customary closing conditions.
Semafone Wins New US Contracts Totalling $7.5 million
- 9 years 2 months ago
- Security, Data
Semafone, which provides secure payment software for call centres, has reported three new client wins in North America worth $7.5 million, only six months after opening its headquarters in Boston. The company’s substantial investment in its North American operations has contributed significantly to Semafone’s 30 per cent growth in its customer base worldwide.
Western Union to Provide Cross-Border Mobile Money Transfer Capabilities to Viber users in UK
- 9 years 2 months ago
- Payments
The Western Union Company, a leader in global payment services, announced it is enhancing its existing relationship with Viber, a leading mobile messaging app with 754M unique users worldwide, by enabling Viber users in the UK to send money domestically and internationally to more than 200 countries and territories from the convenience of the Viber app.
First Data Introduces Clover™ Mini and Clover™ Mobile in the U.K
- 9 years 2 months ago
- Infrastructure
Entrepreneurs want technology solutions that help businesses operate more effectively, foster better engagement with customers, and securely accept the latest innovation in payments. To that end, First Data , the global leader in commerce-enabling technology, today announced the expansion of its Clover platform with the official launch of Clover Mini and Clover Mobile in the U.K. The “all-in-one” business management solutions have enjoyed broad...
Vantiv and PPRO Group Form Strategic Partnership
- 9 years 2 months ago
- Payments
Credit card acquirers across prosperous markets, such as the US and UK, are making bold changes to attract consumers from growing ecommerce markets. Vantiv, Inc. (NYSE: VNTV), a leading provider of payment processing services, and PPRO Group, a cross border e-payment provider, today announces the latest partnership to break convention and offer international alternative payment methods (APMs) to merchants looking to conquer European and Asian...
The Beast Apps Launches Minotaur Solution
- 9 years 2 months ago
- Security and Compliance
The Beast Apps, a leading global provider of rapidly deployed data, analytics, trading and compliance solutions for the financial services industry announced the launch of Minotaur, available for demonstration today. Minotaur provides banks with a MiFID II compliance solution that integrates disparate systems for client, sales, and trader workflow across any asset class. Minotaur helps banks integrate and deploy a comprehensive MiFID II solution...
Hong Kong Brokers Select Fidessa for Shenzhen Connect
- 9 years 2 months ago
- Trading Systems
Fidessa group plc has today announced that seventeen Hong Kong-based brokers have been using Fidessa for the Shenzhen-Hong Kong Stock Connect link since it went live on 5th December. Eva Fu, Product Marketing Manager at Fidessa, said the uptake of Fidessa’s Shenzhen-Hong Kong Stock Connect solution had been rapid due to the success of its Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect solution in 2014.
