MasterCard To Open Digital Security Facility To Its Customer
- 10 years 7 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
- 10 years 7 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
- 10 years 7 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
- 10 years 7 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
- 10 years 7 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
- 10 years 7 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
- 10 years 7 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
Canadian Payments Association Announces the Election of New Board of Directors
- 10 years 7 months ago
- People Moves
The new board will be chaired by Eileen Mercier, who will be supported by a carefully recruited team of accomplished Canadian and international payments, public policy, business and technology experts. The new board will help lead the CPA as it implements its strategy to modernize Canada's core national payments infrastructure as part of its overall vision to be the centre of excellence for payments in Canada.
AON Announced the Appointment of New CEO
- 10 years 7 months ago
- People Moves
Aon plc (NYSE: AON), the leading global provider of risk management and human resource consulting and
PayPal and TransferTo Bring Mobile Airtime Top-Up to Canada
- 10 years 7 months ago
- Payments
PayPal today announced that they have teamed up with TransferTo, a global airtime remittance leader, to offer mobile airtime top-up in Canada. Without any transfer fees, Canadians can now use their PayPal account to instantly top-up prepaid mobile phones of their relatives and friends that are registered with over 400 carriers in more than 100 countries.
Palestine Monetary Authority goes live on SmartVista
- 10 years 7 months ago
- Retail Banking
BPC Banking Technologies, the leading provider of Open System payment solutions, together with Palestine Monetary Authority (PMA) announces the launch of the National Switch of Palestine. The National Switch, based on SmartVista, is considered a cornerstone for the Electronic Retail Payments in Palestine.
Uber Taps Its Global Payments Partner, Adyen, to Expand into Morocco
- 10 years 7 months ago
- Payments
Adyen, a leading global payments technology company, today announced an expansion of its existing partnership with Uber – powering payments for the ride-hailing company’s users in Casablanca, Morocco. Uber, now live in 58 countries, teamed up with Adyen to enable local users in Morocco to pay with locally issued credit and debit cards.
OpenMAMA Sees Strong Adoption across Financial Services Sector
- 10 years 7 months ago
- Infrastructure
OpenMAMA, the project developed to allow financial services firms to move more freely between market data technology and content vendors, today announces its re-launch boasting a new advisory group, increased vendor coverage and, for the first time, the ability to bridge data to and from Thomson Reuters Enterprise Platform (TREP) using a completely open source stack.
Misys wins “Best buy-side pricing and market display” in the Systems in the City Awards 2015
- 10 years 7 months ago
Misys, the global application software and services company, has been awarded “Best buy-side pricing and market display” for its FusionInvest solution at the Systems in the City Awards. Misys FusionInvest was recognised for its ability to enable investment firms to price a wide range of asset classes accurately across listed, OTC derivatives and structured products.
Palestine Monetary Authority goes live on SmartVista
- 10 years 7 months ago
- Payments
BPC Banking Technologies, the leading provider of Open System payment solutions, together with Palestine Monetary Authority (PMA) announces the launch of the National Switch of Palestine. The National Switch, based on SmartVista, is considered a cornerstone for the Electronic Retail Payments in Palestine.
