Axxsys Consulting Specialists in Financial Management Software Grow Through Acquisition
- 10 years 9 months ago
- M&A Deals
Axxsys Consulting, a successful and growing financial services consultancy firm, are announcing the acquisition of WS Technology, in order to strengthen their offering on Front Office Technology, Data Management, Performance and Regulatory Advisory Services. Axxsys' acquisition of financial technology consultancy WS Technology, which had a turnover of GBP 3,000.000 in 2014, adds a more diversified offering to Axxsys Consulting's current client...
SunGard launches investor financial planning apps through Windows Store
- 10 years 9 months ago
- Infrastructure
SunGard, in collaboration with Microsoft Corp., has launched a series of five financial planning applications, available through Windows Store, to help individuals improve their ability to reach their financial and retirement savings goals. The tools run quick assessments of an investor’s position to achieve their retirement objectives, show strategies to improve retirement funding, and illustrate fundamental financial planning preparedness.
Olivetree appoints Fred Ward to its event driven consultancy business in London
- 10 years 9 months ago
- People Moves
Olivetree Financial, a leading independent agency broker, has appointed Fred Ward to its event driven team, in order to further hone the firm’s consultancy skills for the buy-side community. Fred joins from Magnetar Capital, where he headed up its European equities event portfolio, and his responsibilities at Olivetree will be to advise both long-fund and hedge-fund clients on how to navigate tough-to-model special situations. He is based in...
AZIMO AND TRANSFERTO PARTNER TO LAUNCH INSTANT MOBILE TOP-UP SERVICES TO OVER 100 COUNTRIES
- 10 years 9 months ago
- Payments, Infrastructure
Azimo, the digital money transfer service, today announced the launch of its mobile airtime service. Through a strategic partnership with TransferTo, a leading provider of international airtime remittance, the new service will enable Azimo’s customers to instantly send airtime to pre-paid mobile phones in over 100 countries: an addressable market of over 4.5 billion people.
ISDA Launches New Industry Initiative for a Derivatives Product Identification Standard
- 10 years 9 months ago
- Infrastructure
The International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. (ISDA) has launched a new industry data project, aimed at developing an open-source standard derivatives product identification system that can be applied consistently and comprehensively across all derivatives facilities, including trading venues, clearing houses, repositories and other infrastructures.
Canadian Payments Association sets out modernisation vision
- 10 years 9 months ago
- Payments
As part of its initiative to modernize Canada's core national clearing and settlement framework and infrastructure, the CPA is creating a shared vision for the future of payments in Canada based on research, a global perspective, and industry views. Research from the Canadian Payments Association (CPA) and the Bank of Canada released today supports this initiative by outlining the most critical issues the industry must investigate to improve...
GFT to Launch Digital Banking Roadmap
- 10 years 9 months ago
- Banking
Digital banking goes much further than just using online technologies. It lets people decide how a bank can solve their financial challenges. It means banks can start advising customers on their needs in a consistent way and on the customersʼ terms.
Metro Bank to launch new portal for Intermediaries
- 10 years 9 months ago
- Banking, Infrastructure
The portal has been created with widespread support and input from the intermediary sector and represents the first phase of its mortgage switching initiative that will see further development throughout the year. A market first, the user friendly Product Switching Portal gives brokers clear and instant information to help them share new and existing products with homeowners in a matter of minutes.
Tipalti Launches First Ever W-8 Solution for Accounts Payable
- 10 years 9 months ago
- Payments
Tipalti (http://www.tipalti.com), provider of the leading global payments management platform, has fully integrated the first-ever intelligent Form W-8 collection solution into its platform. The solution helps U.S. companies automate the accounts payable (AP) process by both paying suppliers who are nonresidents, foreign alien or entities while ensuring W-8 tax form compliance.
5th Annual Middle East Banking Innovation Summit Concludes Successfully
- 10 years 9 months ago
- Banking
The two-day Middle East Banking Innovation Summit featuring 20+ presentations, over 30 speakers and more than 450 attendees came to a successful closure on Tuesday. The 5th edition of this summit reiterated its position as the leading platform in the Middle East region for the bankers to engage in idea sharing on trends and technological innovations driving the industry. The summit commenced with premium sponsors Visa, Schneider Electric and IBM...
ACI Worldwide’s UP Transaction Banking Achieves Industry Recognition
- 10 years 9 months ago
- Transaction Banking, Payments
ACI Worldwide (NASDAQ: ACIW), a leading global provider of electronic payment and banking solutions, is spotlighting several new industry initiatives and achievements within its Transaction Bankingportfolio, which offers end-to-end processing for commercial treasury management and
BT helps global financial industry keep data secure with new ethical hacking service
- 10 years 9 months ago
- Security
BT today announced the global launch of “BT Assure Ethical Hacking for Finance”, a new security service designed to test the exposure of financial services organisations to cyber-attacks. The wealth of valuable and sensitive personal data held by financial organisations, such as retail and investor banks and insurance companies, makes them among the most attractive targets for malicious hackers and cyber-criminals. This risk has intensified in...
TransferTo Simplifies Mobile Money Remittance with Launch of Mobile Money Hub at Finovate Fall
- 10 years 9 months ago
- Payments
TransferTo, a leading global mobile remittance hub, is making remittance faster, cheaper, simpler and more secure with the launch of its Mobile Money hub. Unveiled today at Finovate Fall in New York, the Mobile Money hub enables mobile operators and financial institutions to offer real-time money transfers to mobile money accounts.
British customers want high street banks
- 10 years 9 months ago
- Banking
Three quarters of Britons believe branches will still exist in 2025, with shorter queues (43%), access to more experts (29%) and a more personalised service (27%) top of the list of desirable features for the bank branch of the future. Despite the adoption of online and mobile banking services and as banks continue to close branches around the UK, 57% of the 2030 respondents surveyed by cash management experts Glory Global Solutions said they...
Financial traders find their voice with Telstra
- 10 years 9 months ago
Telstra today announced the latest addition to its Global Financial Trading Solutions portfolio - Telstra Trader Voice. This intelligent IP-enabled voice trading solution now completes Telstra’s offering of both electronic and voice based trading for its customers. Trader Voice runs on Telstra’s reliable, low latency network, which recently received the highest product scores from Gartner1, in two out of four use cases, High Capacity Network...
