Misys, the leading financial software company, today announced the winners of its Misys 2016 Global InFusion Partner Awards. Nadeem Syed, CEO, and Brian Gibson, VP, Partners & Ecosystem, Misys, presented the awards during the Misys Global Partner Forum taking place in Prague today. The awards recognise the contribution that partners have made over the last 12 months in supporting customer success and driving innovation.

The Misys 2016 Global InFusion Partner Award categories and winners include:

Tagetik Planning For Banks is a packaged solution designed by Tagetik to help Offices of Finance with balance sheet planning, portfolio forecasting, scenario management and analysis. Compared to other vendors the key benefits of Tagetik include common data model, collaborative workflow, interesting data visualisation and fast speed of web–based execution. The solution runs on any browser, tablet or portable device. Its user friendly interface was developed in HTML5. Thanks to a huge set of banking specific built-in engines Tagetik is able to become a go-to solution for Finance.

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Markit, a leading global provider of financial information services, today announced that it has agreed to acquire Prism Valuation a leading provider of independent valuation and risk analysis of derivatives and structured products.

The acquisition will complement Markit’s leading Portfolio Valuations service and enable Markit to offer customers enhanced coverage of complex OTC derivatives and structured OTC products. It will also expand Markit’s customer base among regional banks and structured product issuers.

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 Fiserv, Inc., a leading global provider of financial services technology solutions, announced today that Welch State Bank, a $227 million asset financial institution based in Welch, Oklahoma, has selected the Precision^® core account processing platform and a host of integrated solutions from Fiserv.

Houlihan Lokey, the global investment bank, today announced that it has appointed Jacqueline Kosecoff, Ph.D. to its Board of Directors, (“Board”) as an independent director. The appointment is effective immediately, and she will stand for election to the Board at the 2016 annual meeting of shareholders. Dr. Kosecoff will serve on the Audit Committee and the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. With the addition, the Board expands to eleven members, three of whom are independent.

The tool helps procurers and supply chain professionals understand why bid-rigging is harmful, learn how to spot tell-tale signs that suggest a bid may be illegal, deal with suspect bids and know where to go for further help.