Fidessa group plc (LSE: FDSA) today announced that it has been named Best Front-Office Execution Platform in the 2017 Waters Sell-side Technology Awards, the third consecutive win for Fidessa in this category.

Recent years have seen the operating landscape change dramatically for market participants as a result of regulation, competitive pressures and increasing globalisation. In order to remain relevant in today's complex marketplace, brokers need to reflect these changes in the execution services they offer, whilst at the same time reducing costs and improving efficiency.

Previousely, Lloyds Banking Group introduced a new mentoring scheme that sees FinTech start-ups benefit from the broad expertise of its colleagues from across the Group.

Now paymentwall is connected to all banks in Sweden, including Nordea Bank, SEB, Handelsbanken, and Swedbank, allowing every person with a bank account in Sweden to pay using online bank transfer. 

Today, Visa Inc. has become the first card network that allow participating issuers to provide their U.S. commercial accountholders a comprehensive view of their Amazon Business purchases. The new enhanced transaction data functionality, initially available to Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Citi and PNC Bank, N.A., U.S. commercial accountholders through Amazon Business, provides full line-item details on Amazon Business customers’ purchases made with their Visa commercial card and can seamlessly integrate with popular reconciliation tools.

Today Motion AI, the major chatbot building platform that services global consumer brands including Kia, Fiverr, Sony, Wix and many more, unveiled the first-ever chatbot store, Bot Store.  Bot Store is a marketplace built on top of Motion AI's leading visual bot-building platform that offers turn-key templates for many chatbot use cases including customer service, meeting scheduling and surveys.

The current debate between ESMA, the European Commission and market participants on the establishment of networks of systematic internalisers (SIs) is unsurprising given the amount of regulatory change and the potential for market innovation.

Today Avis Budget Group, Inc., a global leader in providing vehicle rental services, reported the completion of a transaction that will allow the Company to operate the Budget brand in Poland directly and to expand its presence in the Polish market. Prior to the transaction, the Budget brand had been operated in Poland by a third-party licensee since 1990.  Avis Budget Group had previously acquired its Avis licensee in Poland in November 2015. 

FlexTrade Systems (@FlexTrade),a global leader in multi-asset execution and order management systems, today announced that Quantopian (@Quantopian), a quantitative investment firm, has deployed FlexONE, the company’s new order / execution management system (OEMS) for the buy side.

Quantopian is an investment firm that offers a free online platform for education and creation of institutional-quality investment algorithms. The platform currently has more than 120,000 members.

Synechron designs first-of-its-kind café branch complete with barista and digital onboarding

Coffee and Impulsive Banking are infused with the latest digital technologies