Across the financial industry a Capco/Finextra global survey confirms growing awareness that Utilities are useful – not least because of their potential to transform the way banks approach compliance.

Now we know. This is more than ‘sourcing on steroids’.

Utilities should be seen as a great deal more than ‘sourcing on steroids’. Well configured and smartly implemented, a Utilities model can transform areas of bank operation that are crying out for fresh approaches.

Lombard Risk Management, a leading provider of collateral management and regulatory reporting solutions for the financial services industry, is pleased to announce the launch of AgileREPORTER, its next generation agile solution for regulatory reporting. Today, the company also unveils its new global identity; one that reflects the agility and competitive advantage the firm brings to its clients, and launches its new website.   

 OTAS Technologies (OTAS), a specialist provider of market analytics and trader intelligence, today announced an enhanced product offering with 2iQ, a behavioral finance research firm that provides insider transaction data for over 45,000 stocks worldwide.

A review of 39,000 data points, across 657 sites and 14 merchant categories shows that merchants are getting worse, not better, when it comes to optimizing their sites for mobile checkout, leaving as much as $152 billion dollars on the table.

“Of course, that $152 billion is not lost forever,” says BlueSnap CEO Ralph Dangelmaier, “they are just lost to other merchants who are better able to accommodate a mobile shopper.”

NZX is pleased to advise it has successfully transitioned to a shortened T+2 settlement cycle for all trades executed on its cash markets effective today, Monday 7 March 2016.