FIX Trading Community, the non-profit, industry-driven standards body at the heart of global financial trading, today announce that it has produced EMEA specific guidelines on Execution Venue Analysis. These latest revisions focus on adding further clarity around Last Capacity and Liquidity flag definitions, as well as mandating all executing venues, including broker crossing and alternative trading systems, to supply valid Market Identifier Codes (MICs) on their executions.

Profile Software, an international financial solutions provider, announced today the active support of leading industry conferences in the Asia Pacific region as well as the recruitment and engagement of dedicated and experienced personnel to overlook the market.

 Fiserv, Inc. (NASDAQ: FISV), a leading global provider of financial services technology solutions, today announced that First Hawaiian Bank, the oldest and largest bank in Hawaii with $18.7 billion in assets, has selected a suite of digital banking, payments and personal financial management (PFM) capabilities from Fiserv. The integrated services will enable First Hawaiian Bank to keep pace with customer expectations for leading technology, provide a unified banking experience across channels and enhance digital customer engagement.

Bitcasa, the cloud drive for the device economy, today announced a licensing agreement with SanDisk, a global leader in flash storage solutions, for the development of SanDisk-branded cloud storage solutions using the Bitcasa cloud storage platform.

I just got pinged some more research from Deloitte, who have produced a fascinating report about the size of the market for the Internet of Things (IoT).  Here's the management summary and you can download the whole report hereif you want.

With an entire industry focused on financial inclusion, small finance companies, payment banks and microfinance institutions across India have a new option to improve time to market while focusing on building and serving their customers. FIS™ (NYSE: FIS), a global leader in banking and payments technology as well as consulting and outsourcing solutions, today introduced Bank

Ormuco, today announces it has signed a 5 year multi-million pound contract with their UK data centre and colocation partner, MigSolv.  The deal means MigSolv can now offer high end cloud solutions and rival their competitors in the ever growing cloud market place.

The B2 Group, provider of based payments, investment funds and FX automation software and consultancy solutions for transaction banks, third-party administrators, fund companies and corporates across the globe, announced today the next generation version of PayEX has been released.

 ADVA Optical Networking announced today that Consorsbank is using the ADVA FSP 3000 for secure connectivity between its data centers.

talech Inc., a cloud-based POS solution, today announced a simple, affordable, EMV ready payment and POS solution that works with specific Ingenico Group terminals, can be activated seamlessly through a software download, and does not require customers to change payment processors.

Customers using talech's point of sale solution can connect to Ingenico Group's innovative payment terminals to start accepting EMV payments including swipe, chip-and-pin, chip-and-signature, as well as contactless solutions.