Meed, the Santa Monica-based company committed to bringing socially-conscious innovation to the financial sector, today announced that Anatol von Hahn had agreed to join as Vice-Chairman. Von Hahn had been announced as a member of the Meed Advisory Board back in March, after he left a distinguished career of over 30 years in international banking with the Scotiabank organization across Canada as well as the establishment and expansion of operations in Mexico, the Caribbean and across Central and South America.

SS&C Technologies Holdings reports that Alpima, a London-based advisory firm serving professional and institutional clients, has selected Advent Portfolio Exchange®(APX) and Moxy® to support its digital advisory platform.

Together with SS&C, Alpima's platform combines the power of digitalization with personalization to give its institutional clients a new investment experience. Alpima is thrilled to be working with SS&C to provide a unique solution and the ability to assemble and execute sophisticated investment strategies simply, quickly, and cost-effectively.

IBM announced that developers and IT managers across the U.S. cited IBM Bluemix as one of the fastest growing and one of the most widely adopted platforms as a service (PaaS) according to a new survey from the analyst firm Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG).

 Nasdaq BWise has been selected by Dubai Islamic Bank, the largest Islamic bank in the United Arab Emirates, to support and further enhance their risk management, compliance and internal control processes gaining a deeper and more real-time visibility into their risks and overarching control frameworks.

Jumio, Corp. the leader in digital ID verification today announced Cityscoot, the mobile scooter sharing network in Paris, is getting Parisians moving by allowing users to instantly hire and drive its fleet of scooters.

Solving the MiFID II challenge requires a significant amount of human resources and technology investment that, if solved on an individual basis could prove very costly with only limited, if any, competitive advantage.  Project Sentinel’s collaborative approach enables market participants to pool their resources by investing in a standards-based, strategic MiFID II compliant technology solution that will automate the regulatory business processes for the front office; delivering that functionality with maximum efficiency and minimum commercial risk.

Fifth Third Bank's customers will have access to fast, simple and secure digital payments across devices. Fifth Third Masterpass, developed with Mastercard, enables customers to shop online, in app and now, in-store with Android devices.

ACI Worldwide, a leading global provider of real-time electronic payment and banking solutions, today announced the results of its new Thai Commerce & Payment Study. The survey asked approximately 300 technologists about their shopping habits and payment preferences for in-store, online and mobile transactions in Thailand, where eCommerce sales are expected to be valued at 800 billion Baht in 2021.

Splice Machine, the open-source SQL RDBMS powered by Hadoop and Spark, today announced that it has entered a strategic partnership with Incedo, a technology solutions provider specializing in data and analytics, product engineering and emerging technologies. The partnership will generate solutions to help enterprises consolidate, store, and centrally manage all of their data, as well as accelerate data processing for faster data-driven decision making.

Intellect Design Arena Limited announced the launch of Intellect OneMARKETS, an end-to-end integrated 360-degree platform, encompassing the complete spectrum of Securities Trading and Asset Services. The advanced comprehensive platform will provide financial institutions with three key advantages that are the need of the hour: Speed, Single Integrated View and Straight-Through-Processing.