London-based International Finance Magazine has conferred the 2015 awards for 'Best Retail Bank' and 'Best Retail Customer Service Bank' in Kuwait to Gulf Bank. The awards will be presented in London later this year in November.

Loylogic, the leader in global e-commerce and e-payment solutions for loyalty programs, has developed a brilliant browser add-on for Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer for its innovative PointsPay solution.

Liquidity Services (NASDAQ: LQDT), a global solution provider in the reverse supply chain with the world’s largest marketplace for business surplus, announced today that it has once again been named “Asset Disposal Firm of the Year” by ACQ Magazine’s Global Awards 2015.

 Equiniti Pancredit, a specialist lending software provider, has been chosen by leading digital communications company, O2 UK, to deliver the technology behind its latest flexible offering for small business customers.  Business Essentials will support companies with their business-use mobile phone expenditure through a new finance initiative.

For Aspera, an IBM company and creator of technologies that move the world's data at maximum speed, IBC 2015 marks the company's biggest ever presence at the show in the company's 10-year history.

The Australian Federal Court has ordered Visa to pay $18 million in fines for freezing our rival currency conversion services on terminals that use it cards.

Wynyard Group (NZX:WYN), has won a new contract with The Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) to provide Wynyard risk management software. RBNZ is New Zealand's central bank and responsible for operating monetary policy to maintain stable prices and assisting the functioning of the country's financial system.

Two in five Americans (39 percent) use a mobile device to manage their bank account at least once per month and nearly half of mobile device owners (45 percent) do so, according to a recent survey by the American Bankers Association.

-       Mandatory Electronic Trading of Japanese Yen Interest Rate Swaps Takes Effect

Tokyo, September 1, 2015 — Bloomberg Tradebook Japan Limited (“Tradebook Japan”) today announced the launch of its Electronic Trading Platform (ETP) in Japan, in support of the September 1 mandate for banks and securities firms to use electronic platforms for specified over-the-counter (OTC) derivative transactions.