Paylink Solutions has made a senior business development appointment to nurture new customer relationships as it continues to push into the lending and debt management sectors.

Paul Nicholson has joined Midlands-based technology company as Senior Solutions Consultant and is now developing a sales strategy, which will deliver the company’s ambitious plans for growth.

Acronis hosted +100 guests at Silverstone racing weekend, a mix of customers, partners and media, with the help of its two Formula One partners; Rokit Williams and Sport Pesa Racing Point. During the three days of the event, Acronis presented on the risk of not having the right cyber protection and the increase in cyber-attacks. For instance, for Rokit Williams, Acronis protects no less than 650 engineering workstations, over 1,000 Microsoft Office 365 mailboxes and 100s of TB of data.

Opengear a leading provider of solutions that deliver secure, resilient network access and automation to critical IT infrastructure, solutions that deliver secure, resilient network access and automation to critical IT Infrastructure, has appointed Alan Kinsey as its Regional Sales Manager for UK and Ireland as part of an EMEA-wide drive to accelerate growth and expansion.

With Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) today launching contactless payments on Manchester’s Metrolink tram network, new research commissioned by Visa looking into travellers experiences using public transport, reveals half (49%) of UK commuters view the introduction of contactless payments as the single most significant improvement to their overall public transport experience.

trueDigital Holdings LLC, a global provider of financial technologies and products for traditional and digital asset markets, has reached an agreement in principle to acquire, subject to CFTC approval, the Designated Contract Market (DCM) and Swaps Execution Facility (SEF) registrations held by trueEX LLC.

Wealth management fintech firm, JHC Systems (JHC), and Dutch based Ortec Finance have announced today that they will be partnering to provide OPAL, a leading software solution for global financial institutions offering goal-based financial planning models, as a component to JHC’s market leading Digital Wealth Platform.

Broadway Technology, a leading provider of high-performance fixed income and foreign exchange solutions, announced today it has been named Best Trading Technology Vendor and Best eFX Software Provider by FX Week in the 16th annual  e-FX Awards.

BidFX Systems Ltd, a division of TradingScreen (TS), announced the opening of new offices in Italy and Australia in response to their large recent increase in market share in the eFX space.

Based in Milan, BidFX Italy will be headed up by Carlo Scotto. Carlo was more recently at FXALL/Thomson Reuters (now Refinitiv) where he was responsible for sales and business development in Southern Europe. BidFX Australia will be operating out of Sydney headed up by David Catterick. David joins from ITG where he worked in Sales within the APAC region.