CloudMargin, creator of the world’s first and only collateral and margin management solution native to the cloud, has been named Collateral Platform Provider of the Year in the Custody Risk Global Awards 2018. The awards ceremony took place last night in London following decisions by a judging panel of industry experts assembled by Custody Risk.

Mobey Day, the annual flagship event of global industry association Mobey Forum, is this year titled ‘The Next Challenge: Engagement’. It will explore the various elements required to effectively engage consumers through digital services, with delegates learning from the success stories of industry leaders such as Alipay and Klarna. 

Kaleido, a ConsenSys company, in collaboration with Amazon Web Services, is helping enterprises break through the proof-of-concept stage to live production blockchain networks with the announcement of its next major step forward. The newly launched Kaleido Marketplace extends its Blockchain Business Cloud to become the first full-stack enterprise platform available today. The new marketplace includes trusted tools and services from Kaleido, AWS, and members of the new partnership program, all offered as plug-and-play.

UEFA and Alipay, the world’s leading payment and lifestyle platform, operated by Ant Financial Services Group, are proud to announce a new eight-year global partnership for all UEFA national team football competitions from 2018 to 2026. 

Alipay, with over 700 million active users in China, becomes the Official Global Payment Partner, Official Global Digital Wallet and the Official Global FinTech Partner, for all men’s national team events, including UEFA EURO 2020 and UEFA EURO 2024.

The alternative investment specialist Aquila Capital has agreed with EDP, Portugal’s biggest energy company, to acquire a portfolio of 21 operational small-scale hydropower plants located in Northern and Central Portugal with a total capacity of approximately 100 MW. The investment marks Aquila Capital’s first step into Portugal’s hydropower market. 

United Overseas Bank (UOB) today announced that its advanced data enrichment and categorisation capability will help UOB Digital Bank customers keep track in real time of their savings and expenses more easily and clearly.

Meniga, a global leader in digital banking solutions, will be the engine running this capability for the Bank.

The BS/2, a part of Penki Kontinentai Group, sold 111 ATMs with an integrated security and monitoring solution ATMeye.iQ to the Bank CenterCredit. The integration and maintenance of equipment has been entrusted to a subsidiary BS/2 Kazakhstan. 

Across areas of enterprise technology investment, 19 percent of spending goes to cloud-related services currently. According to Gartner, that will rise to 28 percent by 2022, with prominent growth in enterprise IT spending on cloud-based offerings. In the second quarter of 2018 alone, businesses spent over £15 bn on cloud computing infrastructure. 

Abacus Group, a leading provider of hosted IT solutions and application hosting for alternative investment firms, today announced it has completed the acquisition of Hedgepoint Solutions, a boutique IT consulting firm based in New York City.