Ahead of the upcoming TradeTech US Fixed Income Leaders’ Summit, WBR Insights, the research division of Worldwide Business Research, surveyed 100 North American Fixed Income professionals, from traders and portfolio managers to CIOs. Among the priorities listed, was the need for new Fixed Income technology, cited by 63% of participants.

SimCorp, a leading provider of investment management solutions and services to the global financial services industry, today announces the findings of a newly commissioned WBR market survey, ’Fixed Income 2018: Goals and Challenges for the Front Office’. The report reveals 66% of Fixed Income professionals are seeking to reduce high operating costs, which impact profitability of the Fixed Income desk, as their number one priority for 2018.

Wolters Kluwer has hired Dan Carnevale to further strengthen its Finance, Risk & Reporting business in Canada.

Carnevale, based in Toronto, joins the company as Country Manager, with a remit to ensure customers experience value from products and services, aligning Professional Services and Product Management resources.

Palette Software, a leading provider of accounts payable automation and purchase to payment software, has announced the launch of PaletteOnline, a new cloud solution that enables customers to access an end-to-end P2P solution via the cloud, guaranteeing optimal functionality, security and scalability.

With PaletteOnline, users gain access to the entire product range included in PaletteArena suite, that enables companies and organizations save time and costs by automating their management of purchases and invoices, utilizing a software-as-a-service delivery model.

Bamboo Capital Partners (“Bamboo”), the pioneering private equity firm delivering positive social and financial value, today announces that it has exited its investment from Mibanco, Latin America’s largest microfinance bank by asset size, through a divestiture to Credicorp Ltd. 

YUKKA Lab, the FinTech startup for Augmented Language Intelligence and context-based sentiment analysis for the financial industry, launches their News & Trend Lab. The News & Trend Lab is a web based application that offers an organized and efficient real-time overview of topics and trends in financial news. 

Maybank expects the number of its online banking transactions to increase to 6.4 billion in 2018, aided by the new and reimagined Maybank2u website which will be launched to the public on 19th April.

Rival Systems (Rival), an award-winning provider of trading and risk management software, today announced the availability of Value-at-Risk (VaR) within its Rival Risk platform. By enabling users to calculate VaR, Rival adds yet another enhancement to its long list of risk features, creating one of the most comprehensive, all-in-one tools in the risk management space.

Calling for Industry Support of Online Shopping Technology Standards Vision to Move to Token-Only Storage of Payment Details

Today, we take for granted how easy and convenient it is to use a card to pay for things in any of the 50 million stores that accept Mastercard across the world. We walk to the counter and understand exactly how our card or device will interact with it.