This week is International Fraud Awareness Week, an initiative designed to highlight the impact fraud has on society and boost awareness and understanding of how to spot and prevent fraudsters. And with fraud on the rise, it’s never been more relevant.

Demonstrating its commitment to deliver a comprehensive suite of solutions to assist the financial services industry in complying with impending January 3, 2018, MiFID II reference-data requirements, Thomson Reuters has enhanced its reference-data capabilities, available on its integrated data and analytics delivery platform, DataScope. 

Ingenico Group, the global leader in seamless payment, today announced the closing of Bambora’s acquisition, after obtaining approval from the relevant regulatory and antitrust authorities.

Volante Technologies Inc., a global provider of software for the integration, processing and orchestration of payments and financial messages on premise or as a cloud service, today announced its partnership with Open Vector, an advisory firm specialising in providing open banking consultancy services.

The partnership between Open Vector and Volante Technologies creates an end-to-end service for the global banking industry looking to adopt open banking policies and structures.

• 54% of professionals in large financial institutions state that there are inefficiencies in their current Know Your Customer (KYC) and Sanctions alert remediation processes
• Over two-thirds (70%) of those with less efficient processes cited missing out on business due to customers being flagged erroneously as a financial crime risk

AccessData Group, a leading provider of integrated digital forensics and e-discovery software, today announced the launch of AD RTK(TM) (Risk Toolkit), a powerful new tool corporations and government agencies can use to combat problematic or sensitive data.

Today, at Smart City Expo in Barcelona (Spain), Libelium presents for the first time a cloud software service to enhance its wireless sensor platform with intelligence based solutions.

Datameer, the leading big data preparation and exploration platform, today announced a new product offering architected specifically for the cloud that is integrated with, and delivered on, Amazon Web Services (AWS). With this new offering, Datameer on AWS will empower users with the agility, flexibility and elasticity they need to process their big data in the cloud.

Integral, the trusted financial technology partner to foreign exchange participants, today announced the appointment of Vikas Srivastava as Chief Revenue Officer with responsibility for growing company revenues across all client segments including banks, brokers, and asset managers.

In this newly created role, Vikas will manage sales, business development and solutions to ensure that Integral continues its singular focus of helping its customers outperform their competition in foreign exchange markets.