Lloyds Bank has today announced investment into a new real-time cash management and payments platform that will allow it to enhance its payment capabilities, become market leading in its delivery to corporate and institutional clients alongside a Group-wide investment to transform its cross-border payments capability.

The Yobota Platform is a cloud-based operating platform, offering a leaner, faster and cheaper way for our clients to set up and run their financial businesses. Our clients pick the functional components they want, and with consumption-based pricing they pay for exactly what they use, rather than bearing would otherwise be large fixed IT costs. Our platform provides access to the financial services ecosystem, enabling a full, front-to-back operational capability without the need for countless integrations.

EastNets (eastnets.com), a leading provider of compliance, payment and cloud solutions for the financial services industry, will showcase en.SafeWatch PaymentGuard, an advanced real-time fraud detection solution for SWIFT payments. The product will be showcased alongside the company’s numerous anti-money laundering and financial crime and compliance risk (FCCR) solutions, at the 2017 SWIFT International Banking Operations Seminar (Sibos).

IHS Markit (Nasdaq: INFO), a world leader in critical information, analytics and solutions, today announced that Hermes Investment Management has selected its Transaction Cost Analysis (TCA) platform.

Identitii, the secure information sharing company enabling banks to better serve their corporate clients by accelerating transaction approvals, today announced the launch of its Software as a Service (SaaS) offering, now available on the Microsoft Azure cloud.

We are now well into October and market participants are still waiting patiently for ESMA to provide details of instrument data for MiFID II. The industry is keen to consume important data to drive functionality and trading strategies; basics such as which instruments are in scope, which are classed as liquid, what is large in scale and where the equity dark volume caps will fall. The download interface mechanisms also remain a mystery.

Pelican, a global provider of Artificial Intelligence powered payments and financial crime compliance solutions for banks and corporates, today announced the expansion of its North American operations with the appointment of financial services and technology industry expert John Keelan. John joins the team as Senior Sales Manager for the Americas region, reporting to Bill North, Pelican’s Global Head of Sales.

Australian Securities and Frankfurt Stock Exchange cross listed iSignthis Ltd (ASX: ISX / DE: TA8), the global leader in RegTech for identity verification and transactional banking/payments, is pleased to announce that it has completed integration of its services to Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) regulated Tradefinancial (www.tradefinancial.com.au).

Citizens Bank has selected payments technology company Transactis to expand its Treasury Solutions offering with electronic billing and payment solutions.