Compass Plus, an international provider of retail banking and electronic payments software to processors and financial institutions, has announced the successful completion of stress testing its open development payment platform, TranzAxis, on Oracle Exadata Database Machine.

Misys, provider of the broadest portfolio of lending, treasury, trading and risk management solutions available on the market, is helping to transform the global financial services industry by making financial institutions more resilient, more efficient and more competitive. Misys solutions are used by some of the world's leading global financial institutions, including 48 of the world's 50 largest banks.

TotalBank announced the launch of TotalFlex, a new proprietary residential loan offering designed especially for South Florida borrowers with complex income structures, such as attorneys, physicians and business owners.

TotalFlex can be used for both purchases and refinances, providing the ability to address the evolving needs of local borrowers. TotalBank’s management team developed this program drawing on in-depth local market knowledge and expertise.

BCA Research, the leading provider of independent investment research, today announced the expansion of the firm’s Equity Trading Strategy (ETS) to cover equity markets in the MSCI World Index. ETS is an equity analysis platform that ranks companies by analyzing a proprietary mix of macro, fundamental and market data to explain stock price performance and identify mispriced assets.

Nasdaq and SIX Swiss Exchange announced the extension of their current technology contract, which includes X-stream INET Trading technology for all SIX markets, including equities, ETFs, structured products, funds and fixed income, as well as SMARTS Market Surveillance and Nasdaq Pre-Trade Risk Management. In addition, the new SIX Swiss Exchange At Midpoint (SwissAtMid) dark pool was launched on Nasdaq trading and surveillance technology earlier this month. The two companies have been partners for more than 10 years.

 Object Trading, a provider of multi-asset trading infrastructure, announced today that it has been fully approved by BM&FBOVESPA in Sao Paulo, as a conformed ISV to handle market data, order entry and pre-trade risk constraints via its Direct Market Access (DMA) Platform for its clients and partners. BM&FBOVESPA’s recent requirements for direct connections, in lieu of order routing partnerships, takes effect today.

Simplicity and flexibility.

In the many conversations our teams have with corporate treasurers working in multinational organisations around the world, these are the two words we find constantly repeated.

This is hardly a surprise. It does, however, beg the question as to why this is still such an issue in the world of B2B payments and what needs to be done to simplify it.

A simple answer