The arrival of Nxchange makes it possible to place and trade securities on a regulated platform without the intervention of a bank or broker being required. Companies can activate their network and communities to raise capital both on the central trading platform of Nxchange and using an integrated module on their own websites. A traditional IPO is usually an expensive and complex matter.

Elixium, a new EU-regulated Multilateral Trading Facility (MTF) for collateral and secured deposits, has announced it will launch in May 2016. 

Elixium has been developed to address the growing need for a transparent, open to all, peer-to-peer, regulated marketplace. It seeks to address the growing liquidity concerns that have emerged as a result of changes in regulation and the subsequent composition and availability of balance sheets. 

ACI Worldwide  announced that The Co-operative Group (Co-op), one of the UK’s largest food retailers, has selected the company to run its card payments processing operations and maximise card data security across all of its UK food stores and fuel sites. The retailer, with over 2,800 stores, will utiliseACI’s UP Merchant Payments solution to secure its payment data with the latest version of its point-to-point encryption (P2PE) and tokenisationcapabilities.

Analytic software firm FICO today announced that its groundbreaking AI-based Cyber Analytics will be available as part of the iboss node-based, direct-to-cloud, containerised platform, a leading solution for cybersecurity and malware protection. FICO’s Cyber Analytics models will improve detection of attacks, including new or “zero-day” attacks. The announcement was made during the FICO^® World 2016 conference in Washington, DC.

JPX, one of the world’s largest financial marketplaces, has chosen Cinnober for risk monitoring across the entire Japanese market of equities, bonds, futures, options, CDS and IRS. This follows an announcement earlier this year where JPX selected Cinnober for the clearing of the exchange’s listed derivatives market.

Computershare and SETL have today demonstrated Australia’s first working blockchain solution at Computershare’s annual Investor and Analyst day.

The two companies are also pleased to announce a joint initiative to establish securities ownership registers using blockchain technology.

ACI Universal Online Banker is a digital banking platform that delivers financial institutions global multilingual and multi-currency cash management solutions. The strength of ACI Universal Online Banker lies in its powerful features built within a user interface designed especially for ease of use and a technology platform with easy integration, flexibility and scalability.

Visa celebrated the 100 day milestone to the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. In its 30th year as the exclusive payment provider of the Olympic Games, Visa is creating and managing the entire payment system infrastructure and network throughout all venues including stadiums, press centers, point-of-sale (POS), the Olympic Village and Olympic Superstores. This year Visa will implement 4,000 POS terminals across key Olympic venues, as well as 11 ATMs in partnership with Bradesco.

Analytics software firm FICO (NYSE:FICO) today introduced the FICO^® Decision Management Suite 2.0, at FICO^® World 2016 in Washington, DC. The expanded, cloud-based suite of analytic tools and applications represents a major leap forward in the practice of prescriptive analytics and decision management, providing everything businesses of all sizes need to rapidly develop innovative analytic applications and improve business decision agility.