Fidessa group plc (LSE: FDSA) today announced that it has integrated Hanweck Associate’s VoleraFEED™ into its award-winning sell-side equities trading platform to provide users with access to high-performance options analytics. VoleraFEED is recognized as the industry’s leading options analytics service.

BPC Banking Technologies, a world leading provider of payment solutions, announces the launch of its end-to-end SmartVista suite in Nepal Electronic Payment Systems Limited (NEPS). BPC’s solutions were selected to replace the legacy payment systems of every member bank, as well as to process member banks transactions, deliver a single payments infrastructure providing everything from switching, processing, ATM management, card issuing and acquiring through to point of sale management.

Today MasterCard launched the global digital wallet MasterPass™ in Sweden – the first Nordic country to do so. Nordea, 

 Ingram Micro Inc. (NYSE: IM) today announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire certain assets from Parallels Holdings Ltd. ("Parallels"), a leading provider of commercial cloud management platform technologies, connectors, billing systems and professional services. Under the terms of the transaction, Ingram Micro will acquire the Parallels Odin Service Automation platform along with associated cloud management technologies, intellectual property and the Odin brand.

 Percona, the company that delivers enterprise-class MySQL(R) and MongoDB(R) solutions and services, today announced a partnership with VividCortex, the first unified suite of performance monitoring tools specifically designed for today's high performance databases.

 Jack Henry & Associates, Inc is a leading provider of technology solutions and payment processing services primarily for the financial services industry.

2015 has been a fantastic year for BIAN, overall we are aiming for all of our members to work together to build and promote a common architectural framework for banking interoperability issues.

Expedient, a provider of information technology cloud infrastructure services, successfully earned an Attestation of Compliance (AOC) for its Report on Compliance (ROC), in support of hosted client credit card data environments. Validation of compliance and publication of this documentation is conducted annually pursuant to the PCI DSS standard.

nCino, the leader in cloud banking, announced today that Augusta, Ga.-based Georgia Bank & Trust has selected its Bank Operating System to advance the bank’s commercial loan workflow and provide transparency across the institution.

As a set of principles, rather than hard and fast requirements, the guidelines of BCBS239 laid down by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision can present substantial challenges to compliance. One of the biggest tasks is working out what to monitor, measure and report on, as well as how to present these findings.