Nordea has joined the we.trade consortium as founding partner. The consortium is, in conjunction with IBM, developing a platform based on distributed ledger technology (DLT) that aims at making domestic and cross-border commerce easier, safer and more efficient for companies. It is the first such blockchain-based trade finance platform, marking a milestone in the practical adoption of DLT in the financial industry.

Purpose Software, the UK’s leading supplier of business management software to the managed services and print reseller industry, has announced the immediate availability of a new dashboard option for its CBS and 2serv service management solutions.  This new capability will help resellers to improve individual, team and organisational performance whilst enhancing decision-making across the business.

Trustly, the European payments company, is pleased to announce that it has been nominated for the highly distinguished DI Gasell award for the third consecutive year.

The DI Gasell award was established in 2000 by the Swedish financial daily newspaper Dagens Industrito recognise Sweden’s fastest growing and most profitable companies. 

The Nordic IT services and software company Tieto is contributing to the market introduction of Facebook’s open source initiative, Open/R. The goal of Open/R is to become the foundation for an ecosystem of open source solutions to enable next generation network services and architectures that would pave the roads towards digitalization. 

As businesses are becoming more and more digital and consumers’ usage of rich digital content is accelerating, the complexity of the underlying communication network is increasing as the flow of information grows.

Research from Proofpoint, Inc.

Gold trading among existing private investors rebounded as bullion prices steadied in November, but new interest from first-time buyers sank to its lowest since the metal's bear-market price lows of 2015.

That pulled the Gold Investor Index lower to 53.9 from October's reading of 54.6 according to new data today from BullionVault, the world's largest online marketplace for physical precious metals.

Openlink, the global leader in trading, treasury and risk management solutions for the energy, commodities, corporate and financial services industries, has announced a deal with the international energy company, Uniper based in Germany, to move its extensive energy trading and risk management (ETRM) systems into the Cloud. This marks the first fully public Cloud ETRM implementation for a company of Uniper’s size and prestige. 

Synechron, Inc, the global financial services consulting and technology services provider, has today announced that Charles Bokman has joined the company as the new Head of the Asia Pacific (APAC) region. Bokman brings almost 20 years of project management, systems integration and outsourcing advisory experience in the financial services sector. He is based in Singapore and will report to Synechron’s CEO, Faisal Husain.

LexisNexis® Risk Solutions, the global information solution provider, has retained the Best Financial Crime Intelligence and Research Data award for a fourth consecutive year at the Compliance Register Platinum Awards 2017. The firm also secured the Best Regtech Solution in Financial Crime & Sanctions Compliance, to make it a double win.