Islamic banking leaders and dignitaries from across Africa and the Middle East gathered today at the 2nd annual International Forum on Islamic Finance (IFIF 2016).

 ​Xero, (@Xero) today unveiled strategic partnerships and integrations with Barclays and Microsoft in front of 1,300 accountants and partners at Xerocon*,  UK's largest fintech conference, giving small businesses and their accountants easier access to the services and funds they need to manage and grow their business.

 Fiserv, Inc., announces that Tandem Bank has selected Agiliti™ from Fiserv as its technology platform. Tandem Bank selected Agiliti to bring a new banking experience to market due to the solution’s comprehensive service set, ease of implementation and the proven experience of Fiserv. Agiliti is a hosted, software-as-a-service (SaaS) retail bank technology solution, modular in its approach, offering a comprehensive software and infrastructure.

Discover the key challenges, opportunities and industry trends related to equity trading and technology in Europe…

Regulatory change is shaking up the European equity market. Participants are on the lookout for how to best ensure limited impact on their business. Concerns around research payments, best execution, and sourcing liquidity, amongst others, are bringing to light issues around broker relationships and what truly adds value to current partnerships.

SimCorp, a leading provider of investment management solutions and services for the global financial services industry, announces that Vescore AG, a Swiss asset manager with USD 14bn in assets under management, has successfully completed the implementation of SimCorp Dimension.

The predecessor company of today's Vescore AG made the decision to enhance its institutional client business in the summer of 2014 and selected SimCorp Dimension to support this strategy. The company has gone live with the new system on time and on budget.

Aegon has partnered with Intelliflo to deliver seamless two-way integration between Intelliflo’s award winning business management system, Intelligent Office, and Aegon’s One Retirement and Aegon Retirement Choices platforms.

Available from February 2016 the integration will speed up processes and deliver transaction efficiencies for advisers. Using a single sign on advisers selecting Aegon will seamlessly access:

• account creation (as part of a quote or apply journey)

Today’s banker-bashing culture may be in transition, depending on whether the reforms put in place by government, regulators and the Bank of England will be able to change the public’s opinion of banks. Whatever the impact of these new rules, their main purpose is to prevent another cataclysm, not to repair the relationship between banks and their customers.

The European Central Bank has selected SIA, in partnership with Colt, for its connection to TARGET2-Securities (T2S), the new centralised European platform for the settlement of domestic and cross-border securities transactions.

The European Central Bank is expected to migrate to SIA and Colt’s value-added network infrastructure in June 2016. The two companies will also provide the ECB with a message processing solution based on INTERCOPE’s BOX Messaging Hub, facilitating the integration of ECB’s application software to the TARGET2-Securities central platform.

Horizon Software, has been shortlisted for Best Trading System for the prestigious FStech Awards 2016. Winners will be announced during a ceremony held on March 17th at the London Mariott Hotel.

The 11th Annual World Takaful Conference (WTC 2016) will be held on the 11th and 12th of April 2016 at the Dusit Thani in partnership with the leading takaful companies from from the GCC, Southeast Asia, Africa and Europe. The Forum is set to gather more than 250 Takaful professionals from around the world comprising of policy makers, dignitaries, central bank representatives, heads of insurance supervision, CEOs of the largest Takaful companies, thought leaders and experts in research, bankers, academia and Shariah scholars.