Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the global interconnection and data center company, today announced the opening of its latest International Business ExchangeTM (IBX®) data center in Sydney, known as SY4.

Walgreens Balance® Rewards members can now seamlessly apply their loyalty account at checkout through Android Pay, furthering the convenience of earning and redeeming points and expanding the company’s portfolio of unified mobile payments solutions. This latest integration gives the more than 85 million active Balance Rewards members, many of whom use Android devices, another easy, secure and private way to earn and use loyalty points in-store, and eliminates the need to separately scan or enter their Balance Rewards card.

Bats Europe (Bats), the region’s largest stock exchange operator, has made available for testing on its platform its MiFID II compliant process for order record keeping, which the exchange is proposing as the industry approach to encourage harmonisation. Bats is also making available a range of enhancements to facilitate further user testing of their algorithms.

Your Community Bankshares, Inc., the holding company for Your Community Bank, announced today that YCB shareholders voted to approve the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated May 3, 2016, between WesBanco, Inc. (WesBanco) and YCB. 98.75 percent of votes cast at a special meeting of YCB shareholders voted in favor of the merger, representing 69.97 percent of all outstanding YCB shares as of the record date.

Risk Focus Inc., the leading provider of control and compliance for regulatory trade and transaction reporting to the global capital markets, today announced the appointment of Elena Gaetini as European Head of Business Development & Governmental Affairs, extending the company’s reach in Continental Europe.

In Trade Finance there’s a lot of activity.  As mentioned yesterday, you have HSBC and Bank of America working with HyperLedger; R3 trialling with 15 banks based upon Corda; Ripple working with Standard Chartered and DBS; and JPMorgan have been developing a trade finance trial with Digital Asset.

Eight leading financial technology (fintech) companies today begin a 12-week mentorship program in the third annual FinTech Innovation Lab Asia-Pacific.

ADAM Software, a leading Digital Asset Management (DAM) and Product Content Management (PCM )software provider, today announced that it has been identified as a leader by Forrester Research, Inc.