Heartland Payment Systems (NYSE:HPY), the nation's fifth largest payment processor and a leading provider of merchant business solutions, has  announced that it acquired Leaf, implementator of a mobile Point of Sale (POS) tablet specifically designed for commerce. Leaf’s cost-effective product helps retail stores, restaurants, and other local merchants improve the speed and ease of checkout and offers easy-to-use business management, analytics, and customer engagement.

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Our name tells you where we are - at the intersection of financial services and Information Technology (IT).

Arguably these are the most important global industries. Financial services provides credit (and much else besides) that is essential to the rest of the economy. Without IT, financial companies (i.e. not just banks) are unable to cope with the present, the future or with each other.

Financial IT speaks to Eugene Danilkis, Co-Founder and CEO of MAMBU about the company’s flagship product, SaaS online banking platform that meets the needs of the microfinance community worldwide.

Diebold, Incorporated (NYSE: DBD) is driving an extensive update of the entire automated teller machine (ATM) fleet for Bankia, S.A., one of Spain's top financial institutions, through a comprehensive managed services project.

Cerillion Technologies, a world provider of next generation customer management systems, has announced the completion of its new CRM & Billing solution for Gibtelecom, the major Gibraltar telecommunications provider. Delivered in about a year from project kick-off to system go-live, the turnkey solution is already helping Gibtelecom to improve its operational efficiencies and provide a superior customer experience.

Bravura Solutions Pty Limited (Bravura) today announced that, due to company growth, it has relocated its team in Poland to new, larger premises in Warsaw. The Warsaw office is one of eight global R&D centres of excellence, serving as a development hub for Bravura’s EMEA operations.

Ebury, the fast-growing financial services company that helps businesses to trade and grow internationally, has today announced it is to increase its workforce by over 100 across its three core markets by December 2014, bringing the total number of employees to near 300.