• Unified Goldmoney service features a simplified user experience and operates under three divisions of the Goldmoney brand: Personal, Business, and Wealth.

It’s August – the quietest month in business.  Everyone I email sends back an out of office autoreply, and yet I’m here still blogging.  So what to blog about?  Well, this month might be a little inconsistent, but I do love posting funny stories in bank branches.  The reason is (a) they’re funny and (b) it reminds you why we have bank branches.  So here’s some of the best from [the customer is] 

Scottrade, Inc., a leading financial services firm, today released a powerful social media intelligence platform for its trading clients on the ScottradeELITE platform.

Meed, the Santa Monica-based company committed to bringing socially-conscious innovation to the financial sector, today announced that Rocío Cavazos had joined Meed to head up its operations across Latin America. Ms. Cavazos had previously been Head of Credit at Deutsche Bank’s Global Social Finance group, overseeing investments in enterprises serving the base of the socio-economic pyramid in the financial services, energy and health sectors.

The merger of SWACHA and EastPay, announced on June 28, has been formally approved by their respective Boards of Directors. The merger of the two Regional Payments Associations (RPAs), effective August 1, 2016, was also approved by the SWACHA membership, as required by SWACHA’s bylaws. The new association, ePayResources™, is the second-largest RPA member of NACHA – The Electronic Payments Association.

FlexTrade Systems, a global leader in multi-asset execution management systems, is pleased to announce that it has recently opened an office in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

Frankfurt is the heart of the German financial sector and is right at the centre of Europe. Based in the same building as the Frankfurt stock exchange, FlexTrade’s German office has been opened in order to offer local sales and service to the company’s growing German-speaking client base.

Unit4, a fast growing leader in enterprise applications for service-centric organizations, today announced that PATH has selected Unit4 Business World On! to replace its legacy Microsoft Dynamics Solomon ERP. PATH joins NetHope members Ipas, Trocaire, Heifer International, Norwegian Refugee Council, Save the Children and The Nature Conservancy as a Unit4 Business World customer.