ISGN Corporation™, a leading provider of award-winning technology solutions to the U.S. mortgage industry, today announced it has hired two mortgage industry experts, naming Destinee Pratt as senior vice president of Servicing Technologies and Chris Anderson as executive vice president of Sales.

FIS announced the completion of one of the industry’s most unique transformational projects with Bank Leumi USA.

BTIG, LLC, a global financial services firm specializing in institutional trading, investment banking, research and related brokerage services, announced today that Andre Suaid has joined the firm as a Managing Director within its International Equities

Western Union Business Solutions, a business segment of The Western Union Company and a leader in global payment services, today announces enhanced capabilities to its WU® EDGE digital trading platform, including expansion of the platform’s fee-free* network, and availability into seven new markets: Hong Kong, Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Poland and the Czech Republic.

Fiduciary Trust Company, a private wealth advisor and investment management firm for high-net-worth families, individuals and non-profits, announced today that Peter Andersen has joined as Chief Investment Officer (CIO).

Andersen joins Fiduciary Trust from Congress Wealth Management, where he has served as Chief Investment Officer since 2003. He was also a portfolio manager with Congress Asset Management, an affiliated firm. Prior to Congress, Andersen held senior roles at Delaware Investments/Conseco Capital Management and Colonial Management.

Vermilion Software, the leading supplier of client reporting and communications software, today announces its victory at the Waters Rankings 2016. The honor, for ‘Best Reporting System Provider’, was received on July 14 at Manhattan’s Metropolitan Club.

Vermilion sells primarily to asset managers, wealth managers, hedge funds and asset servicing firms. The software firm has over 60 successful implementations on four continents under its belt.

DueCourse, the rapidly expanding invoice financing service for SMEs, is now available to users of leading online accountancy packages SageOne and Xero. After a rigorous selection process, the service is now available to use with all online accountancy packages in the UK, a total of half a million businesses, cementing DueCourse’s position as a leading SME finance provider.

KBW, a Stifel company, and Nasdaq  announced the launch of the KBW Nasdaq Financial Technology Index (Ticker: KFTX), a preeminent index designed to precisely track the performance of those companies that leverage technology to deliver financial products and services. Their distribution is nearly exclusively electronic, with limited or no “bricks and mortar,” and their revenue mix is predominantly fee-based. These firms leverage new assets such as advanced data aggregation and analysis, innovative technology, and creative thinking.

With the DOL fiduciary rule taking shape and many companies creating action plans to implement the anticipated impact, Advicent is building a DOL Education Center in Advisor Briefcase, a powerful marketing communications tool, which will be released to users in the near future.

Mobile penetration in Brazil is high, with an average of more than one phone per capita. From the Copacabana beach to the Amazon basin, over half (53.7 per cent) of Brazilians are now accessing the internet and by 2017, it is estimated that almost all of these internet users will access the internet with a mobile device. It is therefore vital that merchants keep mobile payments in mind to fully capitalise on the future potential in the market.