Synechron announced the acquisition of Hatstand, a global financial services consultancy and capital markets specialist. This acquisition further builds Synechron’s consulting capabilities for world-leading financial institutions in key areas such as cybersecurity, market data and risk and regulatory compliance.

Mendix, a leading application Platform-as-a-Service (aPaaS) provider, announced it will unveil its vision for driving digital innovation at Mendix World 2016, June 7-8 in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. The future of business applications, Smart Apps enable digital enterprises to put their connected things, devices and algorithms to work. Mendix’s Smart Apps vision and Digital Innovation Platform to support their rapid delivery will be covered extensively in the event’s keynotes, tracks and 24-hour hackathon.

From Web to Mobile to Multi-Channel to Smart Apps

Horizon Software  announced that Haitong International  Securities Group Limited  has gone live with Horizon for its warrants trading desk.

First Bank announces that Rick Sems has been appointed Regional President for the Midwest. Sems is joining First Bank from Reliance Bank, where he served as President and CEO, leading the bank to record profits. He brings a background in strategic planning and a proven record of accomplishment in both a large bank and community banking environment.

Broadridge has broadened its Global Post Trade Management (GPTM) solution, adding exchange-traded derivatives functionality through the acquisition of Dojima LLC.

Fetch Robotics partners with SAP that incorporates SAP Extended Warehouse Management (SAP EWM) application with the Fetch and Freight robots from Fetch Robotics. Fetch Robotics builds robot systems for the logistics industry. Unveiled in May 2015, the Fetch Robotics system is comprised of an autonomous mobile platform (called Freight) and an advanced mobile manipulator (called Fetch). Fetch and Freight use a charging dock for continuous operations, allowing the robots to charge when needed and then continue on with their tasks.

 Reval, provider of a treasury and risk management application and Gold level member of Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN), today announced that its treasury and risk management application is now available in the Oracle Cloud Marketplace.

Let’s cut to the chase. Blockchain is a combination of four existing technologies put together to create something new. These technologies are well-known:

 As regulations require asset owners to provide increasing levels of investment transparency, Northern Trust announced today it has collaborated with Interactive Data (IDC) to enhance its support for fair value level determination for fixed income securities.