In a move which will assist EMV® payment terminal, mobile point of sale (mPOS) and kernel developers to bring their products to market more efficiently, quickly and cost effectively, FIME has today launched its EVAL 4dev cloud-based service.

With the growth of its financial services cloud, SunGard has been recognized as the “Best Data Center Provider” by the readers of Waters magazine in the 2015 Waters Rankings. Voters selected SunGard for its ability to help customers standardize costs associated with facilities, hardware, software, processes and people.

Crowdfunding platform FundedByMe is strengthening its team in Finland with the appointment of Niclas Ahlström as Finland’s Country Manager from 25 August. 

 OpenLink, the global leader in trading and risk management solutions to the energy, commodities, corporate, and financial services industries, today announced that Gaznat has gone live with its Optimization solution for physical asset portfolio optimization.

Based in Vevey, Switzerland, Gaznat is a supplier and transporter of high pressure natural gas to Western Switzerland. Natural gas distributors such as large industrial services around the Lake Geneva area, and private companies count among Gaznat's main clients.

Orc, the global market leader in electronic trading technology for listed derivatives, today announced certified connectivity to Borsa İstanbul. This new high-speed interface enables quoting and trading on Borsa İstanbul for all Orc clients using the Execution Bricks or the Orc Trading Bricks platforms. Since its formation in 2013, Borsa İstanbul brings together all the exchanges operating in the Turkish capital markets under one roof.

 IHSE GmbH has announced that it has been shortlisted in the Content and communication Infrastructure category of the IABM Design & Innovation Awards. The awards will be casting the spotlight on new solutions or products that bring benefit or create new opportunities to the broadcast and media industry.

 IT security professionals are set to be in huge demand for the rest of 2015, according to a newreport¹ from Robert Half Technology. Almost half (47%) of UK CIOs predict that they will appoint additional IT security personnel to their teams this year.  A similar number (45%) say that they will enhance cloud security in 2015,

 Adecco Group, the world’s leading provider of HR solutions, has today announced a 30 percent increase in bid efficiency since deploying enterprise cloud content collaboration platform Huddle. Huddle has enabled Adecco to shorten timeframes for collecting, sharing and managing the information and resources needed to prepare high quality bids by 30 percent — and close more sales opportunities.

The latest Serious Fraud Office annual report highlights a rise in fraud investigations and prosecutions which is perhaps no great surprise. But what does it mean for alternative finance and are there specific areas the sector should keeping an eye on?