Swedbank, the largest retail bank in Sweden and one of Europe’s largest payment acquiring networks, has implemented Cryptomathic’s Key Management System (CKMS), to securely manage keys across its card payment acquirer network and its payment terminal management system.

CKMS provides Swedbank with a secure, fully compliant and scalable platform for the centralised and automated lifecycle management of keys across its own card issuing and authorisation systems, in addition to thousands of keys for more than fifty partner banks in their card payment acquirer network.

Seventy-six percent of respondents to a recent Reval survey of more than 150 financial professionals say they are not calculating their daily cash positions automatically, leaving real-time cash visibility an elusive goal.

 Misys, the leading financial software company, today announced that HBL, the largest domestic multinational bank in Pakistan, has adopted Misys FusionBanking Corporate Channels to enhance its corporate banking business. HBL went live with the platform in four months, which brings together trade services, cash management and supply chain finance on a single, digital solution.

Thomson Reuters has expanded the commodities supply chain insight on its financial markets desktop Thomson Reuters Eikon to include the physical movement of agricultural commodities and liquefied natural gas (LNG). The new enhancements to Commodity Trade Flows offer innovative analysis of the global movement of cargoes, giving commodity analysts greater transparency into the supply and demand dynamics of key commodities and, therefore, a better understanding of potential price movements.

Nasdaq Commodities is pleased to announce the launch of German Wind Index Futures contracts. The contracts will use the Renewable Wind Index for Germany, the NAREX-WIDE, as underlying.

Fenergo, the leading provider of Client Lifecycle Management software solutions for investment, corporate and private banks, has today launched Fenergo Data Integration Manager to enhance the Client Lifecycle Management process for financial institutions.

A rules-driven data interface solution, Fenergo Data Integration Manager consumes, processes and routes client and counterparty data from multiple sources and systems, delivering high quality and streamlined data ready to support and evidence regulatory client lifecycle and reporting processes.

Equens is expanding its product portfolio to include an end-to-end pan-European instant payment service. With its ability to support banks along the full payments value chain, from initiating the payment to the banks’ internal payment processing up to the interbank clearing and settlement process, Equens is unique in the market. The delivery to the market of the first components is scheduled for Q2 2016.

Financial IT speaks to Per Trifunovic, Global Head of Financial Messaging, D+H (formerly Fundtech) at Sibos 2015.

Financial IT speaks to Vince O'Brien at Sibos 2015.

Another day, another robo-advice headline. It’s a human truth: we love to dissect a new trend and debate its merits. Internet communication amplifies this and we risk developing a distorted view of priorities; in particular, how to fill the growing mass-market advice gap.

Here’s some context: type in robo-advice and Google returns over 900K entries. That’s nearly 300K more than the Sunset Clause, 400K more than MiFID II and over 500K more than the Financial Market Advice Review (FAMR).