Appian (NASDAQ: APPN) today announced that Charities Trust, a leading donations management organisation, is using the Appian Platform to accelerate delivery of transformational solutions for donations and charitable funds management. In support of its mission to “grow by giving,” Charities Trust has introduced new operational and customer service applications that leverage the development speed and enterprise power of Appian’s low-code business process management cloud platform.

Taking blockchain mainstream, Blockchain Live is back and will be returning to London Olympia on 25^th September as a festival of blockchain education. A one-day event, packed with engaging, thought-provoking and quality content, this year Blockchain Live will be moving away from the traditional exhibition model, into a ground-breaking festival of content and collaboration.

To some, it is magic. To insurance, it is reality. The ability to accurately discern the past and predict the future based on nothing but data points and the long-lived experience of actuaries and adjusters has served the industry well up to now, allowing insurance to become the multi-billion-dollar industry it is today. The past few years, however, have witnessed in a dramatic shift to this picture, prompted by the advent of the Internet of Things: technologies that collect, record and transmit live, granular data about their environment.

Penta, the digital platform that redefines business banking for small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs), raised over 8

SmartStream Technologies, the financial Transaction Lifecycle Management (TLM^®) solutions provider, today announced their partnership with Finanz Informatik Solutions Plus GmbH, to help their German clients with implementation projects and application management of SmartStream’s Corona solutions, as well as their next generation TLM Aurora offerings.

FinecoBank has today announced the addition of the Canadian Stock Exchange to its extensive portfolio of stock options.  This means traders and investors can now access to an additional 250 shares and over 600 ETFs available on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) via Fineco’s online trading platform.  The move bolsters Fineco’s existing offer of 26 international stock markets, giving it one of the most comprehensive range of stocks, ETFs and bonds available on any platform.

Mizrahi-Tefahot has chosen Temenos T24 Transact from Temenos (SIX: TEMN), the banking software company, to replace its capital market systems. Temenos is the leader in banking software with more than 3,000 banks in over 150 countries relying on Temenos for their technology needs. 

Temenos T24 Transact will replace the core system currently used by the bank for its activity in Israeli and foreign securities and will interface with trading systems, the bank’s core systems, direct channels, branches and all entities with which the bank operates.

Insurwave, a joint venture between EY and Guardtime, has partnered with Xceptor to facilitate the digitisation and automation of the insurance market. Insurwave is the world’s first marine insurance blockchain platform and the partnership will digitise the wide variety of insurance documents, building out an extensive digital library of insurance documents to enable the automation of downstream processes.

Kantox, a leader in foreign exchange (FX) management solutions, has partnered with Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), the bank of the world’s most innovative companies and their investors, to offer cutting-edge FX management software to SVB’s corporate clients across the United Kingdom.