Tennis champion Andy Murray announced today that he has entered a long-term partnership arrangement with Seedrs, the London-based equity crowdfunding platform.

The arrangement will see Andy joining the Seedrs Advisory Board to provide advice to the firm with respect to businesses working in the health, sport and wearable technology spaces. Andy will not be offering advice to individual investors or recommending specific campaigns.

 A study conducted by SunGard reveals that one out of three energy traders demand advanced analytics, business intelligence and overall more responsive and integrated energy/commodity trading and risk management systems (E/CTRM) in order to adapt and thrive in today’s “perfect storm” in energy and commodities.

 Zero2Ten, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Edgewater Technology (Nasdaq:EDGW) and part of Edgewater Fullscope, has been named a finalist for the 2015 Microsoft Dynamics Cloud Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Partner of the Year Award. The company was honored among a global field of top Microsoft partners for demonstrating excellence in innovation and implementation of customer solutions based on Microsoft technology.

Calypso Technology, Inc., the standard for treasury and capital markets software, has appointed Mehdi Miri as Senior Vice President, Professional Services. In his new role, Miri will oversee the strategic direction of product implementation for Calypso's clients, as well as process improvement and new service offerings.

Compass Plus, an international provider of retail banking and electronic payments software to processors and financial institutions, has revealed the results of their recent research shows industry professionals believe mobile payments, NFC and contactless technology will reach mass adoption within five years despite previous results indicating they should already be mainstream.

Move enables banks to grasp the US$2 trillion Islamic banking market opportunity through new lower cost cloud access to Temenos’ long-established T24 Islamic banking solution.

Temenos (SIX: TEMN), the market leading provider of mission-critical solutions to the financial services industry, today announces that its specialist T24 Islamic core-banking solution is now available as a cloud-based service, ‘T24 Cloud Islamic’, delivering access to enterprise-level IT at an affordable price, while no compromise is made with regard to compliance with Islamic law.

NCR Corporation (NYSE: NCR), the global leader in consumer transaction technologies, today announced the opening of a new Services Operation Centre in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

EXUS, the leading financial software vendor, has successfully delivered to Bahrain Islamic Bank, an upgrade of its Collection & Recovery platform, with the aim to fulfil the bank’s need to adapt its operating model regarding NPLs in the context of a rapidly changing environment.

Overwhelmingly rapid change has become the new normal in regulatory compliance worldwide, including India. Form, content, format and calculation are being constantly changed by regulators to drive a stable financial ecosystem. Post the 2008 global crisis, regulators across the world have begun switching to Risk-based Supervision (RBS) to ensure banks do not take undue risks to maximise profits and boost performance. Meanwhile the RBI is phasing out its CAMELS-based inspection and is ushering in a new Risk-based Supervision environment to manage the banking system more closely.

How well a company manages its supply chain is reflected now more than ever in the health of its balance sheet. Today’s supply chains are complex and global. They are made up of networks of trading partners, often spread across the globe and are dependent on the efficient exchange of information for the smooth flow of goods.