Solactive announces the release of its Solactive eGaming Index. It serves as the underlying of the Evolve E-Gaming Index ETF (“HERO”) and includes companies active in eGaming and eSports, both of which are striving markets with robust performance potentials. Canadian ETF provider Evolve ETFs will be the first company to launch an ETF tracking the index.

Paysend launches a new revolutionary solution for global payments, leveraging the transparency of blockchain technology and a well-established global network. The new stablecoin was built directly on the Stellar network and will provide a consistent store of value that users can hold, or seamlessly trade and transact with in real time. 

National Settlement Depository (NSD), Russian central securities depository, continues to develop services integrated into the global financial system. Raiffeisen Bank International (Vienna) has become the first foreign custodian bank to establish a direct link with the Russian securities market by opening a foreign nominee securities account directly with the Russian CSD. Due to this, the bank can provide its clients with access to a wide range of Russian financial instruments and NSD services.

Wealth managers believe that delivering highly personalized services is essential to achieve a competitive differentiation but a third of are unable to personalized service to the degree they wish, reveals the new report ‘The Next-Generation Wealth Managers: Advancing Services and Personalization with Technology’ from Forbes Insights and Temenos, the banking software company.

The IR Society is delighted to announce that Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BofAML) will be the new sponsor of the senior investor relations development programme, DELIVER (DElivering Leadership in InVEstor Relations).

Financial IT interviews Yinglian Xie, CEO and Co-founder of DataVisor

KAS BANK, the specialist provider of securities services to the UK pension industry, has advanced its cost transparency services with an end-to-end cost transparency solution for DC pension schemes, aiding the delivery of the cost report on the Chair Statement.

KAS BANK’s cost transparency solution for DC schemes comes in answer to regulatory pressure on pension fund trustees to create and publish a Chair Statement that reports on costs and charges and determines value for money for members.

Volante Technologies Inc., a global provider of software to accelerate digital transformation and modernization, today announced that it is providing end-to-end SEPA (Single Euro Payments Area) instant payments processing as an on-demand managed service on Microsoft Azure. Volante’s SEPA Instant Payments as a service will provide all payment service providers (PSPs) certified access to the two principal pan-European schemes, EBA CLEARING’s RT1 and ECB’s TIPS, through the high-speed, secure messaging and low-latency SIAnet network.

The days of “business as usual” are over for financial institutions. Retail banks, insurers, investment firms, and wealth management companies alike are all under pressure to deploy new “anytime- anywhere” digital services. Not surprisingly, according to Ovum’s recent ICT Enterprise Insights, the banking sector recorded high digitization maturity-progression of 42 percent, second only to the telecoms sector at 43.9 percent.

SIA, in partnership with Colt Technology Services, has won a tender commissioned by the European Central Bank for the provisioning of connectivity services allowing European central and commercial banks, central depositories, automated clearing houses and other payment service providers to connect directly to Eurosystem market infrastructures through a single access interface (Eurosystem Single Market Infrastructure Gateway - ESMIG).