Calastone, the global funds transaction network, today announces that Investec Wealth & Investment, one of the UK’s largest private client wealth management firms, has gone live with Calastone’s recently launched Transfer Service.  

SmartStream, the financial Transaction Lifecycle Management (TLM^®) specialist, today announce over 20 major financial institutions are using their Centre of Excellence (CoE)utilities. The CoE has two distinct services: a Managed Service Utility and a Central On-Boarding Utility (COU) – each aid in the processing of reconciliations, making it faster, more cost-effective and for many firms, lowering the cost of implementation by as much as 65 percent.

The Banking Industry Architecture Network (BIAN) today welcomes five new members to its rapidly growing network – taking the not-for-profit to a total of 63 leading banks, software vendors, service providers and academic partners across the world.

 Atom, the UK’s first digital bank, is delighted and excited to announce its strategic partnership with BBVA. BBVA has agreed to invest £45m for a 29.5% stake in Atom and bring their global expertise in digital and mobile banking to the launch and growth of Atom.

 Xero (@Xero), the global leader in cloud accounting software for small businesses, has released Xero for Apple [®] Watch.

Gemalto (Euronext NL0000400653 GTO), the world leader in digital security, has managed a comprehensive modernization of Guinea's voter register on behalf of CENI, the National Independent Electoral Commission in the country.

 The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the premier post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, announces the launch of its Data as a Service (DaaS) offering, the latest solution available through its centralized and dynamic data provisioning service.

BCS Global Markets (BCS), the international arm of BCS Financial Group, the largest broker of securities on the Moscow exchange, has appointed Bradley Duke and Alex Romer-Lee as Non-Executive Directors.

As part of their role as members of the BCS UK board, both Alex and Bradley will provide additional oversight and constructively challenge and help develop Company strategy.

As Middle Eastern economies continue their rapid development, investors increasingly need access to high quality content and data about markets in the region.  Responding to this trend, Thomson Reuters has fully integrated Zawya Financial Products into Eikon, its flagship desktop for financial services professionals.