ACI Worldwide, a leading global provider of real-time electronic payment and banking solutions, today announced a collaboration with UK banking pioneer Raphaels Bank, opening up access to the Faster Payments Scheme in the UK for a significant number of financial institutions, including challenger banks and payment service providers (PSPs).

SmartStream, the financial Transaction Lifecycle Management (TLM^®) specialist, today announced that its product Corona, the first solution ever to comply with the SWIFT Certified Application - Electronic Trade Confirmation (ETC) criteria, has again been awarded with the label.

Volante Technologies Inc., a global leader in the provision of software for the integration, processing and orchestration of financial messages and payments, working in collaboration with Ripple, today announced it has created a solution specifically designed to accelerate the process of integrating with Ripple, the global provider of distributed financial technology solutions offering real-time settlement of cross border payments.

 TradingScreen Inc., the leading independent provider of liquidity, trading and investment technology via SaaS, and Quantitative Brokers (“QB”), a leading provider of clearer and dealer-neutral agency algorithms for fixed income and futures markets, have partnered to provide QB’s best execution algorithms through the TradingScreen electronic trading platform. This suite includes the Bolt and Strobe algorithms for outright and listed spread execution, as well the Legger algorithm for customizable intra/inter-exchange, multi-leg order type execution.​
 

Splitit, an interest-free installment payments technology, announced today the launch of its Shopify plugin, available to all merchants on Shopify’s App store. Merchants using Shopify will now be able to seamlessly integrate Splitit’s payment tool into their checkout process, allowing customers to instantly split purchases into interest-free monthly payments on their existing Visa and MasterCard credit cards.

Expertus and Ripple, today announced that they have launched a Pilot Program for Financial Institutions that want to test the capabilities of blockchain and Ripple distributed financial technology.

The Pilot Program offers financial institutions a lean way to test blockchain technology with minimal business process disruption and integration effort. The solution can be integrated into the bank’s existing payments infrastructure without the need for any changes.