SAP Ariba  announced that it has again been ranked as a leader in Contract Life-Cycle Management for Buy-Side Contracts by independent research firm Forrester Research, Inc., this time in a new report titled “The Forrester Wave™: Contract Life-Cycle Management, Q3 2016: The 14 CLM Vendors That Matter Most And How They Stack Up,” (The Forrester Wave™: Contract Life-Cycle Management, Q3 2016, Forrester Research, Inc., July 2016).

Building on its long history of offering industry-leading managed account solutions and online planning tools, Fidelity Investments® announced today the national launch of 

CLEARWATER, Clarity Services has developed a groundbreaking new approach to loan reporting that can help lenders prevent a growing industry problem. Clarity’s Temporary Account Record is a patent-pending solution that helps eliminate the lag time that occurs between loan approval and loan reporting.

Apriva, the leading provider of secure end-to-end wireless transaction processing solutions, today announced it has completed EMV certification for Ingenico Group smart terminals to First Data’s Omaha platform. This additional certification expands on Apriva’s existing EMV solutions to offer more choices to reseller partners, the merchants they serve and end users.

FlexTrade Systems (@FlexTrade), a global leader in multi-asset execution and order management systems, today announced the appointment of Shane Remolina as Director of Sell-Side OMS Technologies for North America.

 Niu Solutions, the leading provider of managed IT services, has today announced a series of new appointments in a move that will strengthen its business development efforts and the team’s core digital expertise and skillsets.

The six new appointments in Niu’s business development team include Daniel Acordia, business development director, Floyd Toussaint-Kaye, sales manager, Ricky Webber, sales manager, Ian O’Farrell, sales manager, Jas Jouhal, sales manager, and Jack Livings, sales manager.

Verifone , a world leader in payments and commerce solutions, and Pennies, the digital charity box, today announced that their partnership has reached a significant milestone by helping to unlock £1million for charities in the United Kingdom.

BCA Research, the leading provider of independent investment research, today announced the launch of Energy Sector Strategy (NRG), a new service that provides in-depth equity research, analysis and investment recommendations within the Energy Sector. NRG continues BCA’s strategy to expand its market leading macroeconomic framework into sector (mid) and single-name (micro) research, to deliver an independent, objective and integrated approach to investment analysis.

Back from a couple of weeks in Mexico where it seemed the whole world was going steadily insane (or maybe that was just the tequila). Anyways, it was reassuring to start the week with another “wow is that what they really meant?” moment whilst gorging on the never-ending box set known as MiFID 2. This time it’s about the obligations on brokers to report annually their top venues of execution. A sensible(ish) pointer towards disclosure and best execution, but there’s a catch.

Leading UK legal systems innovator Zylpha has launched the first PayPal utility for legal practices. The new integration enables law firms to take clients’ payments easily including: initial ‘on account’ funds, disbursements, diarised invoice sums and final settlements. Zylpha believes that the new solution, which operates within LexisNexis Visualfiles, provides a fast, easy and customer friendly method of securing client funds. In addition, where required, The PayPal integration can be used in conjunction with leading eSignature product Adobe Sign.