Thomson Reuters, the world’s leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals, today announced that its dealer-to-customer trading venue, FXall, has again been named “Best multibank and independent platform” in this year’s Euromoney Foreign Exchange Survey for the 14th consecutive year.

This year, Euromoney’s annual quantitative and qualitative study of the FX markets is the result of a survey of more than 3,400 consumers of FX liquitdity, who represent a total FX consumption of $95 trillion in the 2015 calendar year.

OT (Oberthur Technologies), a leading global provider of embedded security software products and services, today announced the appointment of Muzaffar Khokhar as RMEA Regional President in addition to his current role as Business Director of the Financial Services Institutions business in the RMEA region.

Glory Global Solutions, a global leader in secure cash management solutions, today announced the launch of Ntegra™ Plus, an innovative desktop banknote counter/sorter that has been developed to enable enhanced processing of the Next Generation Australian banknotes.

With Australian Payments Clearing Association estimating that there will be 9.4 billion cash payments in 2018 and with banknotes being used in around 90 percent of cash payments, the processing of new banknotes that incorporate innovative security features presents a new and significant challenge.

A new cloud-based service, letting consumer lenders improve loan quality and acceptance rates through the use of big data, is leading the charge in the fight against cyber criminals and online fraud.

Big Data Scoring - a tool used by banks and financial institutions to determine someone's creditworthiness based on data secured online - has introduced a range of new features to see if the user’s actions are legitimate.

Santander is pleased to be the first UK bank to introduce Blockchain technology which facilitates international payments, through a new app. It is currently being rolled out as a staff pilot, with the intention to expand the technology at a later date.

Profidata Group AG (Profidata Group) has acquired the entire shares of abraxas GmbH (abraxas), a business that makes a perfect match for the existing portfolio of Profidata products and services.