Thomson Reuters Eikon Messenger has been awarded “Best Mobile Initiative” at the Inside Market Data/Inside Reference Data awards, a recognition of the company’s commitment to provide market professionals greater agility over a messaging system offering industry leading chat controls and compliance features.

 e.ventures is announcing the closing of a new $150 million early stage fund to target Europe’s best businesses and entrepreneurs, bringing e.ventures’ total assets under management today to more than $1 billion. This new fund, focused on seed and Series A rounds, will be deployed alongside an already active $290 million global growth investment vehicle which targets subsequent financing rounds, allowing entrepreneurs the gain the full benefit of e.ventures’ expertise through the full investment lifecycle.

SimCorp, a leading provider of investment management solutions and services for the global financial services industry, today announced that it has won the 2016 Technology Innovation Awards from FTF News in the categories of  ‘Best IBOR Solution’ and ‘Best Buy-Side Operations Solution.’ This is the second year running that SimCorp has won in the IBOR (investment book of record) category. 

Fiserv, a leading global provider of financial services technology solutions, announced today that it has renewed its contract with John Deere Financial, the global financial services division of Deere & Company, to continue providing their revolving credit card processing for another 10 years.

Through a new partnership with fintech company Tink, SEB's customers will get a better opportunity to gather, analyse and manage their finances. SEB will at the same time invest SEK 36 million in Tink AB, thereby becoming the fifth-largest shareholder.

Tink's technology is included in the first phase of SEB's mobile app for private individuals in Sweden, and makes it possible for customers to collect and categorise detailed information about purchases and savings. Within the framework of the partnership, more functions will be developed.

FIME today announces that its Global test tool is qualified for MasterCard cloud-based payment (MCBP) mobile application testing. Mobile payment solution providers and payment issuers can now validate the functional compliance of their host card emulation (HCE) mobile payments solutions against MCBP Specifications prior to the formal certification stage, reducing product time to market.

EY announces the appointment of Andy Baldwin as its new leader for Europe, Middle East, India and Africa (EMEIA). Andy will become Area Managing Partner on 1 July 2016, leading EY’s EMEIA member firms, which together represent US$11.82b in revenue and more than 102,000 people across 99 countries.

Alliance Data Systems Corporation announced its Columbus, Ohio-based card services business (www.knowmoresellmore.com), a premier provider of branded private label, co-brand and business credit programs, has signed a new long-term agreement to provide private label and co-brand cred