In 2013, the Federal Reserve decided to step in and start a 40-year conversation in the making, asking the nation’s experts in payments, business, and banking their thoughts on what a faster payment system could look like.

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the premier post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, issued its recommendations on global data harmonization to the CPMI IOSCO Harmonization working group today, detailing a proposed path towards a global data harmonization, with credit derivatives identified as the first step. The approach involves harmonizing approximately 30 data fields across global trade repository providers, essentially creating a global data dictionary; these fields are viewed

OpenDNS, a leading provider of cloud-delivered network security, today announced that it has established its first Europe, The Middle East and Africa (EMEA) headquarters in London, accelerating its global expansion efforts. The US-based company will leverage its growing international presence to help companies in the region prevent their employees from reaching out to malicious sites and block incoming advanced threats that can infect their corporate networks — securing users and data anywhere, anytime, on any device.

 Chip & PIN Solutions, a leading UK based terminal provider with over 10 years’ experience within the payment industry, has chosen TNS’ Global Wireless Access (GWA) Roaming SIM and MIS solutions to boost its future growth.

The company, established in 2004, supplies thousands of mobile card payment terminals to a broad range of businesses, from sole traders to blue chip companies, with an impressive existing customer base including Virgin Trains, Pimlico Plumbers and Weight Watchers.

Recognising the exponential increase in the automation of transactions within the global funds industry, Denmark-based AP Pension has selected Calastone, the global funds transaction network,to provide its order routing services to underpin its administration platform for cross-border trading.

AP Pension administers approximately DKK 100bn of institutional assets from around 2,000 corporate pension schemes across UCITS funds, separate accounts, internally managed and various alternative investment funds.

Ingenico Group (Euronext: FR0000125346-ING), global leader in seamless payment, announced today that Ingenico Payment Services has become a Demandware LINK Partner to enable simple integration between its international payment platform and the Demandware Commerce Cloud.

This partnership will give Demandware online merchants access to Ingenico’s end-to-end solution which includes a secure multi-channel payments solution offering a wide range of international and local payment methods, and a fraud prevention solution.

The leading provider of transaction automation solutions in Central and Eastern Europe, and INETCO^® Systems Limited, a leading provider of real-time transaction monitoringand banking analytics software solutions, have teamed to help financial organizations in the region gain on-demand access to rich customer transaction data through the