Alior Bank will use Misys FusionCapital to streamline processes and boost operational efficiencies across its treasury and foreign exchange trading business. The solution supports the bank’s continued rapid growth which at the moment averages 15% on an annual basis.

Evidencing its commitment to creating a seamless customer experience, Santander is pleased to be the first UK bank to enable customers to make payments using their voice. This new technology follows the successful launch of voice assistant banking, introduced last year and the enhanced functionality means the tool now understands commands such as:

• Pay Julia £30 tomorrow
• How much did I spend on holiday?
• I’ve lost my card; and
• What is my balance?

Inland Bank and Trust (“Inland Bank”) today announced the appointment of Thomas Marvinac as executive vice president and chief credit officer.

Marvinac brings more than 30 years of diverse banking experience to his position, including credit administration, due diligence, allowance for loan and lease loss reserve, special assets and commercial lending.

EquiChain, a London-based Fintech company with an Asia regional office in Hong Kong, announces its working prototype for capital markets.  The company plans to implement a full end-to-end ‘execution to custody’ (E2C) pilot in 2017, positioning EquiChain to deliver the full potential of distributed ledger technology (DLT).

The company also announces the closing of its initial funding round, secured from its board members, advisors and close stakeholders.

Alpine Global Master Fund, a long/short market-neutral hedge fund, has appointed Northern Trust (Nasdaq: NTRS) to provide hedge fund administration services and middle office outsourcing.

The fund has a fundamental based quantitative investment methodology and is managed by BOCOM International Asset Management Limited, with Huatai-PineBridge Fund Management Co., Ltd. as the investment advisor.

As we are now deep into Q1 2017, analyst firm Celent recently released the results of a survey on the state of innovation within financial services.

As data encryption is more widely adopted to protect sensitive applications and information, Gemalto (Euronext NL0000400653 GTO), the world leader in digital security, today announced the launch of two new solutions that give enterprises unparalleled speed, performance and security when encrypting data across the cloud, enterprise applications and high-speed corporate networks. 

trivago N.V. (NASDAQ: TRVG) announced today that selected financial data of the company for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2016, have been released by Expedia, Inc., trivago N.V.'s majority shareholder, as part of its quarterly and annual segment reporting. The earnings release is available on the Securities and Exchange Commission's website at http://www.sec.gov.

At our very core, OANDA has always been an extremely client-focused organisation, dedicated to creating a fair and transparent arena in which retail clients can trade, safe in the knowledge that we have their best interests at heart. That’s why we believe the affirmative stance taken by the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) against the misrepresentation of interests to retail clients trading the global currency markets is an extremely positive move.