MarketInvoice, the world’s largest peer-to-peer online invoice finance platform, has today launchedMarketInvoice Pro – an innovative confidential invoice discounting service - using technology to provide finance easier and faster for businesses that have a regular funding need.

Neptune Networks Ltd. "Neptune", the open-standard network for bond real-time AXE indications, today announced the addition of Nomura and Jefferies to its network.

Adyen, the leading payments technology company, today announced the company increased transaction volume 80 percent year-over-year, totaling $90 billion in 2016. Adyen also made significant traction in the retail market, unveiling successful in-store and omnichannel payment solutions for customers like Tory Burch and Burberry.

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the premier post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, today announced that its full-service institutional straight-through-processing (STP) suite of products, which automate trade lifecycle events between 3,800investment managers, broker/dealers and custodian banks, processed close to one billion trades, for the first time, in 2016, in

ACI Worldwide (NASDAQ: ACIW), a leading global provider of real-time electronic payment and banking solutions, will be demonstrating the next-generation of eCommerce payments with the UP eCommerce Payments solution at the Merchant Payments Ecosystem conference in Berlin, February 14-16.

The concept of instant cross-border payments, especially in the B2B space, is one of the most coveted milestones in the financial industry. For counterparties who wish to settle transactions in real-time, the exchanging of comprehensive payments data is critical to ensure the completion of the transaction. Achieving real-time payments on a global scale has, however, remained a dream. This is due to the combination of technology deficits, regulatory burdens and process inertia.

Accenture has unveiled a patent-pending solution that simplifies the ability of blockchain technology to integrate with the industrial-grade security systems that support sectors including financial services, healthcare and government. The solution creates a developer-friendly interface between emerging blockchain platforms and widely used hardware security technology. Accenture cooperated with Thales – whose hardware is currently used by most major banks globally to secure records and assets from cybertheft – to develop the solution.

Ancoa, provider of contextual surveillance and insightful analytics for exchanges, regulators, and buy & sell-side firms, today announced that Convergex, an agency-focused global brokerage and trading related services provider, has deployed Ancoa’s market surveillance platform to monitor all trading activity across its domestic (U.S.) and international cash equities and options brokerage businesses. The deployment monitors trading activity of all lit and dark venues including Millennium, Convergex’s proprietary ATS.

TransferGo have unveiled their latest international money transfer option: priority next early morning delivery for just £2.99.

The company’s calling the latest addition to the stable of transfer options Express delivery and it guarantees next business day delivery by 10am, for bookings made between 3:30pm and 7am.

In the first and second series of reflections on Forrester predictions for Fintech, we covered 6 significant trends that are projected to impact the banking sector in 2017.