Today, Market EarlyBird, a UK fintech company that provides a read-only Twitter service for use on trading and research floors, has added new features to the platform to help investment banks and hedge funds track key Brexit and European Election news on the social media platform.  

AxiomSL, the leading global provider of regulatory reporting and risk management solutions, announced today that Banco Sabadell has chosen AxiomSL’s strategic platform to automate its regulatory reporting.

The platform will be implemented at Banco Sabadell’s headquarters in Barcelona and is the bank’s second project with AxiomSL, having also used AxiomSL for its UK arm, TSB. 

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) grants approval for Siemens Bank GmbH Singapore Branch to operate as a merchant bank in Singapore. The new branch will cover financing activities for the Asia-Australia region. In addition to its main pillar, the loan and guarantee business, the branch will also provide selected finance advisory services for the Siemens group companies in Asia-Australia.

Today Vista Equity Partners announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire D+H, the largest Canadian-based software provider of lending, payments and financial solutions and intends to merge it with Misys, the global software leader for retail and corporate banking, lending, treasury and capital markets, investment management and enterprise risk.

In a new report, ‘The start-up view: a year in FinTech’,Startupbootcamp and PwC analyse application data from Startupbootcamp’s FinTech accelerator programme as well as the volume of deals in the UK FinTech market in 2016. Working alongside startups and financial services companies, they have seen a big change in culture over the past year and a shift towards a better understanding of artificial intelligence and its potential to solve customer problems. 

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National Bank of Abu Dhabi (NBAD) Egypt intends to provide an omnichannel experience for their customers. In conjunction with it, NBAD Egypt launches next generation of internet banking powered by CR2’s BankWorld Internet platform as of 12 March 2017. The bank will release soon Mobile App, provided also by CR2. 

Financial IT had an inspiring interview with Alberto Dalmasso, Founder & CEO of Satispay about industrial changes and the way Satispay differentiates itself in today's marketplace. 

Finacial IT: Hi Alberto, first of all thanks for this interview. Can you tell us briefly about Satispay and your background?

SWIFT announces today that the Fedwire^® Funds Service of the Federal Reserve Banks in the United States and The Clearing House (CHIPS) have established local market practices for their participants that use the SWIFT global payments innovation (gpi) service.

Dianrong and FnConn, Chinese fintech firms, filled in the hugely underserved needs of supply chain finance in China by introducing the new blockchain-based platform for supply chain finance called Chained Finance.

Lantern Credit, a financial technology company working to solve systematic inefficiencies in the consumer credit industry, is enhancing its proprietary machine learning engine, Beam AI, with the acquisition of the Abstract Regression-Classification (ARC) Machine Learning Library.

The machine learning library enables Lantern Credit to use a human-machine hybrid learning approach that incorporates human guidance in the machine learning training process to produce more reliable outputs.