Nuance Communications, introduced the Nuance Transcription Engine (NTE), a powerful, fast and accurate engine that can quickly transform massive amounts of recorded audio into actionable data across a wide range of industries.

The 3^rd South Asian Diaspora Convention (SADC) returns to Singapore this July, themed “Growth through Interaction: The South Asian Opportunity”. This year, the convention will be held at the Raffles City Convention Centre on 18^th and 19^th July 2016. It will bring together more than 1,000 distinguished guests and over 50 of the region’s leading policymakers, business leaders, academics and civil society leaders to be part of these groundbreaking South Asian conversations.

Innovative cloud accounting software provider FreeAgent has teamed up with one of the UK’s leading accountancy firms to provide hundreds of contractors with greater clarity over their business finances.

Sopra Steria, a European leader in digital transformation, has today announced a new digital partnership with ‘The Services Family’, a UK military challenger bank being developed by The Services Family Ltd (TSFL). Sopra Steria will provide the digital expertise and solutions to help build the bank and bring ‘The Services Family’ to the UK market.

Since June, Deutsche Börse Managed Services provides the IT infrastructure for the trading platform of German private bank Donner & Reuschel. These services enable a seamless connection to the trading platforms Xetra and Eurex. The Managed Services form part of Deutsche Börse’s Infrastructure Services offer, which comprises licensing, hosting and maintenance of Deutsche Börse applications and infrastructure elements to external clients.

Wolters Kluwer reports the opening of its office in Jakarta. Addressing the increasing needs of an evolving financial sector, the office will provide professional services, project support and training, and strengthen our base within the country.

Fenergo, the leading provider of Client Lifecycle Management solutions, has today announced the launch of an enhanced version of its Fenergo Tax Compliance solutions with richer rules content, remediation and reporting functionality to reduce operational overheads and improve global compliance with tax regulations.

Fenergo’s Tax Compliance suite provides a rules-driven process to identify reportable accounts and perform due diligence for every client and account, providing data capture and classification obligations for CRS and FATCA.

SWIFT announces the launch of KYC Adverse Media, a news service integrated into its KYC Registry, a centralised repository that maintains a standardised set of information about financial institutions required for KYC compliance. In partnership with Dow Jones, SWIFT  will now make high-quality Dow Jones Risk & Compliance data available to the more than 2,500 correspondent banks and funds players that are already using The KYC Registry as part of their know your customer compliance programmes.