At Braintree, we’re expanding our open platform to enable the future of mobile commerce.

Fintech may be all the rage, but it is in the mobile arena where the biggest bets are being placed, with over $1.1 billion raised globally across 58 financings in Q1 alone, according to data from CB Insights.

20 years on from the first industry conference on IT Service Management (ITSM) has the field truly evolved? For the past 24 months the number one focus for CIOs has remained unequivocal (i): to ensure IT fully supports new business needs. 

CIOs now fully realize that their role is to be the catalyst for transformation, ensuring they deliver disruptive technologies, accelerate insights and develop effective relationships with CMOs, CFOs and COOs (ii). 

 eWise, the leading international provider of Personal Financial Management (PFM) and Account Aggregation solutions, announce that MoneySmart.sg will launch in the second half of 2015 an advanced Personal Financial Management tool using the eWise Money Management solution.

 Thomson Reuters, the world’s leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals, today announced the publication of proposed operational procedures for trading protocols on its FXall platforms, including a codified Provisory Liquidity protocol that governs participants’ use of ‘last look’ liquidity.

LMAX Exchange, the leading FCA regulated MTF for global FX and the UK’s fastest growing technology firm, has been named ‘Best Margin Sector Platform’ for the third year running at the 2015 Profit & Loss Readers’ Choice Awards in New York.

The Profit & Loss Readers’ Choice Awards, which are based on reader votes, recognise excellence within the FX industry throughout the previous year.

IBM today announced 20 new industry-specific solutions with pre-built predictive analytics capabilities that will make it easier and faster for organizations across industries like retail, banking, telecommunications, insurance and others, to uncover and act on critical business insights.

SunGard has won the 2015 Inside Reference Data Award for Best Corporate Actions Vendor for its XSP solution. Hosted by Inside Market Data and Inside Reference Data, the awards recognize industry excellence in market data, reference data and enterprise data management.

A brief history of what's in your wallet

The Credit Card and revolving balance concept arrived in the second half of the 20th century. Diners Club, American Express, Visa and Mastercard have all made their mark in the history of the Credit Card.

From John Biggins “Charg-it” card in 1946 to the modern day chipped rectangles of glossy plastic that reside in everyones wallet today, to the arrival of mobile and digital payments for most transactions we are still punching a 4 digit pin number into a POS device or an ATM.