Accenture (ACN) is launching seven advanced analytics applications for the financial services industry, including banking and insurance companies, to simplify analytics decision-making by placing insight at users’ fingertips.

London Stock Exchange Group plc (“LSEG” or the “Group”) today announces that Mary Schapiro will join the Group Board as a Non-Executive Director, with effect 1 July 2015.

Lombard Risk Management plc (LSE: LRM) ("Lombard Risk"), a leading provider of integrated regulatory reporting and collateral management for the financial services industry, is pleased to announce that the London branch of Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank has successfully gone live with Lombard Risk REPORTER for Bank of Engla

Leading international crowdfunding platform 

SunGard has won Wealth & Finance International’s 2015 Alternative Investment Award for its XSP solution in the “Best Equities Broker/Dealer - USA” category. These awards recognize and pay tribute to groundbreaking, forward-thinking and client-friendly businesses across a wide spectrum of global industries and sectors.

Fiserv, Inc. (NASDAQ: FISV), a leading global provider of financial services technology solutions, today announced that U.S. Bank, the fifth largest bank in the United States, has signed a five-year renewal for the CheckFree RXP(R) electronic billing and payment, Popmoney(R) personal payment and TransferNow(R) account-to-account transfer solutions.

Josh was in high spirits, trading had been good that day. He had downloaded an algo app overnight that allowed him to arb Google dollars against Apple iCoins. It was no longer any use, of course, as by now everyone else had downloaded it too. But his edge had been that his simulator had processed it faster than anyone else. This was required by the regulator to check it contained no malware but, more importantly, so he could confirm that it would actually do what the developer claimed. Even so, it had made him a few hundred grand less comm to the algo developer.

Since its introduction, the Retail Distribution Review (RDR) has placed a heavier burden on the compliance and regulatory obligations of many retail firms, increasing the compliance costs. The consequences have included profit warnings, consolidation and exits by smaller IFA firms across the industry. This pattern has continued unabated.

‘Compliance creep’

Judo Payments, Europe’s only mobile-first payments platform, today confirms its announcement as one of the payments platform providers selected to support Apple Pay when it launches in the UK in July.