Spratt Endicott Solicitors, in partnership with UK Trade and Investments and Barclays Bank, is hosting a free trading clinic for SMEs that have increased their export levels in recent years and would like to learn more about trading in the global market. The event will take place on Thursday 14th May between 9am and 12pm at The Littlebury Hotel in Bicester.

Telstra has strengthened its offering for the financial services sector with the launch today of the lowest latency international connectivity between the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) and the Singapore Exchange (SGX).
 
The Australian Liquidity Centre is the ASX’s purpose-built financial markets data centre, while the SGX’s Co-Location facility houses its trading, market data and clearing infrastructure.
 

Carta Worldwide is pleased to announce that allpay has selected Carta to launch three new Prepaid programs – an emergency relief programme (instant issuance), a travel expense/corporate card, and a government benefits programme with ‘SmartConnect’. 

• 17 percent increase in credit card fraud losses observed in a sample of 7.5 million cards
• Total card purchases rose just 5 percent
• 70 percent of card fraud was card-not-present, 80 percent was cross-border

Fast-growing technology consulting and end-to-end solution company DataArt today announced further expansion in Western Europe, with the opening of offices in Munich, Germany and Wroclaw, Poland.  The move brings the DataArt global location count to 15.

The Munich office will initially focus on projects in the financial services, media and IoT sectors.

Nomis Solutions is delighted to announce the appointment of Michael DeGusta to lead the architecture and development of the company’s next-generation pricing platform. Michael joined the company as Vice President and Chief Architect in early 2015 and has already been instrumental in pushing the capabilities of Nomis Solution’s cutting-edge pricing technology forward.

Official figures for Q4 2014 released by the global technical body EMVCo show that significant advances are being made globally in the adoption of EMV® chip technology. By the end of last year, the number of EMV payment cards in circulation rose by 1 billion, up 43%, to 3.4 billion, from 2.37 billion in Q4 2013.  

 Omgeo, a wholly owned subsidiary of The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) and the global standard for post-trade efficiency, announced today that Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund GIC Private Limited (GIC) has adopted Omgeo ALERT^SM, the industry’s largest and most compliant web-based global database for the maintenance and communication of account and Standing Settlement Instructions (SSIs).

Ullink, a global provider of market leading electronic trading and connectivity solutions is pleased to announce that CITIC Securities International (CSI), a leading China-focused international investment bank, deployed Ullink’s low latency connectivity platform, order management, algorithmic trading and market making solutions as a fully hosted service, to power its trading desk technology in Asia and the US.  Adding CSI to its growing list of clients adds further reinforcement to Ullink’s expansion plans across the Asian Pacific and Americas regions.

Bridging the gap between convenience and security for digital payments has long been a subject of discussion within the payments industry. Findings from an investigation undertaken by myPINpad into the gaps in the payment industry have identified a number of issues:

·         Security concerns cause 35% of all abandoned carts in online commerce. Putting that in monetary terms, the cost to retailers is estimated to be $1.4 trillion in 2015