MasterCard joins the elusive commodities of time and money and helps U.S. businesses save both with the latest version of its popular, professional site, MasterCard Business Network™ 2.0.

The new site is built on feedback from hundreds of small- and mid-sized businesses who universally expressed the needs to minimize costs, get more time in their days and engage with new and existing customers. MasterCard Business Network 2.0 was created with these challenges and opportunities in mind.

Paysafecard, the Vienna-based global market leader in prepaid online payment methods, and member of Skrill Group, a worldwide provider of online payment technologies, announces that Dr. Hartwig Gerhartinger (36), Senior Legal Counsel at paysafecard, has been selected to join the governing body of the Prepaid International Forum (PIF). As a not-for-profit trade association, PIF represents the global prepaid industry and the interests of all its member organisations.

HID Global®, a worldwide leader in secure identity solutions, has introduced the ActivID® Tap Authentication™ platform for convenient and secure multi-factor authentication to cloud applications and web services.  HID Global’s new ActivID Tap Authentication for Microsoft enables users to simply tap their smart card to laptops, tablets, phones and other NFC-enabled devices for easy and convenient access to Office365 a

Advent Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADVS), a leading provider of software and services for the global investment management industry, today announced that Advent was awarded “Best Client Communications & Reporting” and “Best Portfolio Management” for wealth management technology at the 2015 WealthBriefing Swiss awards in a ceremony in Geneva, Switzerland. The program recognizes excellence among technology solution providers specializing in tools for Swiss-based wealth managers to deliver best-in-class service for their clients.

 Fidessa group plc (LSE: FDSA) has today announced that its Affirmation Management Service (AMS) has been recognised as the best new post-trade solution for buy-side firms in the Financial Technologies Forum and FTF News Technology Innovation Awards 2015. The award was presented in recognition of the innovation that AMS has brought to post-trade operations and the crucial operational efficiency improvements it delivers. Launched in mid-2014, Fidessa's AMS challenges the status quo in confirmation and affirmation processing to deliver real efficiencies and business value.

Misys, the leading financial software company, has signed an agreement with Efficiency Management Consulting to become a member of the InFusion Partner Programme. Efficiency is a fast-growing consulting practice, specialising in business management and organisational design, supporting financial institutions in the design and implementation of transformation strategies.

Numerix (www.numerix.com), the leading provider of cross-asset analytics for derivatives valuations and risk management, announced today its double award win in the 2015 Sell-Side Technology Awards. Numerix was honored to accept acknowledgement for Best Sell-Side Credit Risk Product for the third consecutive year – as well as for Best Implementation at a Sell-Side Firm due to its work with DBS Bank.

Staying Ahead of the Competition

Despite its high profile and buzzword status – in practice, big data and analytics continues to be underutilised and less than adequately applied by a number of financial services businesses. With such wide recognition, why are companies still missing a trick?

S&P Capital IQ®, a business unit of McGraw Hill Financial (NYSE:MHFI), today announced the availability of expanded research and data from Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services (S&P) on its proprietary research platform. Effective today, expanded S&P Ratings’ research is available in real time through S&P Capital IQ’s Investment Research module, a feature that enables subscribers to view, manage and access all of their investment, credit and specialty research in one place on the S&P Capital IQ platform.