Market EarlyBird, the UK FinTech company behind EarlyBird – Safe, Smart Twitter for Finance  announced the immediate availability of a native mobile client for EarlyBird.

EarlyBird is a read-only, anonymised Twitter service that provides powerful Tweet search and filtering capabilities enabling users to find financial Tweets that others miss.

Statnett, the Norwegian transmission systems operator (TSO) for energy, has selected FICO Xpress Optimization to power their models of the future of electricity needs in Norway and optimise the current infrastructure. The solution will be used across the organisation to process, analyse and plan key factors relating to the sector.

 Finastra today welcomed four early adopters to its FusionFabric.cloud open platform. US-based Fintechs, including Tradle, Conversation.one, Active Allocator and GreenPoint Financial, are on board to design and create apps on Finastra’s platform. This represents the next wave of innovative financial services software development that will save banks time and money and enable Fintech developers to speed up time to market.   

New research released today by Intuit QuickBooks, the world’s leading online accounting software provider, has found that while the majority (75%) of UK accountants have heard of the upcoming Making Tax Digital (MTD) legislation, nearly a third (30%) of this group are unclear about what it means for their practice, revealing a disconnect between awareness of the legislation and an understanding of its implications.

Exscudo is excited to announce their newest great product Exscudo Channels App which is the first app combining
payment and communication functionalities on the global market. It is a tool for sending money and messages
from any mobile device, outreaching every existing payment and communication solution. Exscudo Team has
taken the best blockchain practices to provide people with ultimate security and reliability of Channels App.
The Exscudo Team developed Channels App as a tool suitable for people who look for secure business

Whether or not to outsource some or even all operations can be a large and often controversial decision, and there is no one-size-fits-all solution. With size, strategy, vision and resources to take into consideration, choosing the best operation model needs to be based on both internal capabilities and company competencies.

TranzAxis is an award-winning, SOA-based, third-generation issuing and acquiring payments platform designed with innovation in its DNA. Described as ‘visionary’ by PayX, TranzAxis was developed to challenge the world of legacy card-based infrastructures by providing an advanced system to help build revolutionary future-proof payments ecosystems. TranzAxis is not card-centric… it is token-based. It’s not cloud-ready… it’s cloud-native. It’s not API-enabled… it’s API-first. 

HPS, a leading payment software company, has launched PowerCARD Connect-Open API, an open banking platform that enables FinTech firms to build innovative payments applications on banks and other large financial institutions’ existing payment systems. 

Closer scrutiny of trading and more stringent capital requirements call for sophisticated data management and tighter integration, not to mention a robust IT infrastructure. That’s according to Ioannis Akkizidis, Global Product Manager for Wolters Kluwer’s Finance, Risk & Reporting business.