Athene, a rapidly growing pension annuity provider in the U.S., has adopted RiskFirst’s pension risk analytics and reporting platform, PFaroe, to enhance their monitoring capabilities for plan sponsors. Athene will use PFaroe’s on-demand liability and transaction price monitoring services to help plan sponsors evaluate risk, enabling those considering purchasing an annuity to transact at the optimal time.

Leading security token platform Polymath has today announced a strategic collaboration with digital identity verification solution Blockpass. Blockpass will provide clients of the Polymath platform with a streamlined identity verification solution, simplifying user onboarding and decreasing required resources in the process. This partnership cements both companies’ ultimate goal of simplifying processes in the blockchain ecosystem, and providing easy and manageable solutions for regulated businesses.

Solactive announces the release of its Solactive eGaming Index. It serves as the underlying of the Evolve E-Gaming Index ETF (“HERO”) and includes companies active in eGaming and eSports, both of which are striving markets with robust performance potentials. Canadian ETF provider Evolve ETFs will be the first company to launch an ETF tracking the index.

Paysend launches a new revolutionary solution for global payments, leveraging the transparency of blockchain technology and a well-established global network. The new stablecoin was built directly on the Stellar network and will provide a consistent store of value that users can hold, or seamlessly trade and transact with in real time. 

National Settlement Depository (NSD), Russian central securities depository, continues to develop services integrated into the global financial system. Raiffeisen Bank International (Vienna) has become the first foreign custodian bank to establish a direct link with the Russian securities market by opening a foreign nominee securities account directly with the Russian CSD. Due to this, the bank can provide its clients with access to a wide range of Russian financial instruments and NSD services.

Wealth managers believe that delivering highly personalized services is essential to achieve a competitive differentiation but a third of are unable to personalized service to the degree they wish, reveals the new report ‘The Next-Generation Wealth Managers: Advancing Services and Personalization with Technology’ from Forbes Insights and Temenos, the banking software company.

The IR Society is delighted to announce that Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BofAML) will be the new sponsor of the senior investor relations development programme, DELIVER (DElivering Leadership in InVEstor Relations).

Financial IT interviews Yinglian Xie, CEO and Co-founder of DataVisor

KAS BANK, the specialist provider of securities services to the UK pension industry, has advanced its cost transparency services with an end-to-end cost transparency solution for DC pension schemes, aiding the delivery of the cost report on the Chair Statement.

KAS BANK’s cost transparency solution for DC schemes comes in answer to regulatory pressure on pension fund trustees to create and publish a Chair Statement that reports on costs and charges and determines value for money for members.

Volante Technologies Inc., a global provider of software to accelerate digital transformation and modernization, today announced that it is providing end-to-end SEPA (Single Euro Payments Area) instant payments processing as an on-demand managed service on Microsoft Azure. Volante’s SEPA Instant Payments as a service will provide all payment service providers (PSPs) certified access to the two principal pan-European schemes, EBA CLEARING’s RT1 and ECB’s TIPS, through the high-speed, secure messaging and low-latency SIAnet network.