Barclaycard, which processes nearly half of the UK’s credit and debit card transactions, today announces that it will start accepting cards that run on the Discover Global Network across its UK merchant network. 

Barclaycard and Discover Global Network have reached an agreement whereby Barclaycard’s merchants are now able to accept Discover, Diners Club International and affiliate network cards both in-store and online. 

With banks now suffering well over one IT outage per month, the extent of this financial IT problem needs immediate attention.

Gjensidige and Nordea announced today that Nordea has successfully acquired Gjensidige Bank ASA. In connection with the completion of the transaction, the mutual distribution agreement between Nordea and Gjensidige Forsikring will also take effect.

ION has announced that Fidessa won Best Smart Order Routing System at the A-Team Group’s TradingTech Insight awards in London last night. 

Reference is made to the joint press release by Thales (Euronext Paris: HO) and Gemalto (Euronext Amsterdam and Paris: GTO) dated 27 March 2018 in relation to the launch of the recommended all-cash offer by Thales for all the issued and outstanding shares of Gemalto (the "Offer"), the publication of the Offer Document, and the joint press release of Thales and Gemalto dated 10 August 2018 in relation to the further extension of the Acceptance Period. Terms not defined in this press release will have the meaning as set forth in the Offer Document.

Path Solutions is pleased to announce that it has recently completed the successful upgrade of iMAL Islamic core banking platform at Boubyan Bank.

IHS Markit, a world leader in critical information, analytics and solutions, today announced the addition of new functionality to its Securities Finance platform, a leading source of data and intelligence on global securities financing transactions. The enhancements deliver public disclosure coverage for the Japanese market, a global data feed on corporate bond lending activity, an updated model for forecasting short interest in the US and multi-asset performance measurement tools.

On 21^stand 22^ndMay 2019, over 500 senior bank executives and industry experts will gather in London to discover how pioneering banks are using self-service and digital banking technology to succeed in an increasingly competitive environment

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Densify, the leader in the Cloud Resource Management software market, today announced the findings of its global enterprise cloud survey of IT professionals.  80% of respondents have actively deployed containers or will do so in the near future.  As public cloud is the preferred option for container deployment, Google is the clear winner in this adoption and growing at 117% year over year, a much faster rate than that of AWS and Azure.  As proper cloud resource provisioning is extremely complex when deploying container environments, the survey shows an acceleration of was

genesis, the international capital markets software firm, today launched the Automated Quoting System (AQS). Built with alpha-driven fixed income desks in mind, AQS will transform trading by automating internal workflows between the trading desk, institutional clients, asset managers and wealth managers, leaving traders free to focus on risk management and market opportunities.