Bank of Scotland, Barclays, Halifax and Lloyds Bank are working with Zapp, VocaLink’s payments innovation team, to deliver “Pay by Bank app” that makes paying with your mobile safe, secure and convenient

VocaLink today announces its new “Pay by Bank app” service is soon to be available to customers of four of the UK’s biggest banks.

SIFMA has launched an interactive database that displays information about the capital markets in each state.  The database is designed to be a resource for audiences seeking to learn more about capital markets and their impact on states’ economic growth, infrastructure and innovation.

The database includes several downloadable data points for each state, including:

BioCatch™, the global leader in Behavioral Authentication and Malware Detection, announced today the integration of additional Microsoft Azure capabilities into its behavioral biometrics technology, enhancing BioCatch’s ability to detect and fight financial fraud at some of the largest banks and ecommerce sites around the world.

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 IPC Systems, Inc., a leading global provider of specialized communications and managed network-as-a-service solutions for the financial trading community, today announced that it has launched Fixed Income Marketplace, a premier holistic connectivity solution for market participants to trade fixed income instruments electronically or via voice.

Bravura Solutions Pty Limited (Bravura) today announced that boutique fund manager, Margetts Fund Management Limited (Margetts), has selected its SaaS transfer agency package. As the first customer to take advantage of the off-the-shelf functionality, Margetts benefited from the short implementation timeframe and low operating costs associated with the offering. The solution supports the distribution, servicing and administration of Margetts’ full range of products and share classes.

Torstone Technology, the leading provider of post-trade securities and derivatives processing, today announces that a Myanmar-based broker has begun using Inferno, Torstone’s post-trade securities and derivatives processing system. Inferno will process the broker’s post-trade flow of its equities execution business. Inferno covers the whole trade life-cycle from trade capture through to settlement, accounting and reconciliation.