Orange and Groupama have signed an agreement that aims to enable the development of an innovative, 100% mobile banking service. This agreement concludes the exclusive discussions that have been ongoing between the two Groups since January and paves the way for the acquisition by Orange of a 65% stake in Groupama Banque. Groupama will retain the remaining 35%.

VocaLink announced today that it has been selected as the recipient of the 2016 George Mitchell Payments System Excellence Award. The award is given annually by NACHA—The Electronic Payments Association®.

The award is named after former vice-chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, George Mitchell, an early proponent of electronic payments. It honors an individual or organization that has shown superior leadership in the development, implementation or advancement of domestic or international electronic payments. 

ICAP Securities & Derivatives Exchange (ISDX), a fully regulated UK based stock exchange owned by the ICAP Group, announces today that it has appointed Tom Binks and Michael Berkeley to the ISDX Board.

CA Advanced Authentication is a packaged offer that combines two authentication solutions - CA Strong Authentication (formerly CA AuthMinder) and CA Risk Authentication (formerly CA RiskMinder). The application provides authentication processing for a variety of applications in the organization of any size. The authentication methods include risk-based as well as multi-factor, strong authentication credentials.

Discussions around legacy payment platforms always generate heated debate. Whilst these antiquated systems were not built to fare the pressures of today, the fact that so many high-profile and successful financial institutions continue to build upon infrastructure first implemented in the 1970s can go far in illustrating the longevity of this technology.

Fidessa has been named Best Sell-side Front Office Execution Platform, for the second consecutive year, at the 2016 Sell-side Technology Awards hosted by Waters Magazine. These awards recognize the leading technologies and vendors in the sell-side financial technology arena.

Chances are there was an advert in the newspaper this morning about the launch of a new mobile-based digital payment service by yet another bank. No morning, it seems, can pass without at least one such ad, a promotional post on social media or a television commercial. Can you blame anyone if they begin to equate digital with mobile services? But digital is much more than mobile. Traditional bankers are becoming wise to the larger digital trend and are busy looking around their offices identifying everything that can “Go Digital”.

Majesco, a provider of core insurance software, consulting and services for insurance business transformation, extended agreement to use the Majesco P&C Suite Cloud platform by Homesite Insurance, a wholly owned subsidiary of American Family Mutual Insurance Company. Homesite Insurance will use Majesco’s multi-line cloud platform with ready to use content, including ISO ERC integrated content, for the commercial line of business.

TickSmith’s TickVault Platform was recently implemented for use by National Bank of Canada. Based on Hadoop technology, TickVault accumulates and rebuilds all Canadian stock trading activity and is used for post-trade analysis and back testing.

Fiserv announced the launch of