Swiss financial data expert SIX has announced a partnership with SimCorp, centered on its Sanctioned Securities Monitoring Service, to give financial institutions greater global sanctions data coverage.

While many in the industry played down the significance of cryptocurrencies since the bursting of the most recent speculative bubble, we have seen several of the larger financial institutions – such as Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan – explore seriously how they might offer cryptocurrency services to their clients. Now tech giants are getting on board and this new mainstream deployment from Facebook will bring the conversation straight back to the top of the agenda for the financial industry.

Mobile security leader Trustonic today announces a partnership with Rubean AG, an established mobile security-focused fintech, and CCV, a leading European payment solution provider, to develop an mPOS solution that accepts higher value transactions by enabling hardware-protected PIN entry on a range of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) smartphones.

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), (BSE: 532540, NSE: TCS), a leading global IT services, consulting and business solutions organization, announced that its customer, KGI Bank in Taiwan, has successfully deployed TCS BaNCS for its corporate and consumer banking operations, creating a strong foundation for its next phase of growth.

Algomi, which provides data aggregation technology for the optimization of fixed income liquidity, today announced Algomi ALFA will enable orders to be executed on Liquidnet and Trumid.

With this new functionality, Algomi ALFA goes beyond aggregating market data and liquidity to allow traders to efficiently navigate the markets and execute trades without duplicating steps across platforms. For actionable liquidity alerts, Algomi ALFA enables order staging and desktop interoperability.

McAfee, the device-to-cloud cybersecurity company, today released a special edition of its Cloud and Risk Adoption Report, focused on the business impact of cloud services and how organizations around the world are addressing security gaps to accelerate their businesses with the cloud. Cloud services are the most significant advance in IT since the introduction of the internet itself, and most organizations today benefit from the collaboration, scalability and cost-effectiveness enabled by the use of cloud services.

Densify, the leader in the Cloud Resource Management software market, today announced the findings of a global enterprise cloud survey of IT professionals. The survey found that the top priorities for most organisations, when it comes to deploying workloads in the cloud, is all about the applications.

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Token, the turnkey open banking platform, today announced a $16.5m strategic investment from a pool of investors, including Opera Tech Ventures, the venture arm of BNP Paribas - one of the world’s largest banks - and two other visionary banks headquartered in the Middle East and Southeast Asia.  Existing investors, including Octopus Ventures and EQT Ventures, also participated in the investment.

Compass Plus Processing Centre Great Britain has continued to show its commitment to providing secure processing services for its customers, protecting cardholder data and minimising risk, by becoming certified as fully compliant with PCI 3D Secure requirements version 1.0.

The certification, which took place in March 2019, means that the Compass Plus processing centre ensures the best industry practices in terms of security and compliance in accordance to the new industry standard. The new standard was put in place in 2018 and is mandatory when dealing with 3DS operations.