Solactive is pleased to announce the release of the Solactive Australian Government 7-12 Year AUD TR Index, serving as the underlying index of the BetaShares Australian Government Bond ETF (ASX code: AGVT). Another BetaShares ETF, the BetaShares Australia 200 ETF (ASX: A200), which uses an underlying Solactive Index, recently became Australia’s fastest ETF to exceed AUD500m in FUM.

Axioma, the leading global provider of enterprise risk management, portfolio construction and regulatory reporting solutions, has launched Linked Models, a new feature of the Risk Model Machine^TM solution. Linked Models offer investment professionals a streamlined and clear view of risk across regions or sectors, creating consistency in the risk/return profile as viewed from the front and middle offices.

Financial technology solutions provider MonetaGo has today announced that a commercial paper has been digitally issued in Asia for the first time using blockchain technology.

MonetaGo completed this transaction through a partnership with banking services provided by YES Bank and the issuer Vedanta, a natural resources conglomerate.

India’s highly-regulated commercial paper market involves huge amount of paperwork to be prepared by the Issuer for every transaction.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly finding applications in nearly every walk of life. Self-driving cars, social media networks, cyber security companies, and everything in between uses it. But a new report published by the SHERPA consortium – an EU project studying the impact of AI on ethics and human rights that F-Secure joined in 2018 – finds that while human attackers have access to machine learning techniques, they currently focus most of their efforts on manipulating existing AI systems for malicious purposes instead of creating new attacks that would use machine learning.

NeoXam, a leading provider of data management and transaction software solutions dedicated to the financial industry, has today announced a strategic new hire in the DACH region.

OpenWay has been recognized as ‘Best Solution Provider for Payment Systems in the Cloud’ at the PayTech Awards ceremony in London.

MSTS, a global B2B payment and credit solutions provider, and SCHERMER, a global B2B marketing agency, today announced their 4Business partnership. Together, the B2B payment systems and marketing leaders created 4Business to enable B2C brands to expand into the B2B market through customized solutions that deliver a streamlined, omni-channel B2B brand and buying experience.

Acronis, a global leader in cyber protection, today announced that it extended the easy, efficient, and secure backup and recovery capabilities of Acronis Backup to SAP HANA data. Acronis’ innovative data imaging solution now seamlessly protects the entire database without requiring any deep knowledge or expertise in SAP HANA.

RiskFirst has appointed Torgeir “Tor” Helgevold as Principal Technical Architect as it extends its presence in the US with the establishment of a New York City software development office. Tor will head up the team, which will focus on product innovation and supporting RiskFirst’s drive to bring the benefits of leading-edge technology to asset managers.

TransferGo, one of the world’s fastest growing money transfer companies, today announced that it has launched an ‘extended hours’ service, enabling customers to make same-day international payments on weekends, with transactions taking as little as 30 minutes. Both its Today and Now services will become available during the weekend, between 10:00 and 18:00.

An industry first, the extended hours service will enable people to send money to Romania, Ukraine, Lithuania and Latvia upon launch, and it will soon open up to other markets including the UK and Poland.