Broadridge Financial Solutions announced that China Post & Capital Global Asset Management Limited ("China Post Global"), the international asset management arm of China Post & Capital Fund Management Co., Ltd. – jointly owned by China Post Group, Capital Securities and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation -- went live on Broadridge's integrated trading and portfolio management platform.

Valassis and Acxiom will deliver the post-campaign analytics marketers now demand to activate consumers and drive improved results.

Consumers interact with multiple media channels along their path to purchase, challenging marketers to identify those influential touch points in order to develop successful plans. Today marketers are faced with building a plan using fragmented data from a variety of sources without the linkage that provides an integrated view of a consumer’s purchase behavior.

ISITC Europe, the industry group dedicated to improving the operational efficiency of the capital markets industry, has held its first General Meeting of 2016. The meeting – the trade body’s first since its relaunch and the appointment of new CEO Nigel Solkhon – was a success, with over a hundred attendees from across the financial sector convening to discuss the theme of “How is the securities market responding to digital and regulatory challenges in a low growth, low margin environment?”

JHC Systems, the leading provider of wealth management solutions, is proud to announce their support of the Dallaglio Foundation with the aim of helping young people tackle life in a positive way. The Dallaglio Foundation set up by Ex – England Rugby player, Lawrence Dallaglio, aims to impact the lives of those excluded from mainstream education – increasing their self-worth, improving life chances and boosting their chances of a future in employment.

Red Hat announced that Royal Bank of Scotland is powering its new Open Experience center with Red Hat technologies, including the Red Hat Mobile Application Platform and OpenShift Enterprise, Red Hat's web-scale container application platform.

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For Apple, the investment in Didi highlights the strategic importance of China and the services segment for Apple’s future strategy. The past quarter’s results show that Apple’s iPhone business is slowing and expansion in China had been one of its main growth drivers in recent years. As its hardware business has slowed, Apple has been keen to drive growth in its services revenues. This move shows how Apple is increasingly focused on services, such as Apple Pay, App Store, Apple Music, iTunes and iCloud.

Insurers are embracing digital to meet the demands of the modern consumer. And of course there are obvious benefits to them from less costly, more streamlined interactions with their customers. The trouble is that digitisation comes with a major health warning: unless insurers put suitable measures in place, they risk being exposed by increasingly sophisticated fraudsters and falling prey to one in around every 10 claims being fraudulent.