ITG, a leading independent broker and financial technology provider, today announced the hiring of Ruben Costa-Santos as Director and Head of FX and Andre Nogueira as a Director on the Analytics Team.

NICE  announced the release of the market’s first continuous delivery workforce management solution, EVOLVE WFM. The cloud-based solution brings NICE’s leading enterprise-class workforce management technologies to the small- to mid-sized contact center market.

SWIFT announces today that HSBC is the first customer to use its new FX Business Insights information service. The new FX service from SWIFT allows its customers to continuously measure their FX business performance and make more informed strategic decisions, based on metrics derived from actual transactions rather than survey-based information.

Niu Solutions, the leading provider of secure cloud solutions to regulated industries, has today announced a strategic partnership with one of the nation’s leading managed security providers, Alert Logic, to further enhance its security offering in the cloud. 

Thames Card Technology Ltd has expanded its retransfer manufacturing capabilities in response to market demand for the production of co-branded or personalised cards from program managers, issuers and card processors. The new hardware, a combination of XID 8300 and XID 9300 machines, reduces the time to market and cost of producing a range of bespoke cards by 50%.

Dassault Systèmes , the 3DEXPERIENCE Company, world leader in 3D design software, 3D Digital Mock Up and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions,  announced the launch of “Perfect Order,” an industry solution experience for natural resources that helps mining companies improve supply chain efficiency and profitability. “Perfect Order” offers digital end-to-end supply chain management capabilities for more visibility, control and predictability across operations.

Barclays has provided financing to Ethos, the unified communications specialists, to support its acquisition of London Graphic Systems (LGS).

Supported by a term facility from Barclays Corporate Banking, Ethos has made LGS the third acquisition into its managed print business in the last 12 months, following the purchase of Peterborough based Walters in September 2015, and Feltham’s Copiertec in June this year.

Ethos and LGS have been trading for over 20 years, and during that time both organisations have developed a reputation as leaders in their respective fields.

SWIFT announces today it has successfully completed the first phase of the global payments innovation (gpi) initiative pilot, clearing the way for the go-live of the service in early 2017.

During the pilot, 15 global banks representing more than 30 percent of cross-border payments successfully tested the design and core functions of the gpi, while in parallel, ten additional global banks started to prepare for the service’s launch.

Over the past two years an unprecedented $25bn has been pumped into the global fintech market and it looks like this is just the beginning. According to a recent Accenture report, Q1 2016 saw a 67 per cent year-on-year increase in global fintech investment. That’s a $5.3bn injection of funds over just three short months.[1]