Commonwealth Bank of Australia is to launch an innovation lab in both Hong Kong and London to create a joined-up global approach to new tech initiatives across the bank.

BitGo Inc. is today announcing the launch of BitGo Instant, the world’s first way to safely receive zero-confirm Bitcoin transactions with a full financial guarantee.

Oracle Hyperion Financial Data Quality Management represents a packaged solution for finance users that helps develop standardized financial data management processes with its Web-based guided workflow user interface and powerful integration engine. Financial Data Quality Management's data preparation server can ease integrating and validating financial data from any source system.

India’s Economic Times, one of the world’s most widely read English-language business newspapers, has named FIS^™ (NYSE: FIS), a global leader in financial services technology, the Best Tech Brand in Banking & Financial Services Solutions 2015.

 ABBYY, a leading provider of document recognition, data capture, and linguistic technologies, today announced that Banque Populaire de l’Ouest, a member of France’s second largest banking group – Banque Populaire Caisses d’Épargne (BPCE) – has successfully overhauled two strategic document-based processes thanks to ADOC Solutions, an ABBYY Gold Certified Solution Partner.

Ingenico ePayments will begin processing iguama’s payments in Guatemala, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Chile, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Panama, Peru, and 
Honduras. The partnership will gradually expand to include all countries across the region, enabling all of iguama’s customers to pay for purchases using their preferred payment methods and preferred currencies.

 INDATA, a leading industry provider of software, technology and services for buy-side firms delivered via its iPM Epic platform, today announced record company growth for 2015. Growth highlights include the following:

More than 2,000 financial institutions have signed up for The Know Your Customer (KYC) Registry, SWIFT’s centralised repository which maintains a standardised set of information about financial institutions required for KYC compliance.

The Registry provides a secure, cost-effective KYC solution that enables banks to maintain and grow their correspondent network. It is used by institutions in more than 200 countries and territories, with nearly 1,150 banks in Europe, the Middle East and Africa; 325 in the Americas, and over 550 in the Asia Pacific region.

HSBC has begun trialling HSBC Nudge, a new consumer finance app designed to help customers achieve their financial goals with the help of gentle ‘nudges’.

A recent study by the London School of Economics and Politics (LSE)*, commissioned by HSBC, utilised behavioural science to explore the barriers to people achieving financial goals.  It identified that leveraging technology, such as automatic messages, was key in helping people to meet their financial ambitions. Based on the LSE research findings, the app applies nudge theory² to encourage good spending habits.