Demonstrating its growing reputation for delivering pan-European innovative payment solutions, Raphaels Bank Payment Services, has signed a partnership deal with European start-up Avuba.

The new deal will see Raphaels Bank, a market player in the emerging payments market, support the launch of an alternative payment account from Avuba for consumers in Europe.

Tokai Tokyo Securities (Asia) Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Tokai Tokyo Financial Holdings, Inc., has gone live in Hong Kong with Asian trading platform from Fidessa group plc as a fully outsourced service.

Codit Group, a joint venture between Belgian Codit and Dutch Axon Olympus, is opening Codit United Kingdom. This marks Codit Group's next step towards expanding its international presence outside its established markets of Belgium, the Netherlands, France and Portugal, and its recent opening of Codit Switzerland mid-April. The new local office in the United Kingdom will be led by Tim Lewis.

Financial IT speaks to Kevin Houstoun, Chairman of Rapid Addition about the latest company's goals and the ongoing changes in trading industry.

Teleena, a global IoT and MVNO enabler, announced a strategic partnership with Airfi, a global connectivity service provider to the IoT sector. The new strategic partnership will enable a diverse range of IoT solutions for its customers by simplifying both the technical and commercial aspects of deploying cellular connected products across a seamless global footprint of 206 countries and over 460 mobile networks. 

Horizon Software focuses on front-office solutions for trading in capital markets, and all other types of business related to listed markets. Our solutions are highly engineered and help financial institutions to achieve their performance and target. It’s nothing like any commoditized trading solution; I like to call it sophisticated because of a certain level of complexity. Depending on the type of products clients are trading, we offer a variety of algorithmic capabilities to trade on the market.

Red Hat, Inc., the provider of open source solutions, and Telefonica Business Solutions, a provider of a wide range of integrated communication solutions for the B2B market, signed an agreement establishing Red Hat Mobile Application Platform as the global reference platform for operators within the Telefonica Group to mobilize the business processes of its customers on their path to digital transformation.

Itiviti’s client connectivity solution provides HUB24 with a rich suite of product functionality based on the Catalys FIX Engine. It ensures highly available quality connectivity and an integrated dashboard for real-time monitoring and system configuration management. Itiviti’s Services team has also developed a custom technology adaptor for integration with HUB24’s investment and superannuation platform.

New research published by the SWIFT Institute investigates the practical application of blockchain (or mutual distributed ledger) technologies in securities markets.