The world changes every day, and some of us feel it changes faster every day. This is evidenced by the rapid cycle change in Fintech where last year's hardly mentioned thing has become this year's hot thing. Blockchain is the case in point. However, as pointed out at Fintech Connect this week, most of this start-up furore is just diddly-squat when compared with the massive size of the incumbent financial industry.

 Borsa Istanbul and Nasdaq (Nasdaq:NDAQ) have announced that Borsa Istanbul has officially gone live on nine of Nasdaq's market-leading technologies including trading and clea

Tinubu Square, a leader in credit risk software solutions, has announced the opening of a new office in Montreal, Canada. This development follows the expansion of Tinubu’s business in North America, which was recently augmented with the opening of an office in New York. The ‘on-the-ground’ presence of the company will help it to further expand its interests in North America.

 Gem, a leading blockchain platform provider, presents two new digital channels to connect, educate, and inform on distributed ledger technology.

 Fiserv, Inc. (NASDAQ: FISV), a leading global provider of financial services technology solutions, was recently named Technology Provider of the Year at the 2015 Payments Awards. Now in its third year, the Payments Awards are organized by fintech publications FStech and Retail Systems to recognize cards and payments excellence and technology innovation over the past year. Fiserv was named the winner from among five other shortlisted companies.

SWIFT announces a global payments innovation initiative to dramatically improve the customer experience in correspondent banking by increasing the speed, transparency and predictability of cross-border payments.

Designed in collaboration with the industry, the initiative will initially focus on a business-to-business payments service supported by participating banks in early 2016.

Financial IT speaks to Vijay Oddiraju, CEO, Volante Technologies at Sibos 2015

Financial IT speaks to Fiona Hamillton, Vice President Euroope and Asia, Volante Technologies at Sibos 2015

Financil IT speaks to Nadish Lad,  Head of Payments Product, Volante Technologies at Sibos 2015