With high profile data breaches hitting the headlines, businesses are under increasing scrutiny to enhance their cybersecurity.  Data loss is no longer seen as a low-risk problem and is at the forefront of business priorities. The financial and reputational impact of falling victim to fraud is high.

Both big and small players in the financial sector have recognised passwords as a weak link in their security chains. A growing number are partnering with technology companies to implement new authentication processes, from fingerprints to iris recognition, or even full facial scans.

Lexmark today announced that its solutions are deployed in the overwhelming majority of leading banks in Europe. These solutions are helping banks to address the business challenges resulting from a rapidly transforming market sector. Lexmark is delivering solutions to 19 of the 20 largest banks in Europe by total assets (SNL Financial’s ranking of Europe’s 50 largest banks by total assets*, June, 2015), with deployments varying from hardware, software and service-based offerings.

This year Financial IT initiates a survey among the most leading technology vendors in trading (The full list of companies is enclosed). The Trading Technology Survey 2016 is aimed to measure the perception of technology buyers of the quality of products/services provided to them by technology companies, based on the final results of the questionnaire poll. Furthermore the survey is conducted to simplify decision-making process for those leads, who face a great challenge in the industry and haven't decided yet which product/service best suits their business needs on today's market.

Object Trading and G. H. Financials announced readily-available direct market access to the ASX 24.  G. H. Financials, a leader in order-routing, clearing and settlement services to the world’s derivatives markets, has become a conformed broker on the managed DMA (Direct Market Access) service platform of Object Trading, a provider of a global, multi-asset trading infrastructure.   Market participants can now easily trade on the ASX 24, with minimal onboarding times, as G. H.

Nasdaq announced today that Straits Financial is now an approved Futures Commission Merchants (FCM) for trading on Nasdaq’s U.S.-based designated contract market (DCM), which offers futures and options on key energy benchmarks, including oil, natural gas and U.S. power.

Startupbootcamp FinTech, the leading accelerator focused on financial innovation, has announced the 10 international startups selected to join its New York program. The finalists, which include teams from across the world, have been chosen by a panel of industry experts, including representatives from Startupbootcamp FinTech’s partners.

The Ukrainian National Securities and Stock Market Commission (NSSMC), the financial authority in the Ukraine, has formally endorsed the ‘ISO 20022 Harmonisation Charter’.

 b-next, a specialist provider of capital markets compliance solutions, today announced a global partnership with 

ACI Worldwide (NASDAQ: ACIW), a global provider of real-time electronic and eCommerce payment and banking solutions, announced today it will partner with Verifone (NYSE: PAY), a global provider of payments and commerce solutions, to deliver a comprehensive pan-European card payments platform for Auchan Group, one of Europe’s largest food retailers.