Today Alveo announces support for Postgres within its Prime financial data aggregation and mastering product. This increased support of open source technologies will facilitate clients running Prime in the cloud, allowing them to reduce their operating costs. Postgres has been proven to reduce overall annual infrastructure running cost by up to 65% [1].

As warnings intensify for the regulation of digital assets across the UK and Europe, Gibraltar is adding to its already regulated digital ledger technology (DLT) framework with the development of a ‘10th Core Principle’, specifically for digital asset exchanges. 

Phoebus Software Limited (PSL) and Financial Services Horizons (FSH) have entered into an exclusive strategic partnership agreement. This is the latest partnership between Phoebus and a number of different companies to form part of the growing Phoebus digital ecosystem. Phoebus’ digital ecosystem has been designed to offer additional value to both new and existing clients. 

Global information and insights provider TransUnion has appointed two non-executive directors (NEDs) to its UK board, demonstrating its commitment to strong corporate governance as the business pursues its growth agenda.
 
In their new roles, Margot Cronin, who will act as chair, and Jonathan Baum will promote the long-term sustainable success of the company, providing constructive challenge, strategic guidance and specialist advice to the UK board and management executives.
 

Volante Technologies, the global leader in cloud payments and financial messaging, and Citi Treasury and Trade Solutions (Citi) are deepening their longstanding relationship to accelerate the bank’s adoption of the ISO 20022 financial messaging standard across its global payments operations.

BMLL, the award-winning data and analytics company, today announced that BMLL Data Feed will be available to sell side participants on the Kx Streaming Analytics platform. Kx is a leading provider of streaming data analytics, serving the majority of the world’s Tier 1 global banks.

The 2021 AI international junior contest is accepting entries from schoolchildren. Organized by Sber jointly with the AI Alliance companies. The contest has a mission to popularize artificial intelligence among children and young people, as well as engage and support children with outstanding AI talents worldwide.

AlgoTrader today announced that Finab EOS VC Fund has invested a seven-digit amount into the company. This investment enlarges the company’s Series A round to CHF 5.2 million. The Series A round is led by Credit Suisse Entrepreneur Capital Ltd. joined by investiere, Blockchain Valley Ventures, and NeueCapital.

Good value for money is a top priority for shoppers this year, with two thirds (67%) suggesting it has become more important since the start of the pandemic. That’s according to new research by Klarna, which surveyed over 4,000 consumers across Europe, the UK, the USA and Australia to understand how shopping behaviour has changed over the past twelve months. 

Worldline [Euronext: WLN], the European market leader in payment and transactional services, has announced a strategic co-operation with Gold Global Currency Corp. SA (“Gold Global”), to offer the DaVinci Gold token based on Worldline’s stablecoins management infrastructure. This initiative further expands the capability of Worldline’s Digital Asset Management (DAM) platform and will assist towards fulfilling the company’s goals to be in the forefront of stablecoins and Blockchain technology.