Digital-only challenger bank Fidor has launched its first physical product in the UK market, a contactless debit card developed with input from its online user community.
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Fidor Announces Launch of Contactless Debit Cards
Thursday, January 21, 2016 - 12:44
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Major Banks Join SWIFT’s Global Payments Innovation Initiative
SWIFT announces that 45 leading banks have signed up to its global payments innovation initiative, announced at the end of December 2015.
The 45 participating firms include major transaction banks from Europe, Asia Pacific, Africa and the Americas. More banks are expected to join this initiative in the coming months.
Thursday, January 21, 2016 - 12:37
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Elliptic Vault
Elliptic provides outsourcing of wallet security and development through its multi-signature cold storage platform.
Thursday, January 21, 2016 - 12:30
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Fiserv Buys ACI Worldwide's Community Financial Services for $200 million in Cash
ACI Worldwide is to exit the community bank and credit union market, selling its Community Financial Services business to Fiserv for $200 million in cash.
The transaction includes employees and customer contracts as well as technology assets and intellectual property.
Phil Heasley, president and CEO, ACI Worldwide, says the move enables the company to focus resources and energy on the provision of real-time electronic and e-commerce payments for large financial institutions and enablers, retailers and billers worldwide.
Thursday, January 21, 2016 - 12:17
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GEM Platform
The Gem platform provides simple and secure management of cryptocurrency wallets.
Simple: because GEM API and client libraries manage the complexity of working with a digital currency, while presenting a high level interface that is easy to use.
Secure: because Gem wallets use multi-signature and Hierarchical Deterministic Wallets with granular rulesets and multi-factor authentication.
Thursday, January 21, 2016 - 11:25
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Currencycloud Payment Engine Two
Established in early 2012, Currencycloud offers a digital toolbox of customizable payment focused APIs, enabling businesses around the globe to build payment solutions, facilitate seamless cross-border bank transfers and connect to the global economy.
Thursday, January 21, 2016 - 10:07
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Currency Cloud
Traiana and Trax Team Up to Offer Repo Matching Service
Traiana, a leading provider of pre-trade risk and post-trade processing solutions and Trax, aleading provider of capital market data, trade matching and regulatory reporting services, today announce that they have entered into a business alliance to offer the industry an interoperable Repurchase Agreement (repo) matching service to support efficient, automated, operational processes ahead of significant regulatory change.
Thursday, January 21, 2016 - 10:03
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Maitland to Act as an AIFM for Fast-growing PERE Sector
Maitland, the global advisory and fund administration firm, is now able to act as an alternative investment fund manager (AIFM) for private equity and real estate (PERE) alternative investment funds. This follows approval for MS Management Services S.A., a Luxembourg-based subsidiary of Maitland, to extend its existing AIFM licence to include PERE funds.
Thursday, January 21, 2016 - 09:40
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ACI Worldwide to Release UP Retail Payments Solution
ACI Worldwide, a leading global provider of electronic payment and banking solutions, today announced the UP Retail Payments solution.
Thursday, January 21, 2016 - 09:19
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And the MiFID II award for early guidance goes to…
Amidst the on-going rumblings about delays to MiFID II, and the budget and planning uncertainty this has created, it’s good to see that market participants continue to press on with implementation. MiFID II includes many new obligations for venues and, for investment firms, knowing what the exchanges will do fills a significant piece of the puzzle in their overall plan.
Thursday, January 21, 2016 - 08:20
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