The World Islamic Banking Conference (WIBC), considered by many as the Islamic financial services industry’s compass for over two decades, continues to live up to its reputation after officially announcing today that its 22nd annual edition will provide industry leaders with a unique opportunity to critically assess Islamic finance’s 40-year history.

Today, NOREXECO ASA is set to start exchange services for the pulp and paper industry, becoming the world´s only derivatives exchange for this sector.

Kashing! an all-in-one solution for payments everywhere, is proud to announce a new partnership with online booking and management provider Guestlink.

The multi-year deal worth £50 million, provides Guestlink’s client base of Boutique Hotel and BnB managers with the ability to access all modes of payments including ecommerce, mcommerce, MOTO and face to face facilities.

Globally, the inclusion of Liquidity Risk as the fourth dimension in Basel reporting has resulted in an increased focus on Liquidity Reporting and its alignment to the LCR framework. The Basel Committee for Banking Supervision (BCBS) has specified two key metrics to measure the health of financial institutions from a liquidity perspective – LCR (Liquidity Coverage Ratio) and NSFR (Net Stable Funding Ratio).

ACE Software Solutions (ACE), a leading global provider of intelligent financial transaction management and sanctions compliance technology for banks and corporates, has today announced a solution for corporates to help manage sanctions risk  to protect against financial loss and reputational risk. The new solution, Pelican Sanctions is being unveiled at Eurofinance 23-25 September, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Fiserv, Inc. (NASDAQ: FISV), a leading global provider of financial services technology solutions, announced today the introduction of AML Risk Manager for Casinos. This is the newest solution in the Compliance and Fraud Management portfolio from Fiserv and provides risk monitoring and anti-money laundering (AML) compliance intended for the casino industry.

‘Platform’ is a lovely, polysemous word – it projects lots of meanings.

Whilst the general public may think of flares and big shoes (or is it me?), IT and operations experts will think about hardware, while for developers it may conjure up programming environments, for media types perhaps games and viewing formats, and bankers are more likely to think about mobile device types or communities of users.

- RIMES, the leading provider of managed data services for the buy-side, will host its third annual Data Governance Conference in London on the 24^th November. It is the only event exclusively dedicated to data governance for asset managers and asset owners.

The conference gives industry professionals an opportunity to share insights and discuss trends as a result of the increasing data management challenges facing the buy-side community. The conference delivers a combination of presentations and opportunities to engage in discussion on key industry topics with peers.

Stratus Technologies, Inc., the leading provider of availability solutions, today announced the next generation of its everRun^® software and ftServer^® platform solutions to meet growing customer demand for always-on availability.