iMeta Technologies Ltd., a leader in Onboarding and Client Lifecycle management technology for financial institutions, announces the launch of Assassin Connectivity as part of the in-built capability of its Assassin platform.

Innovative cloud accountancy software provider FreeAgent has joined forces with one of the UK’s leading accounting specialists for contractors and freelancers to help its clients stay on top of their business finances.

The evolution of e-commerce constantly reminds me of the old (1929) song, "Wedding Bells are Always Breaking Up that Old Gang of Mine." Wedding bells, strategic alliances; "plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose."

NetOTC, provider of innovative risk solutions, today announced that David Maloy has been appointed COO with immediate effect.  David Maloy, previously responsible for overseeing NetOTC’s US operations, is now also responsible for the strategy, management and development of NetOTC’s global operations. 

SimCorp, a leading provider of investment management solutions and services for the global financial services industry, has released version 5.9 of SimCorp Dimension, the first of two annual releases. Along with numerous other modules, new features, and further integration across the entire value chain, the release introduces new advanced additions to SimCorp’s Asset Manager.

A new paper from the SWIFT Institute published today highlights the many uses of big data analytics by financial organisations to meet evolving regulatory and compliance requirements.   

 In order to compete with the largest banks, more and more community institutions are making investments to advance their digital banking and payments capabilities. This industry trend is good news for FIS™ (NYSE: FIS), a global leader in financial services technology.

DigitalRoute, the leading provider of enterprise data management since 1999, today announced that the big data integrator solution will be added to the global reseller agreement with SAP (NYSE: SAP). The SAP(R) Big Data Integrator solution by DigitalRoute enhances the SAP portfolio for the telecommunications industry by enabling the real-time integration of network and operations support systems (OSS) data. The solution will help communications service providers (CSPs) to more effectively leverage their network data so they can increase revenues and reduce costs.

Santander Consumer USA appoints Richard Morrinhas as Chief Operating Officer.  

Mr. Morrin has a decades-long career in the financial services sector and is a tenured member of the SC management team. He previously held the role of Executive Vice President of New Business at SC, a position he held since 2011. Prior to joining SC, Mr. Morrin held a variety of management positions in 21 years of combined service at Ally Financial and General Motors Acceptance Corp.

The Japanese exchange trading markets are following in the footsteps of the Australain Securities Exchange and Nasdaq, which last week advanced plans to test the use of blockchain technology for post-trade settlement and proxy voting respectively.

In a statement, JPX says it will conduct PoC test in cooperation with IBM Japan to "evaluate the limits and possibilities of the technology in markets that have low transaction data volume".