The explosion of data, whether social media, transaction data, mobile or other types of unstructured data, through numerous digital and print channels, is making financial information management really challenging.

Enhanced extended remittance information service successfully activated in the pan-European retail payment system EBA CLEARING announced the activation of an enhanced extended remittance information service on its pan-European automated clearing house platform STEP2. The new service, which took up operations yesterday, supports the inclusion of up to 999 structured invoice and credit note references in a single SEPA Credit Transfer.

Fire Financial Services is now processing over £1 million worth of payments every month in the twelve months since Colm Lyon sold Realex to Global Payments.

Marking a milestone in its transformation, global financial markets technology and service provider, IPC Systems, Inc. today launched their new brand identity and focus on ‘Connecting Opportunities.’ The rebrand follows its acquisition of Etrali Trading Solutions earlier this year.  It represents a strategic evolution reflecting an enhanced focus on customer solutions in the areas of compliance and regulatory adherence, the financial markets community, and communications.

Cheryl Nash, president, Investment Services of Fiserv, has been appointed to the advisory board of Envestnet Institute On Campus (EIOC) and named executive leader for the Institute’s new ‘Women in Wealth Management’ program. The program is designed to attract college-age women to wealth management careers in order to increase gender diversity in the industry.

Infront, provider of modern terminals for global market data, analytics and trading, today announced at TechTrade Europe the integration of Symphony Communications, LLC's platform with the Infront Terminal. The integration combines compliant messaging with the flexibility, speed, and mobility of the Infront terminal. 

Despite an increase in information security spend, the unfortunate truth is that cyber-crime continues to grow – both in profile and in prevalence. According to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), there were 2.5 million cybercrimes committed in the UK in 2015.

SmartStream Technologies, the Transaction Lifecycle Management (TLM^®) specialist, today announce the appointment of Naren Patel to head the Strategic Account Management for the Corona Business Unit (CBU) based in London.

Naren Patel will be key a part of the European sales team, reporting to Marcus von Rahden, Head of Sales Europe, Corona Business Unit, he will be responsible for all aspects of business development and strategic account management in the UK, Ireland, Scandinavia, Belgium, Netherlands and Israel. 

 Volante Technologies Inc., a global leader in the provision of software for the integration, processing and orchestration of financial messages and payments, today announced the signing of a partnership agreement with Payfessional. The partnership will see Volante’s VolPay suite of payment integration and processing products delivered to the Turkish and regional financial markets.