SWIFT announces today that Barclays and Navigators have successfully used the MyStandards Readiness Portal, a collaborative standards management platform that eases the client on-boarding process for financial institutions and their customers.

The MyStandards Readiness Portal allows users to test their messages against specifications and prove their ability to reach certain quality and straight-through processing rates, helping to improve the speed and accuracy of on-boarding processes.

 Accuity, the leading global provider of Payments, KYC, Risk and Compliance solutions, opened a new office in Frankfurt in August 2015 to serve its rapidly expanding client base in the Deutschland, Austria & Switzerland region.

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the premier post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, today announced the appointment of Mark Wetjen as Managing Director with responsibility for leading the firm’s global public policy function and related business and legal activities. Mr. Wetjen will join DTCC on September 28, 2015, and will be based in Washington, D.C.

 Blancco Technology Group today announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire Tabernus, a leading provider of data erasure software and hardware solutions used by organizations to completely remove data from hard drive storage devices. In addition to its numerous accreditations from NATO, US Department of Defense and CESG, Tabernus counts many of the world’s most innovative technology, finance and retail brands as global customers.

Kount, a leading provider of fraud detection and sales boosting technology has announced that it has integrated Emailage, an innovative new fraud prevention solution that gives merchants the ability to assess and leverage risk based on a user’s email address.

Starbucks Coffee Company (Nasdaq:SBUX) today announced the nationwide availability of Mobile Order & Pay on iOS and Android devices, a new feature of the popular Starbucks mobile app that allows customers to place and pay for their order in advance of their visit and pick it up at a participating Starbucks location.

 Pitney Bowes Inc. (NYSE:PBI), a global technology company that provides innovative products and solutions to power commerce, today announced that Linda Sanford has been elected a director of the corporation. On September 21 the Board expanded its size from 10 to 11 members and her appointment was effective that day to fill the vacancy.

In March 2015 it was reported that the Bank of St. Helena was looking to replace the software solutions supplied by iFinancial London. However having done extensive research the bank has decided that they will be renewing their licence with iFinancial and working with them to enhance their current offering.

Securities and corporate actions reference data specialist Exchange Data International (EDI) today announced it has added equity analytics data, Worldwide Equity Analytics, to its comprehensive securities data offering.

This new service enables clients to identify the sources of risk and returns in their portfolios and project their volatility. It comprises a customisable set of more than 60 equity derived data fields such as Average Daily Volume, Simple Moving Averages, Alpha, Beta, and R-squared.

As retailers and banks prepare for the October 1 EMV liability shift—which moves fraud liability from issuing banks to merchants —many consumers have not yet received their new chip-enabled cards, or are simply in the dark about what EMV means, according to a new survey from ACI Worldwide (NASDAQ: ACIW).