Computershare and SETL have today demonstrated Australia’s first working blockchain solution at Computershare’s annual Investor and Analyst day.

The two companies are also pleased to announce a joint initiative to establish securities ownership registers using blockchain technology.

ACI Universal Online Banker is a digital banking platform that delivers financial institutions global multilingual and multi-currency cash management solutions. The strength of ACI Universal Online Banker lies in its powerful features built within a user interface designed especially for ease of use and a technology platform with easy integration, flexibility and scalability.

Visa celebrated the 100 day milestone to the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. In its 30th year as the exclusive payment provider of the Olympic Games, Visa is creating and managing the entire payment system infrastructure and network throughout all venues including stadiums, press centers, point-of-sale (POS), the Olympic Village and Olympic Superstores. This year Visa will implement 4,000 POS terminals across key Olympic venues, as well as 11 ATMs in partnership with Bradesco.

Analytics software firm FICO (NYSE:FICO) today introduced the FICO^® Decision Management Suite 2.0, at FICO^® World 2016 in Washington, DC. The expanded, cloud-based suite of analytic tools and applications represents a major leap forward in the practice of prescriptive analytics and decision management, providing everything businesses of all sizes need to rapidly develop innovative analytic applications and improve business decision agility.

Ullink, the global provider of electronic trading and connectivity services, now provides direct connectivity to trueEX, a leading interest rate swap execution facility (SEF). Ullink’s multiprotocol connectivity platform UL Bridge will provide its clients with real-time access and efficient onboarding to the award-winning trueEX platform.

trueEX is one the fastest growing SEFs, supporting 18 currencies, made available to trade (MAT) and non-MAT swaps. To date, it has executed $1.8 trillion in trading volumes and over $10 trillion notional in post-trade services.

FIME today announces its successful collaboration with AEVI, a subsidiary of Wincor Nixdorf, to support the development and roll-out of the world’s first payment terminal product based on the Android operating system (OS). The tablet point of sale (POS) device, called‘Albert’, gives merchants a complete solution to manage a range of business functions and accept a number of different forms of secure payments. The solution is already live and in use by the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, since 2015.

OpenLink, the global leader in trading and risk management solutions to the energy, commodities, corporate, and financial services industries, today announces its selection by Etihad Airways for commodities, treasury and enterprise risk management.

Wolters Kluwer announced today that Sberbank Group, the largest banking organization in Russia, has selected the company’s OneSumX for Risk Management solution to streamline its global Treasury operations. Sberbank will use the Wolters Kluwer solution to help improve the view it holds for its risk management processes. The Financial Risk solution provides the bank’s Treasury with the means to perform dynamic simulation, market risk analysis, and liquidity risk analysis.

I regularly attend conferences where several themes crop up around disruption – that word we hate – disintermediation, and the end of banking as we know it.  The problem is I’ve heard it for 30 years and it hasn’t happened … yet.  Will it?  Let’s have a look.