The way big businesses in the financial services sector discover and implement innovation is shifting, with the launch of venture teams, accelerator panels and internal ‘incubators’ bringing a start-up mentality to corporate organisations. Big businesses are embracing this concept of ‘intrapreneurship’, an entrepreneurial approach where teams and individuals are driving new venture ideas from within the organisation, according to Peter Sayburn, co-founder of Market Gravity, the proposition design consultancy. 

Saxo Bank, the online multi-asset trading and investment specialist, announces today a new co-Branded Introducing Broker (IB)  partnership with Bank of Valletta, the largest commercial bank in Malta.
 

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BlackBerry and Barclays Bank announce partnership to enable P2P money transfers via the UK bank's Pingit application over the BBM messaging service.

 Regal Financial Group has implemented portfolio management reporting and trading software from Envestnet | Tamarac's web-based Advisor® Xi platform for independent RIAs (http://www.tamaracinc.com/Advisor.aspx).

Capgemini, one of the world's foremost providers of consulting, technology and outsourcing services, announced today the acquisition of Fahrenheit 212, an innovation strategy and design firm. This transaction will augment the capabilities of the Group's global strategy and transformation consulting organization, Capgemini Consulting, to provide new innovation, business transformation and digital customer experience solutions.

Broadridge Financial Solutions enhanced its corporate governance solution offering in Europe by taking a minority stake and entering into an exclusive distribution  and marketing alliance with AMA Partners, B.V. (AMA).

Last night, Secure Trading attended the Merchant Payment Ecosystem Awards (MPE Awards) in Berlin, one of the most prestigious events in the payments industry, and was delighted to be awarded the PSP Award.

Forming part of the MPE annual conference in Berlin, the MPE Awards is now in its sixth year and is one of the most sought after industry accolades. Recognising the outstanding role of card acquirers, processors, PSPs and solution providers, it aims to honour exemplarity and innovative payment providers that are helping to move the industry forward.

The P2P and crowdfunding industry was worth £3.2bn in 2015, according to the new University of Cambridge and Nesta report published this week. That sounds good, but what does it actually mean? We’ve done the hard work for you and pulled out the top five things from the report.

FIME announces today that its Japanese laboratory is the first in the country to be accredited by JCB to perform functional testing on contactless payment terminal kernels, in line with its Book C-5 specification which relates to the JCB’spayment scheme. Global manufacturers of contactless payment terminals and mobile point of sale (mPOS) devices, in addition to kernel developers, can now validate the compliance of their products in FIME’s Taiwanese and Japanese laboratories.