Zafin, the leader in relationship banking software solutions for the global financial services industry, announced today that it has been named one of North America’s fastest growing technology companies.

The distinguished technology awards program celebrates leadership, innovation, and rapid growth in the Canadian and North American technology sectors, based on the percentage of revenue growth over the past four years. Zafin ranked 28, on the Canadian Fast 50™ List and 219 on the North American Fast 500 ™ List with a 343 percent increase in revenue growth from 2011 to 2014.

 Vector ITC Group has signed a partnership agreement with Sequent Software, the platform bringing cards to mobile, to add key tokenization, on-device security, NFC and HCE capabilities to the Vector ITC Group Air Wallet Financial Product. The Vector ITC Group and Sequent have made a strategic alliance to integrate and deploy its technology solutions in financial institutions for both the Spanish and Latin American markets.

 SunGard has received two 2015 Insurance Risk awards for “Best Actuarial Modelling Software” for its Prophetactuarial modelling solutions, and “Best Data Management Service Provider” specifically for its Prophet Data Management Platform. The awards were announced at a reception on November 11^th in London.

Earlier this week ESMA called for delays to the MiFID II implementation deadline. So it’s goodbye to punishing timelines and we can all get our lives back!

Hot of the press research by the Yorkshire Building Society (YBS) suggests that around 405,000 ISA savers could choose to use crowdlending (P2P), as it becomes part of the ISA family in 2016. This marks a huge number of people entering into the crowdlending market. The research, which was conducted this year, also highlighted two other key statistics.

 Varonis Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRNS), the leading provider of software solutions for unstructured, human-generated enterprise data, today detailed how its DatAdvantage for Windows and DatAdvantage for SharePointsolutions help 

 Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (NYSE:BR) has acquired privately-held investment accounting solutions provider QED Financial Systems, Inc. QED provides software-based investment accounting solutions, data management and outsourced investment accounting services to more than 40 institutional investors and asset managers who together have more than $1.5 trillion in assets under management.