Today’s banker-bashing culture may be in transition, depending on whether the reforms put in place by government, regulators and the Bank of England will be able to change the public’s opinion of banks. Whatever the impact of these new rules, their main purpose is to prevent another cataclysm, not to repair the relationship between banks and their customers.

The European Central Bank has selected SIA, in partnership with Colt, for its connection to TARGET2-Securities (T2S), the new centralised European platform for the settlement of domestic and cross-border securities transactions.

The European Central Bank is expected to migrate to SIA and Colt’s value-added network infrastructure in June 2016. The two companies will also provide the ECB with a message processing solution based on INTERCOPE’s BOX Messaging Hub, facilitating the integration of ECB’s application software to the TARGET2-Securities central platform.

Horizon Software, has been shortlisted for Best Trading System for the prestigious FStech Awards 2016. Winners will be announced during a ceremony held on March 17th at the London Mariott Hotel.

The 11th Annual World Takaful Conference (WTC 2016) will be held on the 11th and 12th of April 2016 at the Dusit Thani in partnership with the leading takaful companies from from the GCC, Southeast Asia, Africa and Europe. The Forum is set to gather more than 250 Takaful professionals from around the world comprising of policy makers, dignitaries, central bank representatives, heads of insurance supervision, CEOs of the largest Takaful companies, thought leaders and experts in research, bankers, academia and Shariah scholars.

 BCA Research, a leading provider of independent investment research, today announced it has partnered with FiscalNote, a technology startup building a revolutionary platform for analyzing government risk, to integrate U.S. policy data and analysis onto BCA’s digital platform BCA Edge.

Misys, the leading financial software company, today announced that it has been selected by Trade Bank of Iraq (TBI) as a strategic partner to assist the bank in upgrading to a next generation digital platform in order to gain a competitive edge in Iraq’s growing banking industry.

NovitasPartners and FTCL, two boutique corporate finance firms specialising in the fintech sector, today announce their merger to meet the growing demand for corporate finance advisory services from clients within the payments, data, financial software, market infrastructure, business process outsourcing, and securities services subsectors.

Global Financial Settlement Solutions Provider Ripple to Sponsor Corporate Financial Supply Chain Innovations Event in Greater Copenhagen April 26-27, 2016.

Bank of America Merrill Lynch is tops in Europe.

Is MiFID II really going to force investment firms to pass around huge amounts of personal, identifiable information? Will competitors and counterparties learn way too much about your business? While many of these concerns may be overblown, there are some valid points to consider.