Kickstart Accelerator, one of Europe’s largest, multi-corporate and zero equity start-up accelerator programmes, is holding Office Hours at this year’s Sibos conference in collaboration with Innotribe.

Misys today unveiled its Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) strategy, which will see the company open up its FusionFabric platform and core systems to third parties to drive innovation and collaboration across financial services.

SWIFT announces the successful migration of Euroclear’s ESES CSDs, VP SECURITIES and VP LUX and their respective communities to live operations on T2S using its Value Added Network (VAN) Solution for T2S.

NMI, a payments enablement technology company, today announced that SwIPe, an EMV® chip card solution, has been certified on TSYS processing platforms. The combination of NMI’s SwIPe software and EMV software development kit (SDK), coupled with smart terminals and TSYS certification enables rapid deployment of innovative and easy-to-use chip card solutions. NMI’s Independent Sales Organization (ISO), Value-Added Reseller (VAR) and Integrated Software Vendor (ISV) customers benefit from access to industry-leading EMV chip card technologies.

Coupa Software, a leader in cloud-based spend management solutions, announced today that House of HR will roll-out Coupa’s Procure to Pay (P2P) solution across its European markets - Belgium, The Netherlands, France, Germany, Poland, Portugal, Switzerland and Romania.

TCF National Bank (TCF Bank), a subsidiary of TCF Financial Corporation (NYSE: TCB), today announced the availability of its new chip-enabled TCF Debit Card with contactless payment capability. The enhanced debit card enables consumers to make purchases more quickly and securely at payment terminals, while still providing the same convenient access to cash and purchases.

Temenos, the software specialist for banking and finance, together with Ovum, the technology research and advisory firm, today shared the results of their Corporate Treasurers survey, which canvassed the opinions of 200 corporate treasurers across the globe.

The survey, which offers insight at regional and industry level, focuses on larger corporates current challenges and needs around four key areas: cash and liquidity, forecasting and analytics, risk and compliance and cost and efficiency. 

KKR announced the appointment of Paul Yang, current President and CEO of China Development Financial Corporation (“CDFC”) as Head of Greater China, effective January 2017.

The appointment follows KKR’s recent announcement that it would expand its Asia-Pacific leadership team with the addition of senior investment talent in China, Singapore and Korea. In particular, Zhen Ji recently joined as a Managing Director of KKR China from CITIC Capital. The team build-out prepares KKR for its next decade of investing in Asia-Pacific.

Synechron Inc., a global financial services consulting and technology services provider, has today announced the launch of its Blockchain Accelerator Program that includes its first six blockchain applications available in the cloud. These applications enable financial services firms to be up-and-running on a blockchain network or in a ‘sandbox’ environment within weeks.

Equiniti, a leading provider of specialist software products and services for financial services firms, today announces that it has entered into an agreement to provide its Core Pancredit technology to Axcess Financial Europe (AFE), for its new online portal Square Today.  Square Today is a new lender in the UK loans market providing customers with simple, easy to manage short term loans.