Ingram Micro Inc. (NYSE: IM) today announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire certain assets from Parallels Holdings Ltd. ("Parallels"), a leading provider of commercial cloud management platform technologies, connectors, billing systems and professional services. Under the terms of the transaction, Ingram Micro will acquire the Parallels Odin Service Automation platform along with associated cloud management technologies, intellectual property and the Odin brand.

 Percona, the company that delivers enterprise-class MySQL(R) and MongoDB(R) solutions and services, today announced a partnership with VividCortex, the first unified suite of performance monitoring tools specifically designed for today's high performance databases.

 Jack Henry & Associates, Inc is a leading provider of technology solutions and payment processing services primarily for the financial services industry.

2015 has been a fantastic year for BIAN, overall we are aiming for all of our members to work together to build and promote a common architectural framework for banking interoperability issues.

Expedient, a provider of information technology cloud infrastructure services, successfully earned an Attestation of Compliance (AOC) for its Report on Compliance (ROC), in support of hosted client credit card data environments. Validation of compliance and publication of this documentation is conducted annually pursuant to the PCI DSS standard.

nCino, the leader in cloud banking, announced today that Augusta, Ga.-based Georgia Bank & Trust has selected its Bank Operating System to advance the bank’s commercial loan workflow and provide transparency across the institution.

As a set of principles, rather than hard and fast requirements, the guidelines of BCBS239 laid down by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision can present substantial challenges to compliance. One of the biggest tasks is working out what to monitor, measure and report on, as well as how to present these findings.

 Brits have been found to rely heavily on going into debt during the festive season, with one in three (31 per cent) consumers admitting to not knowing how they would pay for Christmas without incurring debt, a new study by financial technology company Intelligent Environments shows. 

The festive season is known for shopping, and 44 per cent of consumers have stated they will go into debt to pay for this year’s Christmas presents. Additionally, a quarter (26 per cent) believe they will miss at least one repayment and incur a late fee this Christmas.

Misys, the leading financial software company, has launched Misys FusionCapital, its next generation platform for capital markets, in the cloud. We are pleased to announce Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is the first partner to provide a highly secure, enterprise-grade cloud platform for clients wanting to benefit from this cloud-based solution.