MarketAxess Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq: MKTX), the operator of a leading electronic trading platform for fixed-income securities, and the provider of market data and post-trade services for the global fixed-income markets, today announced the appointment of Raj Paranandi as Chief Operating Officer, EMEA & APAC. The appointment is effective March 1^st, 2021. 

Visma | Onguard, the fintech company dedicated to the order-to-cash process, today announces the acquisition of Dutch scale-up, Outstanding24, taking over all activities and employees. With Outstanding24, Visma | Onguard adds an innovative cloud solution for efficiently organising debtor management for SMEs to its portfolio. This news sees the recently rebranded Visma | Onguard strengthening its position in the market whilst enabling Outstanding24 to realise its growth ambition.

Surecomp, the leading provider of global trade finance solutions for banks and corporates, today announced that South African bank Absa Group has gone live with the latest version of its back-office trade finance solution IMEX®  in 10 countries across the continent as part of their ongoing digitisation initiatives.

Revolut has announced the launch of Confirmation of Payee for its more than three million UK retail customers. This latest feature forms part of Pay.UK’s anti-fraud initiative and further bolsters Revolut’s already award-winning anti-fraud features.

ComplyAdvantage, a global data technology company transforming financial crime detection, today announced the availability of the firm’s much anticipated report The State Of Financial Crime 2021. Designed as a strategic guide for global compliance teams,thereportlays out the many emerging threats that governments and financial institutions will face in 2021, along with presc

KBC Bank, a Belgium-based bank with operations across Europe, US and Asia Pacific, has chosen Finastra to help manage its transition through the upcoming interbank references rates changes. It has selected Fusion Loan IQ Alternate Reference Rates (ARR) module to manage new rates and to expand its lending business. The bank has also opted for the Fusion LIBOR Transition Calculator to help calculate rates ahead of the transition period.

Nutanix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTNX), a leader in private cloud, hybrid, and multicloud computing, today announced the appointment of Rob Tribe as Vice President, Systems Engineering, for the Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA) region.

Accuity, the leading global provider of financial crime screening, payment services, and know your customer (KYC) solutions, has announced the availability of Bankers Almanac Enhanced Due Diligence, a new solution that will enable banks to conduct efficient and effective KYC risk assessments of their financial counterparties within a single application.