eVestment, the leader in institutional investment data and analytics, has expanded the data in its Public Plan IQ solution to include information from United Kingdom local government pension schemes (LGPS), giving Public Plan IQ users around the world unique and unprecedented insights into the U.K.’s LGPS industry.

Regulations and rising financial literacy are boosting card acceptance globally, with strong growth potential remaining in mature markets as well as in traditionally high cash usage regions

Regulations pushing card acceptance in both emerging and developed markets

EPAM Systems, Inc., a leading global provider of digital platform engineering and software development services, today announced its acquisition of Continuum, an innovation design firm headquartered in Boston with studios in Milan, Seoul, and Shanghai. Continuum partners with Fortune 500 clients in the healthcare, financial services, travel and hospitality, and consumer products industries to deliver value through four practices: Strategy, Physical/Digital Design, Technology and Made Real Lab.

Small and Medium enterprises (SMEs) are the backbone of the world’s economy, yet they remain largely ignored by the industry and governments when it comes to developing new technology solutions or policies for global trade.

Yolt, the smart thinking money app owned by ING, is currently enabling up to 100 users, from RBS, Natwest and Ulster bank, per day, to benefit from Open Banking, the new regulation that allows customers to own their banking data.

Wolters Kluwer’s Finance, Risk & Reporting business is hosting a Current Expected Credit Loss (CECL) Mock Earnings Call at next week’s 2nd Edition CECL 2018 Congress, organized by The Center for Financial Professionals. The conference, to be held at the New York Marriott Downtown on March 21^st and 22^nd, is sponsored by Wolters Kluwer and will be attended by leading banks who will share their experience of CECL modelling, providing an update on progress made towards CECL implementation.

A global leader in corporate and consumer foreign exchange solutions, OANDA recently announced a collaboration with Dell Boomi™, a leading provider of cloud integration and workflow automation software, to offer the OANDA Exchange Rates API Connector to all Dell Boomi™ customers.

Today, Valuable Capital Group, part of the SINA Corporation Group, and Saxo Bank, the leading Fintech specialist focused on multi-asset trading and investment, announce an agreement to form a new partnership. The two parties will cooperate to provide diversified, convenient and professional global investment services leveraging Saxo Bank’s unique trading technology and access to global capital markets.

 Ethoca, the industry standard for collaboration-based technology solutions that enable card issuers and online merchants to increase card acceptance and stop ecommerce fraud and disputes, today announced the launch of its new Integrated Solution Suite. When adopted at full scale across the industry, Ethoca’s suite of products – including Ethoca Eliminator, Ethoca Alerts and Enhanced Representments – can mitigate up to 90% of chargebacks from genuine fraud, friendly (or first-party) fraud and false claims.