IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced a new blockchain banking solution that will help financial institutions address the processes of universal cross-border payments, designed to reduce the settlement time and lower the cost of completing global payments for businesses and consumers.

INDATA, a leading industry provider of software, technology and services for buy-side firms, today announced that BTC Capital Management has implemented INDATA’s iPM Epic software suite on a front, middle and back office basis via iPM Cloud, INDATA’s private cloud solution. 

Nedbank is one of South Africa’s major banking groups, offering the full range of wholesale and retail banking services through a growing footprint across Africa. 

Horizon Software (Horizon), the leading global provider of electronic trading and investment management technology, today announced that Guohai Liangshi Capital Management Co Ltd (GHLS),the subsidiary company of Guohai Futures, has chosen Horizon’s platform for options market making and trading, as well as delta one trading.

Deutsche Bank today announced that it has launched the first paperless import payment solution in India with its TradePay system. 

Temenos (SIX: TEMN), the software specialist for banking and finance, has extended its leadership in cloud-based banking and finance software with the launch of its Payment Hub in cloud on Microsoft Azure. 

Santander InnoVentures, the fintech venture capital fund of Santander Group, announced today an investment in the Mexican startup ePesos, the mobile payments company for the underbanked. ePesos has today closed a USD 6 million investment round that will enable the company to continue growing its platform serving and supporting small and medium sized enterprises across Mexico. Other institutional investors participating in the round include VilCap Investments, Pomona Impact, and Fiinlab, the innovation lab owned by Gentera.

Lloyds Bank has today announced investment into a new real-time cash management and payments platform that will allow it to enhance its payment capabilities, become market leading in its delivery to corporate and institutional clients alongside a Group-wide investment to transform its cross-border payments capability.

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EastNets (eastnets.com), a leading provider of compliance, payment and cloud solutions for the financial services industry, will showcase en.SafeWatch PaymentGuard, an advanced real-time fraud detection solution for SWIFT payments. The product will be showcased alongside the company’s numerous anti-money laundering and financial crime and compliance risk (FCCR) solutions, at the 2017 SWIFT International Banking Operations Seminar (Sibos).