Volante Technologies Inc., a global provider of software for the integration, processing and orchestration of payments and financial messages, announced today that it has been collaborating with BNY Mellon on creating and deploying technology to enable real-time payments in the US and internationally.

 BAFT, the international financial services association, has announced its Future Leaders program class of 2018, recognising Pelican’s Hiren Shah as an upcoming leader in the transaction banking industry.

Pelican, a global provider of Artificial Intelligence powered payments and financial crime compliance solutions for banks and corporates, joins a prestigious list of global organisations with outstanding employees recognised by BAFT, including JPMorgan, HSBC, Société Generale, BNP Paribas, Deutsche Bank, Barclays, and IBM.

Cloud security pioneer, Cryptomathic, today unveils the only cloud encryption management solution to address market demand for new ‘Manage Your Own Key’ (MYOK) practices.

‘Bring Your Own Key’ (BYOK) cloud encryption solutions, which enable businesses using cloud services to generate, back up and submit their own encryption keys, have quickly gained traction among businesses that require a high level of control over their data security in the cloud. 

State Street Corporation (NYSE: STT) announced today FX Connect, its market-leading FX execution venue, will partner with trade technology software provider BestX in order to offer transaction cost analysis (TCA) solutions globally.

FlexTrade today announced the integration of the BestX trade analytics solution for FX within its FlexTRADER EMS. With a fully interactive interface, users can use BestX to analyse their FX executions in real-time, delivering transparency to enable better decision making whilst meeting the needs of MiFIDII compliance for FX trading. 

As banks and financial institutions drive to automate processes and ensure tighter integration, they are increasingly diverting their attention away from shiny, attention-grabbing customer-facing products. Instead, they are turning to the critical, but perhaps less glamorous, world of backend services infrastructure. 

Smartkarma, Asia’s largest provider of independent investment research, today announced the opening of its New York City office, headed by 30-year industry veteran Warren Yeh. Smartkarma is well positioned to expand into American markets after recently completing its Series B funding round, led by Sequoia Capital. With a base in New York, Smartkarma aims to bring unprecedented on-the-ground reach and insight into Asian markets for US-based asset managers.

eCurrency Mint Limited (eCurrency) announced today that it has partnered with Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation (RCBC) to launch its digital money product. 

SharedLabs, Inc. and ExoIS, Inc. on Friday announced they have completed a definitive agreement under which SharedLabs has acquired all of the stock of ExoIS  for an undisclosed sum.  ExoIS will continue to operate as a wholly-owned subsidiary of SharedLabs until full integration is completed. Integration is expected to be completed within the first quarter of 2018.  Jonathan Clark, Founder of ExoIS, will report to John Andrews, COO of SharedLabs, Inc. Jason Cory, CEO and Chairman of the board, fully supports this transaction.

Duco, the data engineering technology company, today announced the completion of a $28m investment round by Insight Venture Partners, NEX Opportunities and Eight Roads Ventures. The round also includes an investment by lifetime entrepreneur and former CEO of SunGard, Cristóbal Conde.