Already a long-time customer of Diebold, Incorporated's (NYSE: DBD) best-in-class services and technology, ALMA Bank, a New York-based financial institution, is introducing Diebold's innovative Mobile Cash Access software solution to enable consumers to initiate automated teller machine (ATM) transactions with a mobile device.

Atom Bank, the UK’s first digital bank, has selected SunGard as its integrated treasury and risk management platform.

I have been following the Symphony story with interest and the recent news that Google’s parent company, Alphabet, is looking to invest certainly got my attention. Is this the sound of the mighty Google taking its first lumbering steps into the world of capital markets, or just another of the many investments that Google makes? More importantly, what does this do to help Symphony?

Looking at the latest changes regarding accuracy of business clocks, now reincarnated as RTS 25, I noticed a number of interesting points in the text. Most importantly, the absence of the usual clause “…applies from 3rd January 2017″, with just the generic phrase stating that the rules will “enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication”. Is this an accidental omission, I wonder?

Ullink, a global provider of market leading electronic trading and connectivity solutions to the financial community, today announced that SinoPac Securities, a leading securities firm in the Asia Pacific region, has chosen Ullink’s low-latency Direct Market Access solution to access the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and Singapore Derivatives Exchange, together with Ullink’s comprehensive pre-trade Risk Management solution UL Iris.

ICICI Bank, India’s largest private sector bank, launched a service to enable customers to make electronic payments from their smartphones at physical stores, e-commerce and other deliveries at home, radio taxis, and utility billers, among others.

This service is based on ‘mVisa’, a new mobile payment solution from Visa. ICICI Bank claims to be the first bank globally to launch a mobile app-based ‘mVisa’ solution for consumers and merchants.

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Rapid Addition, a leading provider of trading technology has entered an agreement to acquire the business, assets and employees of DET Technologies, a provider of low latency hub and monitoring software to support electronic trading. The acquisition will deliver a world leading, real-time platform for buy- and sell-side financial institutions.

Profile Software, an international financial solutions provider, announced today the effectiveness of its strategic approach to the Swiss Financial market with the addition of new clients and users of its product range as well as new partnerships that aim to reach new business opportunities in the country.

Nucleus Software will be participating at Sibos 2015. During the event, which takes place in Singapore from 12th to 15th October the company will present its newly launched next-generation integrated transaction banking product, FinnAxia 2.0.