Morgan Advanced Materials, a world leader in advanced materials technology that operates in more than 50 countries, has signed with Tungsten Corporation plc (LSE:TUNG), the global electronic invoicing, analytics and invoice financing company, to bring greater efficiencies to its accounts payable (AP) processes.

Orc, a global leader in trading technology, today announced they have expanded coverage of the Canadian markets to include the Aequitas NEO Exchange, a newly launched Canadian stock market. Orc clients looking for new opportunities can leverage connectivity for order routing and market data to the Aequitas Lit Book and NEO BookTM.

 Basware, the global leader in purchase-to-pay (P2P) and e-invoicing solutions, has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. as a “Leader” in its 2015 Magic Quadrant for Procure-to-Pay Suites for Indirect Procurement* report. This is the first year that such a Magic Quadrant has been created by Gartner.

Gresham Computing plc, a leading provider of transaction control solutions, today announced the launch of Clareti Transaction Control (CTC) Transaction Reporting. The solution allows financial institutions (FIs) to verify and validate that trades reported to trade repositories comply with the requirements of regulations for eligible trades under Dodd Frank, EMIR, REMIT, G20, MiFID and MiFIR.

The partnership will enable gaming operators that use Play‘n Go to support a broader range of payment methodologies and currencies, as well as offer a more customised gaming experience, in-app payments and so forth. 

International Card Services (ICS), the largest credit card issuing business in the Benelux region with 3.5m customers, has adopted a new commercial credit card app from its processing partner Tieto.

New data from FICO (NYSE:FICO), the predictive analytics and decision management software company, showed that late credit card payments have continued to decline in the UK, reaching the lowest point in more than two years. FICO's analysis of around 80 percent of all credit cards issued in the UK showed a continued decline in the percentage of accounts that are delinquent, matched by a decline in the balances that are delinquent.

CardFlight, a leader in mobile point of sale (POS) technology announced today the availability of EMV-ready chip card readers for its SwipeSimple mobile point of sale solution. The United States is in the process of migrating to the EMV chip card standard, with a liability shift occurring in October 2015 that provides incentives for merchants to upgrade their payment terminals to devices capable of reading chip cards.

OptionsCity Software, a global provider of electronic trading solutions for professional futures and options traders, today announced the full release of its modular trading platform, Metro NOW. Metro NOW offers professional traders, financial institutions, hedge funds, banks, and commodity trading houses a customizable and scalable futures and options-trading platform, deployed seamlessly via the web.

When we consider mobile payments, we often misjudge customers’ willingness to embrace adoption. This is because mobile devices are only the start of a new customer journey. Customers are not switching to mobile payments just because they prefer using smartphones. They are doing so because mobile payments offer integrated value-added services, such as reward programs, couponing and ticketing, which substantially enhance the overall customer experience.

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