Alegeus, the market leader in consumer directed healthcare (CDH) solutions, today announced that Nebraska-based Union Bank & Trust (UBT) has selected the Alegeus platform to power UBT’s benefit account product offerings. In addition to supporting UBT’s existing health savings account (HSA) offering, the Alegeus partnership will enable UBT to expand its portfolio to include additional account-based products – such as flexible spending accounts (FSAs) and health reimbursement arrangements (HRAs).

IHS Markit, a world leader in critical information, analytics and solutions, today announced that Arnhem Investment Management has selected Markit Transaction Cost Analysis (Markit TCA), delivered via IRESS.

Clients of Arnhem and IRESS now benefit from enhanced pre-trade data and in depth post-trade analysis that help them better understand trading costs and demonstrate best execution. Arnhem joins a growing community of Australian buyside firms using the independent, broker-neutral, multi-asset Markit TCA.

Speakerbus, the leading provider of mission-critical voice solutions for financial institutions, today announced it has relocated to a new City office, boosting its sales and customer service efforts in the financial Square Mile.  

Apparently, I am a miscreant.  I am the one guy who managed to break PayPal.  What?  OK, here’s the story.  The next 2,000 words tell the story but, if you’d rather miss that and cut to the chase, jump to the end.

Gema​lto, the world leader in digital security, is supplying the Bank of the Philippines Islands (BPI) with EMV prepaid banking and transport cards that support beep^TM 1, a contactless ticketing system for Manila Metro.

Over 200 startups from across the world applied to Nordea’s Accelerator programme. 19 startups have now been offered to start working at Nordea’s premises in Stockholm and Helsinki from 12 September to develop their fintech ideas together with Nordea.

Rabobank recently announced that Gregory Hutton has been appointed as the new Regional Head of Project Finance, Americas, based in New York. Mr. Hutton replaces Thomas Emmons, who is leaving a career in banking to pursue other investing activities in renewable energy and sustainable infrastructure.

Mr. Hutton has been a senior member of Rabobank's New York Project Finance team since 2012 where he has played an integral role in building the Project Finance business, negotiating, managing and closing many key deals for the bank.

As the region with the greatest number of connected and digitally savvy consumers, Asia is primed for e-commerce. And SAP Ariba is helping to fuel it, providing a dynamic, digital marketplace, where buyers and sellers can find each other, collaborate together and get more than $2.5 billion in commerce done every day.

Lars Ljungälv, today Head of Region South in Swedish Banking, has been named Head of Large Corporates in Swedbanks business area Large Corporates & Institutions.

Lars Ljungälv has been working as Regional Head in Swedbank since 2014. He began his career in the independent Savings Banks-sphere, where he has been CEO of both Färs & Frosta Sparbank and Sparbanken Öresund.

KKR is making important additions to its private equity investment team in Asia, specifically a change in leadership in China and the addition of new senior investment talent in China, Singapore and Korea.