TestPlant, the maker of the eggPlant range of software quality tools, today announced that it has delivered a test automation solution for Bendigo and Adelaide Bank that has achieved outstanding results. 

Temenos, the software specialist for banking and finance, today announces that Microcred Group, the provider of financial inclusion solutions to clients in Africa and China, is moving forward with a new license for Temenos MicroBanking Suite to support its strategy for growth and product diversification.

The Wirecard Group is now collaborating with topbonus, the frequent flyer program of airberlin. The deal includes a MasterCard credit card for topbonus participants in Austria. With the airberlin & NIKI MasterCard, customers can collect one award and status mile for each Euro spent on the credit card. Users can easily redeem these miles for flights with airberlin and NIKI or for additional rewards, starting with as little as 7,500 award miles.

Today Zurich will host 30 international startups at an official opening for the Kickstart Accelerator, an initiative of DigitalZurich2025. The shortlisted startups will meet the programme’s 25 corporate partners and mentors, including the French multinational insurance firm AXA, Swiss multinational financial services companies Credit Suisse and UBS, Switzerland’s largest ICT provider Swisscom, the largest food retailer and producer Migros, the largest international operating media company in Switzerland, Ringier and the global consultancy firm EY.

The time has come to stop talking about the characteristics of BLOCKCHAIN and to start realizing its promise.

This is the uncompromising view of one of the financial IT leaders whom we interviewed for this edition of Financial IT. We agree entirely.

Spectators at The Barclays will have the chance to use the latest payment technology from Mastercard throughout the course or while visiting the Mastercard Club this week in Farmingdale, NY. Concession and merchandise point of sale locations throughout the Black Course at Bethpage State Park will accept contactless payments—including the enhanced Masterpass digital payment service the company launched last month. Additionally, the public 18thGreen Bleacher and Mastercard Club will allow fans to order concessions directly to their seat using Qkr!

Horizon Software (Horizon), the leading global technology provider for electronic trading and investment management, today announced that 

 Teradata, a leading analytics solutions company, announced important new deployment options for Teradata Aster Analytics, the world’s most advanced multi-genre analytics engine:  Teradata Aster Analytics on Hadoop and Teradata Aster Analytics on Amazon Web Services (AWS).  Although previous versions of Aster Analytics required dedicated systems, now companies have the flexibility to accelerate valuable analytic insight from their data wherever it resides, building on their existing investments in Hadoop.