Volante Technologies Inc., a global leader in the provision of software for the integration, processing and orchestration of financial messages, data and payments, today announced the launch of VolPay Hub, the third in the VolPay suite of products dedicated to enabling accelerated payments integration and processing orchestration. 

The digital payments domain is an extremely dynamic and diverse market. It continues to experience significant growth, not only in the number of new processors and disruptive competitors entering the market, but also in the:

 FIX Trading Community, the non-profit, industry-driven standards body at the heart of global financial trading, today announced the formation of a new Working Group to focus on the growing number of Digital Currency and Blockchain technology initiatives. Many of the FIX Trading Community members have internal groups focusing on this topic.

Innovation will continue to drive deal-making and capital raisings across virtually all parts of the fintech universe in 2016 and beyond. Meanwhile, fintech companies will continue to have access to the funding that they need – in spite of the recent volatility in global equity markets.

Customers Bank has selected DadeSystems’ DadePay AR Automation solution to expand and enhance its payment processing strategy.

BNY Mellon, a global leader in investment management and investment services, has made the utilization of SWIFT's Know Your Customer (KYC) Registry an integral part of its enhanced client onboarding process.

GBST Holdings Limited, a provider of securities transaction and fund administration software for the financial services industry, has entered into an agreement to provide Haitong International Securities Group Limited with an institutional middle office solution utilising GBST’s Syn~ platform. This implementation is expected to go live by the end of 2015.

Principia Partners, a solution provider for derivative and structured finance operations, launched pasVal, an online portfolio valuation, risk, and accounting management service.

The pasVal service is a web-based interface that leverages Principia’s 20+ years of derivatives expertise. Its valuations engine provides complete portfolio reporting to a wide range of derivative specialists who require sophisticated pricing and analytics without the burden of full-scale system ownership.

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?