Wolters Kluwer Financial Services has signed Nippon Wealth Limited, a Restricted License Bank (NWB) as a user of OneSumX. The restricted license bank, based in Hong Kong and focused on Asia and Japan, will specifically use the solution for anti-money laundering (AML) and regulatory reporting, as it establishes its operations.

AxiomSL, a global provider of regulatory reporting and risk management solutions, announced today that a large Swedish bank has chosen to use AxiomSL’s platform to centralize its head-office regulatory calculations and reporting, and its branch-level reporting in Germany, Norway, Finland, Poland, Denmark, Austria and the United Kingdom (UK). The requirements covered by the agreement include statistical reporting and the Capital Requirements Directive IV (CRD IV).

Bloomberg Trading Facility Limited (BTF), an affiliate of Bloomberg LP, announced today that  it has received authorisation  from the UK Financial Conduct Authority to operate a multilateral trading facility (MTF).

The MTF draws on Bloomberg's established and successful trading venue capabilities in the creation of a platform for the execution of interest rate swaps (IRS) and credit default swaps (CDS) and will offer  both request for quote and order book functionalities.

Deutsche Bank teams up with BCSG to launch db Impresa eXtra, the first ever web aggregator in the Italian Market to offer non-banking services to SMEs and Midcorporates, addressing clients and prospects.

The rapid growth of digital banking has driven increased customer engagement, the latest figures from the Halifax Digital Dashboard show. In June, the number of customer interactions with Halifax stood at 69 million visits, which equates to 2.3 million interactions per day and nearly 1,600 every minute. This is an increase of nearly half (47%) from the 47 million in the same month in the previous year.

ntelligent Environments, the leading provider of digital financial services software, and Atom – the UK’s first digital-only bank – are partnering to deliver to the market a unique mobile banking solution.

Atom will be deploying Interact®, Intelligent Environments’ market leading secure software platform to underpin their customers’ digital experience.  This digital only solution is entirely unique within the UK banking market. Atom Bank will implement Interact® across iOS, Android and Windows.

DigiSEq has developed the technology to remotely personalise wearable devices for contactless payments. DigiSEq is the first to have developed this technology and gained approval from MasterCard using the M/Chip™ Advance payment application. DigiSEq’s solution securely delivers consumer payment credentials into wearables, such as watches, bracelets, and key fobs, enabling users to make contactless payments immediately after purchasing the wearable device.

Nasdaq (Nasdaq:NDAQ) announced that its US-based Nasdaq Futures, Inc. (NFX)will officially launch today. The platform will initially offer futures and options on oil, natural gas and US power benchmarks, with a fee holiday for the first nine months of trading.

 SETL today announced its plans to deploy a multi-asset, multi-currency institutional payment and settlements infrastructure based on blockchain technology.  The SETL system will enable market participants to move cash and assets directly between each other, facilitating the immediate and final settlement of market transactions. The SETL system maintains a permissioned distributed ledger of ownership and transaction records, simplifying the process of matching, settlement, custody, registration and transaction reporting.