SWIFT announces that its Standards Consulting Services team has delivered over 150 ISO 20022 consulting projects to more than 70 clients across the globe.

Based on this experience, and given the growing market interest in ISO 20022, SWIFT is now issuing best practice implementation guidelines, which complement its Standards Consulting Services.

 AxiomSL, a global provider of regulatory reporting and risk management solutions, has confirmed its award-winning regulatory reporting platform includes all of the functionality financial firms will need to comply with the Analytical Credit Dataset (AnaCredit) regulation, which is set to have a major impact on a large number of institutions in the eurozone and in other European Union (EU) countries.

xWare42 has been crowned the winner of the prestigious Payments Dragons’ Den prize 2015, an annual competition allowing innovative payments entrepreneurs the chance to showcase their work and ideas to a highly experienced panel of influential industry leaders and hundreds of payments professionals at PayExpo.

NetBooster (FR0000079683 – eligible ALNBT – PEA-PME), a leading independent European agency in digital performance marketing, today announces a new partnership and contract win with Hello bank! the online subsidiary bank of BNP Paribas.

CloudMargin, the groundbreaking collateral management platform, is now live and fully integrated within Metro Bank. CloudMargin is being used to provide collateral management technology for Metro Bank’s over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives and Repo portfolios. This collaboration between the two firms now means Metro Bank have greater control and visibility of their counterparty risk, with the ability to actively challenge and validate their collateral positions and balances.

Banking by smartphone and tablet has become the leading way customers manage their finances, as mobile banking overtakes branches and the internet as the most popular way to bank, according to the British Banking Association.

BCSG, the award-winning cloud application marketplace provider, has today announced the appointment of Simon Lunn to the role of Chief Operating Officer.  Simon will be responsible for the deployment and delivery of new products and services to the telecoms and financial services markets and for meeting many of the challenges that come with BCSG’s growth.

 Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (NYSE: BR) today announced that Portigon Financial Services, an international portfolio service provider with branches in Dusseldorf, London and New York, is now live on Broadridge's global post-trade processing solution for both its German domestic and international businesses across exchange-traded derivatives and securities.

MANGOPAY, a white label payment solution for marketplaces and crowdfunding platforms, today announces it has handled €200 million per year worth of payments for 500 businesses across Europe. The success of the company comes just six months since the company opened a new office in London. MANGOPAY now boasts 50 British based clients, including, Crowd2fund,Banktothefuture, Liftshare, Farmdrop, Propertymoose, InvestUp and Sponsorise.me.

Intelligent Environments has launched an emotive alternative to PIN-only passcodes with a system that enables consumers to log into their banks using four emoji characters.The firm's ‘Emoji Passcode’, which it has integrated into its Android digital banking app, allows consumers to choose from a bank of 44 different graphics.