LexisNexis® Risk Solutions, the global information solution provider, has retained the Best Financial Crime Intelligence and Research Data award for a fourth consecutive year at the Compliance Register Platinum Awards 2017. The firm also secured the Best Regtech Solution in Financial Crime & Sanctions Compliance, to make it a double win.

Red Herring announced last week that it has named Path Solutions, the international specialist provider of Sharia-based financial software and services, to its Top 100 Global Winners list. This honor follows Path Solutions’ selection as a Red Herring’s Top 100 Asia Award Winner in 2017.

With a new head of trading and markets at the SEC, there is optimism that some of the complex market structure issues – such as make-taker incentives and sky-high market data costs — will be looked at in 2018.  As these issues wait to be settled, buy-side traders are also grappling with the EU’s MiFID II  rules on unbundling research payments from executions.

Here are some key takeaways on what matters to buy-side and sell-side traders, as discussed at Traders’ Magazine’sSecond Inaugural Market Structure Equity Town Hall.

Maker Taker: Dead or Alive?

Yolt, the money app owned by ING, has reached 100,000 registered app users in less than six months of Open Beta in the UK. 

Wolters Kluwer’s Finance, Risk & Reporting business is proud to be a sponsor of this week’s RiskMinds International conference taking place in Amsterdam. This five day conference will be attended by more than 650 risk professionals from the financial industry.

BroadSoft, Inc. (NASDAQ:BSFT) a global market leader in cloud business software for unified communication as a service (UCaaS), and provider of collaboration and contact center as a service (CCaaS), and toplink, operator of one of the largest cloud telephone systems in Germany, announce a new cloud solution for medium-sized and large enterprises.

First Data Corporation (NYSE: FDC), a global leader in commerce-enabling technology and solutions, today announced the successful completion of its acquisition of BluePay Holdings, Inc. from BluePay’s current owners including TA Associates and BluePay management.

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The best way to add money to Monzo is by getting your salary paid straight in or setting up a regular standing order. 

Remitware Payments (REMITR), the Fintech startup providing crossborder payments to businesses, is set to launch MoneyOS – a Blockchain based operation system for global payments.