ABN AMRO, the third largest bank in the Netherlands with more than 22,000 employees, has chosen Wolters Kluwer and SAS to provide a truly integrated finance, risk and regulatory reporting software solution. The implementation of the software is part of the bank’s major transformation project, the Finance and Risk Architecture Alignment Initiative (FRAAI), which is designed to better meet increasing requests internally as well as from regulatory bodies for ever more granular or different data within shorter time lines.

Finastra and Microsoft have formed a strategic alliance to deliver secure, flexible and cost effective financial services cloud solutions. As part of the alliance, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft’s enterprise-ready trusted cloud platform, will underpin FusionFabric.cloud as Finastra’s strategic cloud platform. In addition, Finastra will launch a selection of its global payments and retail banking products on Azure over the course of this year.

State Street Corporation (NYSE: STT) today announced it has developed and begun licensing a suite of rules-based investment strategies, or Investable Indices, for institutional investors.

“This is not smart beta or thematic investing,” said Will Kinlaw, head of research and advisory for State Street Global Exchange^SM. “These investable indices represent a new phase of dynamic investing. We’re packaging an active strategy in rules-driven index, where security weights can change dynamically as relevant factors and big data indicators evolve.”

Today at Finovate Europe 2018, Meniga, the global leader of white-label digital banking solutions and three-time Finovate winner, presented its latest personal finance innovation that encourages banks to branch out from the familiar digital banking customer experience.

Fiserv, Inc. (NASDAQ: FISV), a leading global provider of financial services technology solutions, announced today it is offering Mastercard^® Decision Intelligence^™, a comprehensive decision and fraud detection service.

iwoca, one of Europe’s largest small business lenders, is pledging to lend £100 million to micro and small businesses in the North of England by 2020. The alternative finance provider is making the pledge in response to the withdrawal of credit facilities for small businesses by the UK’s banks, which has been most acute in the North.

 Trifacta, a global leader in data wrangling, announced the availability of Wrangler Enterprise in the Azure Marketplace, allowing organizations to deploy Trifacta in less than 30 minutes. Trifacta & Microsoft Azure have already seen early success with large-scale enterprise customers including Chubb, Donnelley Financial Solutions, and Etihad Airways.

Intelligent Environments, the software development company that provides financial services organisations with the ability to transform their digital customer experiences, todaylaunched the latest iteration of Interact® Collect – a solution that finally rewires the debt recovery and reconciliation process for the digital world.

Interact Collect is a digital-first approach to consumer debt collection.

The Symphony Software Foundation (the Foundation), the nonprofit organization fostering open source software innovation in financial services, will be hosting its second Open Source Strategy Forum on November 14, 2018. Following a successful 2017 event at BNY Mellon in New York City, the Open Source Strategy Forum moves this year to London, another global epicenter of financial services and the fintech revolution.