It’s summertime, it’s lunchtime, and it’s hot. You’re hungry and with the weather, you’re very thirsty, so what’s the best thing to do? See what’s available at a near-by restaurant? Grab a drink and a snack at a local shop? Or use the Internet to order a delivery?

Equiniti Group plc, a leading provider of technology-led solutions to financial services clients, introduces EQ Strata, an augmented reality (AR) app enabling clients to increase customer engagement through technology.

AR brings images to life by overlaying video animation, 3D models and audio to immerse customers in an interactive world. Equiniti uses the app to design client solutions that enhance engagement with customers, whether they are employees, investors or shareholders.

GoldenSource, the leading independent provider of Enterprise Data Management (EDM) and Master Data Management (MDM) solutions for the securities and investment management industry, continued its expansion today with the opening of a new Paris office. The office will help serve GoldenSource’s growing European client base and will be headed by Eric Bassot, who will be responsible for business development in the region.

ClearScore is proud to announce that it has become the UK’s number one credit checking company, helping more than two million people get control of their money.

Credit reports help determine which financial product deals someone is eligible for, whether they can buy or rent a property, get a mobile phone contract or even a job. Yet before ClearScore launched in July 2015, almost 32 million UK adults had never checked their credit score.

Capital One announces the five finalists awarded a place on its accelerator programme, Growth Labs. The programme, launched in partnership with corporate accelerator and investment firm L Marks, aims to enable early stage start-ups to develop new technologies for the financial sector.

Banks’ IT systems are under a lot of pressure to enable the transition to digital financial services. However, their heavy infrastructures were designed in the 1970s and have evolved into increasingly complex systems. Legacy bank IT systems are difficult (some say impossible) to modernize. Rebuilding a complex legacy system from scratch can take years to decades to complete. Worse, it often results in failure.

Ancoa, provider of contextual surveillance and insightful analytics for exchanges, regulators, buy & sell-side firms, today announced that Tower Trading Group (TTG), a global trading firm delivering bespoke commercial and technical solutions for professional traders, has selected Ancoa’s market surveillance platform to monitor its multi-asset trading activities across all exchanges and Independent Services Providers (ISVs).