I was at a really interesting conference on APIs and PSD2. The event was very light on PSD2 but it did allow me to test out my thinking about the future of banking aggregation. In this blog I’m going to refrain from littering it with PSD terms and just put across my thoughts.

BITA risk is pleased to announce that it has won its 3rd consecutive Wealth Briefing European Award. At a gala awards dinner held last night at The Guildhall London BITA won best Risk Profiling Solution for 2016. This follows on from it winning the same category in 2015 and Risk Management Solution in 2014.

Path Solutions, the largest provider of Sharia-compliant core banking systems, is delighted to announce a double award win, where it scooped the highly prestigious ‘Best Technology Provider’ and Best Banking Solution’ for the company’s Islamic core banking system iMAL, at The Asset Triple A Islamic Finance Awards 2016.

HID Global®, a worldwide leader in  secure identity solutions, has revealed that 74 per cent of employees in European businesses are not concerned about security issues when using their company mobile phone  -  this figure stands at 77 per cent for employees in the UK, and 82 per cent in Germany. This is according to an independent research project conducted by the company. This finding is a key indicator of the level of confidence that employees have in the mobile security that their companies provide.

BPC Banking Technologies, a world leading provider of payment solutions, announces the launch of the national payment system of Ethiopia, EthSwitch S.C. based on SmartVista. As of today for the first time, all 17 of the countries retail banks are connected together via the unified payment system.

EthSwitch was formed by all the banks in Ethiopia, and with the backing of the Ethiopian Bankers’ Association and the country’s central bank known as the National Bank of Ethiopia. Following the implementation of the full SmartVista suite all the banks’ payments are now centralized.

Callcredit Information Group’s Consumer Markets has launched Noddle Protect, a data breach solution to help safeguard businesses from the reputational damage of a data breach and safeguard consumers’ digital identity. 

Infosys  has won a five-year contract with Commerzbank, the second largest bank in Germany. As part of this agreement, Infosys will remodel the bank’s investment banking IT architecture, optimize IT processes, and evaluate a potential Post-Trade Processing Utility. The Utility would then focus on the clustering of trade processing platforms across various product types.

The remodeling of its existing IT architecture provides an even closer alignment with the needs of its investment banking customers.

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AxiomSL, the leading global provider of regulatory reporting and risk management solutions, announced today that Anadolubank Nederland N.V., a Dutch bank which is a subsidiary of Anadolubank Turkey, has decided to use AxiomSL’s XBRL solution to submit a wide range of regulatory reports to De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB). The project follows the DNB’s decision to align with other European central banks by mandating the use of XBRL for European Banking Authority (EBA) regulatory submissions.

Metamako, the leading specialist in deterministic network devices for the world’s financial institutions, announced today that FXecosystem, a leading provider of outsou

MIT successfully acquired yet another new major customer when it signed a contract with OCBC Bank, on May 10th 2016 to support the bank’s Commodity Trade Finance business with its TRAC (Trade Risk Active Control) system.

“We are excited to break into the Asian market”, says Paul Cohen Dumani, General Manager at MIT, adding that “MIT increases its footprint in Singapore with NATIXIS Singapore already using TRAC”.