SIX Financial Information France SA announces an integration plan to fully align the unit with the global functional structures of SIX by the end of this year, as well as other strategic measures. This will allow SIX to strengthen the French organization and to increase its competitiveness. If the integration plan is approved by the French labor authorities, the integration will lead to a staff reduction in France accompanied by a social plan.

Oberthur Technologies a leading global provider of embedded security software products, services and solutions, today announced that it has acquired Xantium Integrated Solutions (Xantium).

Xantium is a renowned South African supplier of cards and personalization services to a wide variety of market segments including Banks, Retailers and Third party payment processors in South Africa and several African countries.

At the 17^th annual Temenos Community Forum – Temenos , the software specialist for banking and finance, today announces an agreement with two Philippines-based ACCU member organisations, National Confederation of Cooperatives (NATCCO) and Philippine Federation of Credit Cooperatives (PFCCO) to provide a cloud-based banking and payment service, known as the ACCU Payment Platform (APP). The service will run on the Microsoft Cloud.

There is a lot of talk about blockchain.  A lot.  Loads.  But when you get past all the talk, what is actually happening with blockchain?  Answer: not enough.

From today, Lloyds Bank, Halifax and Bank of Scotland customers will be able to download and start using Android Pay.

Android Pay enables users to seamlessly tap and pay with their Android devices at almost 460,000 payment terminals in UK shops, bringing together payment networks, banks and retailers to help customers pay simply and securely.

Infront, provider of modern terminals for global market data, analytics and trading, today announced the inclusion of indexes provided by the Freedom Index Company within the Infront terminal. With the integration, the independent Freedom indexes are made available for benchmarking on the Infront market data terminal combining flexibility, speed and cost efficiency.

inContact the leading provider of cloud contact center software and contact center optimization tools, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by NICE, the worldwide leading provider of software solutions that enable organizations to take the next best action in order to improve customer experience and business results, ensure compliance, fight financial crime, and safeguard people and assets. Under the terms of the agreement, inContact stockholders will receive $14.00 per share in cash.

 Tender Armor, a fraud prevention payments solution provider, launches CvvPlus, in Europe. CvvPlus is a new innovative real-time, dual-factor, out-of-band fraud prevention solution that authenticates cardholders conducting card-not-present (CNP) transactions. Utilising a rapid, low-cost deployment model, CvvPlus is available now for implementation across all financial institution (FI) demand accounts and card portfolios, supporting CNP and card-present purchases requiring a payment security code (such as a CVV2 or PIN).

 On 20 April 2016, 1,200 financial services professionals gathered at the Tobacco Dock in London for SWIFT’s annual Business Forum London (BFL). Focused on ‘Building the Future of Financial Services’, the event featured keynote presentations and interactive panel sessions, with live audience polling that addressed some of the key challenges facing the industry,  such as the application of distributed ledger technology (DLT) in financial services.

Clarient reports that Schroders Luxembourg has gone live on Clarient Entity Hub, a utility-based service designed to simplify client data and document management. The adoption of the service by a leading asset management firm builds upon the momentum Clarient has generated over the past year and brings the total number of users to more than 100.