Taiwan Futures Exchange (TAIFEX) and Deutsche Börse Market Data + Services signed a market data partnership agreement, under which Deutsche Börse will act as the licensor of TAIFEX market data and information products to all international clients. Therefore, clients will be able to benefit from the state-of-the-art licensing services offered by Deutsche Börse, which already functions as a licensing partner for a whole range of trading venues around the globe such as BSE India, Irish Stock Exchange and Bulgarian Stock Exchange.

RIMES, the leading provider of managed data services for the buy-side, is hosting its inaugural Regulatory Seminar on Ju

Athens-based investment firm, Piraeus Securities (Piraeus), has gone live with the latest version of Horizon’s trading platform as part of the firm’s continued commitment to quality and innovation in its market making activities. This implementation is a significant upgrade for the firm.

FlexTrade Systems, a global leader in multi-asset execution management systems, is pleased to announce its partnership with RSRCHXchange, the online marketplace for institutional research, to provide buy-side traders with immediate alerts to the availability of relevant research via the company’s FlexTRADER EMS.

GoSwiff International, a global financial solutions provider headquartered in Singapore, announced today the appointment of Mark Patrick as their new Chief Executive Officer.

Mr. Patrick is an accomplished leader, with a track record of managing global, high-growth fintech businesses. He brings a great mix of leadership, inspiration, industry experience, technical knowledge, and passion to the business.  At GoSwiff, Mr. Patrick will focus on developing and launching new and unique payment solutions and services leveraging the latest advancements in mobile technologies.

NCR Corporation, a global leader in omni-channel solutions, today introduced its extensive suite of innovative security solutions to help banks in the Middle East offer trusted and secure banking environment leading to increased customer loyalty and experience. The NCR Secure™ security portfolio comprises NCR Solidcore Suite for APTRA, NCR Skimming Protection Solution (SPS), NCR Physical Protection Level 3, NCR Remote BIOS (Basic Input Output System) Update Solution and NCR Hard Disk Encryption (HDE) amongst others.

In October 2015 France adopted a national payment strategy designed to speed up the innovation process of developing new payment methods and to encourage the competitiveness of the French payments industry.

The implementation of the national payment strategy will help France as it strives to meet users’ needs, particularly in terms of increasing card acceptance for low value payments. A key focus to achieving this is through the development of contactless payments and other cutting edge methods of payment (i.e. mobile payments or those made through connected devices).

On 7-8 June, 2016, the 7^th International PLUS-Forum “Cards, Payments and Mobile 2016” will be held by the PLUS Journal in Moscow. The event is dedicated to the analysis of the current state of and prospects for the payment industry development in Russia and globally.

PLUS-Forum is one of a few events growing in popularity even during the current period far from being very favourable one. Over 1000 participants from Russia and other countries across the globe will attend the event this time.