Keeping up to speed with trends in technology takes time and effort, especially when it comes to financial technology or fintech as it is commonly referred to as. Money is streaming in to fintech, and everything from how we bank to how we make purchases is changing. Everyone is excited, from entrepreneurs to the man on the street, but it is venture capitalists that are exultant. The rapidly growing billion euro industry is attracting the attention of European venture capitalists hoping to cash in at the growth stage of this burgeoning sector.

Truss Edge, a technology company that has been founded to support the day to day portfolio management and reporting tasks of hedge funds and ETFs, is launching in Europe this week.

Verifi, Inc., a leading provider of payment and risk management solutions for POS and card-not-present merchants, today announced the launch of its Authorized Reseller Program. 

 Providing secure, differentiated and rapidly delivered cloud services to customers is a crucial requirement for today's service providers.  To meet cloud infrastructure demands, global service providers are increasingly turning to the Cisco® Application Centric Infrastructure (Cisco ACI(

PayByPhone, the global leader in mobile parking payments, today announced that it will appoint Andreas Gruber as president and Chief Executive Officer effective June 1st, 2018. Francis Dupuis, the former President and CEO, will take over a position in Germany with parent company Volkswagen Financial Services AG. To provide additional impetus to the PayByPhone board, two new board positions have been created and as a result Maggie Clay (CFO) and Catherine Scott (Legal Counsel) will be appointed effective June 1st, 2018.

Ahead of the upcoming TradeTech US Fixed Income Leaders’ Summit, WBR Insights, the research division of Worldwide Business Research, surveyed 100 North American Fixed Income professionals, from traders and portfolio managers to CIOs. Among the priorities listed, was the need for new Fixed Income technology, cited by 63% of participants.

SimCorp, a leading provider of investment management solutions and services to the global financial services industry, today announces the findings of a newly commissioned WBR market survey, ’Fixed Income 2018: Goals and Challenges for the Front Office’. The report reveals 66% of Fixed Income professionals are seeking to reduce high operating costs, which impact profitability of the Fixed Income desk, as their number one priority for 2018.

Wolters Kluwer has hired Dan Carnevale to further strengthen its Finance, Risk & Reporting business in Canada.

Carnevale, based in Toronto, joins the company as Country Manager, with a remit to ensure customers experience value from products and services, aligning Professional Services and Product Management resources.