Wolters Kluwer Tax & Accounting (TAA) has reported a significant increase in the number of tax returns electronically filed by practitioners using the CCH iFirm^® Tax solution, the only cloud-based tax compliance solution available in Canada. At the same time the company is celebrating a milestone for its industry-leading CCH Axcess expert solution.

OSTTRA, the global post-trade solutions company, today announced it has successfully delivered the first cross-currency swap conversions of USD/SGD swaps from SOR to SORA. The service will expand to cover other indices subject to cessation in the coming months.

Integral, a leading currency technology provider to the financial markets, announced today that C. Hoare & Co., the UK’s oldest privately owned bank, has used Integral’s cloud-based SaaS FX technology to enable its customers to access market liquidity and competitive FX rates across both their business and personal accounts.

Adyen, the global financial technology platform of choice for leading businesses, is publishing economic research that finds that retailers could potentially add £169 billion in revenue to the sector in the UK if they switched to a unified commerce approach and stopped operating in silos. 

The economic analysis conducted by the Centre for Economic and Business Research (Cebr) found that unified commerce gave retailers a 16 percentage point boost to their growth rate in 2022. 

Bright Data, the market-leading public web data platform, has been added to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) ISV Accelerate program, a co-sell program for AWS Partners who provide software solutions that run on or integrate with AWS.

Exchange-traded funds (ETF) investment platform, InvestEngine, has today launched its new Savings Plan feature for customers in the UK, giving both new and experienced investors an easy solution to regularly transfer their income and savings into investments.

Intellect Global Consumer Banking (iGCB), the consumer banking arm of Intellect Design Arena Limited, has launched its Open Finance Enabled Retail banking platform built on eMACH.ai at Money20/20 in Amsterdam. The new Retail Banking Platform empowers banks to create unique products and curate experiences by partnering with country-ready marketplace players. The platform encompasses end-to-end Retail Banking across Savings,  Deposits, Payments, Cards, Lending, Trade Finance, Treasury and Digital Banking. 

Griffin, the UK’s first full-stack Banking as a Service platform, today announced that it has raised $13.5 million (£11 million) in a Series A funding round led by global VC firm, MassMutual Ventures, with participation from existing investors Seedcamp, Notion Capital and EQT Ventures. 

ION, a global leader in trading, analytics, treasury, and risk management solutions for capital markets, commodities, and treasury management, announces that Soochow Securities Co. Ltd of Hong Kong has chosen its Fidessa equities trading platform. Soochow is an international financial services firm, headquartered in Suzhou, China, and will use Fidessa to grow its Hong Kong-based investment banking and brokerage services, and stay competitive in the global marketplace.

The Government Blockchain Association (GBA) honoured exceptional individuals and organizations for their groundbreaking use of blockchain technology in solving public sector challenges. The Annual Achievement Awards, presented on May 24, 2023, in Washington, DC, celebrated this year's outstanding winners.