SWIFT recently organised a Know Your Customer (KYC) roadshow in 10 countries across the Middle East and North Africa to look at the impact of KYC regulations on the banking and financial community and to highlight solutions that reduce the cost of compliance.

HID Global®, a worldwide leader in secure identity solutions, today announced that it has integrated the company’s Lumidigm® biometrics technology with its widely deployed OMNIKEY® contactless smart card readers to simplify identity validation for citizen ID and many financial, healthcare and other commercial applications.

Vonage is pleased to announce that the Company has been chosen as a preferred partner byThe Alliance Partners (The Alliance), formerly the Agent Alliance, an industry consortium of telecom and IT companies focused on cloud services.

Edgewater Technology, Inc., a leading consulting firm that brings a blend of classic and product‐based consulting services to its clients, today announced that it has acquired the assets of Chicago‐based Branchbird, LLC ("Branchbird"), an Oracle Gold Partner and Cloudera Partner specializing in Big Data and Data Discovery technologies and solutions. Branchbird will join Edgewater Ranzal ("Ranzal"), a wholly‐owned subsidiary of Edgewater and a Platinum provider of Oracle Enterprise Performance Management ("EPM") and Business Intelligence ("BI") solutions and services. 

Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), the global leader in content delivery network (CDN) services, today announced the appointment of Ashutosh (Ash) Kulkarni as Senior Vice President & General Manager of the Company's Web Experience Division. 

Wells Fargo Capital Finance, part of Wells Fargo & Company (WFC), announced that Nick Lawrence has been appointed as managing director for Supply Chain Finance (SCF) as it finalizes the build out of its European platform to support all three international products, Channel Finance, Supplier Finance and Sales Finance.

 Mooreland Partners (www.moorelandpartners.com), the leading independent investment bank providing M&A and private capital advisory services to the global technology industry, today announced it acted as the exclusive financial advisor to Proxibid on a growth equity financing led by Primus Capital.

Nasdaq (Nasdaq:NDAQ) and Ant Financial Services Group (Ant Financial) today announced that Nasdaq Last Sale (NLS) real-time data is now available to the millions of Ant Financial clients through the Alipay and Ant Fortune apps. NLS provides a real-time and comprehensive view into trading activity in all Nasdaq U.S.-listed equity securities.