Financial IT speaks to Andre Casterman, Global Head Corporate and Trade Market, SWIFT at Sibos 2015.

Financial IT speaks to Herve Lacorne, CEO, Trade Solutions at Sibos 2015

Elavon, a leading payments solution provider in Canada and subsidiary of U.S. Bancorp (NYSE: USB), now offers its customers access to Apple Pay™. Following the recent launch of Apple Pay in Canada for American Express cardholders, Elavon is among the first payment processing companies to offer Apple Pay to Canadian businesses.

EchoSat announced today that it has acquired the SmartLink™ division of Heartland Payment Systems (NYSE: HPY), one of the nation’s largest payment processors. With the addition of Heartland SmartLink’s Secure Payment Gateway (SPG) and managed network services, EchoSat will serve more than 21,000 merchant locations in the petroleum/convenience store, quick service restaurant and supermarket industries.

ProphetStor Data Services, Inc., Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. and Mellanox Technologies, Inc. today announced that they have joined forces to build and promote a reference cloud computing platform based on the open-source projects OpenStack and Ceph, leveraging each company's respective strength in software-defined-storage, state-of-the-art server hardware, and high-speed networking.

PortfolioMetrix, the next-generation discretionary investment fund management firm that blends the convenience of model portfolios with the ability to customise portfolios for individual clients, has launched in Ireland, with offices based in Dublin.

The Dublin office will be offering Irish advisers and their clients Euro Portfolios. However, the expansion also offers access to Euro funds for UK based advisers with clients requiring investment options outside of Sterling.

Financial IT speaks to Arun Jain, Chairman & Managing Director, Intellect Design Arena Ltd. at Sibos 2015 

Financial IT speaks to Manish Maakan, CEO, iGTB at Sibos 2015 

Turkey’s leading credit card platform World digitalizes the credit card experience through a new “Yapı Kredi Wallet” application, available for iOS and Android devices.

On 28 December in the afternoon, Mr. Cheng Yuanzhong, chairman of China Public Procurement Limited (CPP) and Guocai Science & Technology Company Limited, met in IFC Beijing with Mr. Sun Zhanping, general manager of ChinaPay, and Mr. Xie Fulin, chairman of Amazon International Investment Groups Company Limited ("Amazon Investment Groups"). The meeting was joined by Mr. Du Shengfeng, chief executive officer of Guocai Science & Technology Company Limited and chairman of Yi'an Tongbao Electronic Commerce Limited, and Mr.