Currently there is an explosion of activity in the financial technology (FinTech) sector in the UK. Political attention is turning to the issue with David Cameron recently backing the Innovate Finance Manifesto: UK 2020 that aims to advance the UK’s standing as a leader in FinTech innovation hub.

2015 finally saw mobile payments go mainstream and, as a consequence, technologies like tokenization and host card emulation come to the fore. As we approach the end of the year, the Bell ID team has taken a moment to consider the key trends and technologies that will support the continued growth of the industry into 2016 and beyond.

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smartTrade Technologies, a leader of multi-asset end-to-end trading solutions, announces that the company grew globally both in number of new clients and revenue. This expansion is reinforced by key new hires, increased head count and new headquarters in 2016.

smartTrade has had a very successful year led by a strong demand from buy side and sell side firms looking for cutting-edge trading solutions in FX, Fixed Income and Equities. The company has on-boarded new clients from several regions including Australia, Canada, Central Europe, Japan, Hong Kong, Scandinavia, UK and USA.

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Gresham Computing plc, the leading provider of real-time financial transaction control and enterprise data integrity solutions, has released version 2.0 of its CTC Account Receivables Management (CTC ARM) offering.

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Mendix, a leader in digital innovation and application Platform-as-a-Service (aPaaS), and SIG, an independent advisory firm for software quality and improvement, today announced a partnership and the launch of Mendix Application Quality Monitor, a cloud-based service designed to help customers proactively monitor the maintainability of Mendix applications.

HID Global®, a worldwide leader in secure identity solutions, today announced that parent company ASSA ABLOY has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire IAI industrial systems B.V. (“IAI”), a leading provider of high-quality personalization solutions for identity documents, from its parent company DOCDATA N.V. The acquisition will bring together highly complementary offerings for government-to-citizen and other identification solutions, while positioning HID Global for overall growth and innovation in the high-volume document personalization market.

GFT, the leading provider of business, design and technology consulting to the investment banking community, today announces the appointment of Paul Harrington as a Principal Consultant within the Legal, Compliance & Regulatory practice team.

SETL, the UK based institutional payment and settlement infrastructure based on blockchain technology, has today announced the appointment of Sir David Walker as Chairman.

Christmas advertising eats up 70 per cent of the £5 billion Q4 ad spend, but with retail profits under pressure, pumping money into advertising is a risky game. Businesses have no clear sight on how advertising converts into sales, and can face bankruptcy if they fail to recoup costs. Powa Technologies has handed brands and retailers a game-changing technology which will enable them to unlock the vast potential for return in these campaigns.