Nedbank is one of South Africa’s major banking groups, offering the full range of wholesale and retail banking services through a growing footprint across Africa. 

Horizon Software (Horizon), the leading global provider of electronic trading and investment management technology, today announced that Guohai Liangshi Capital Management Co Ltd (GHLS),the subsidiary company of Guohai Futures, has chosen Horizon’s platform for options market making and trading, as well as delta one trading.

Deutsche Bank today announced that it has launched the first paperless import payment solution in India with its TradePay system. 

Temenos (SIX: TEMN), the software specialist for banking and finance, has extended its leadership in cloud-based banking and finance software with the launch of its Payment Hub in cloud on Microsoft Azure. 

Santander InnoVentures, the fintech venture capital fund of Santander Group, announced today an investment in the Mexican startup ePesos, the mobile payments company for the underbanked. ePesos has today closed a USD 6 million investment round that will enable the company to continue growing its platform serving and supporting small and medium sized enterprises across Mexico. Other institutional investors participating in the round include VilCap Investments, Pomona Impact, and Fiinlab, the innovation lab owned by Gentera.

Lloyds Bank has today announced investment into a new real-time cash management and payments platform that will allow it to enhance its payment capabilities, become market leading in its delivery to corporate and institutional clients alongside a Group-wide investment to transform its cross-border payments capability.

The Yobota Platform is a cloud-based operating platform, offering a leaner, faster and cheaper way for our clients to set up and run their financial businesses. Our clients pick the functional components they want, and with consumption-based pricing they pay for exactly what they use, rather than bearing would otherwise be large fixed IT costs. Our platform provides access to the financial services ecosystem, enabling a full, front-to-back operational capability without the need for countless integrations.

EastNets (eastnets.com), a leading provider of compliance, payment and cloud solutions for the financial services industry, will showcase en.SafeWatch PaymentGuard, an advanced real-time fraud detection solution for SWIFT payments. The product will be showcased alongside the company’s numerous anti-money laundering and financial crime and compliance risk (FCCR) solutions, at the 2017 SWIFT International Banking Operations Seminar (Sibos).

IHS Markit (Nasdaq: INFO), a world leader in critical information, analytics and solutions, today announced that Hermes Investment Management has selected its Transaction Cost Analysis (TCA) platform.

Identitii, the secure information sharing company enabling banks to better serve their corporate clients by accelerating transaction approvals, today announced the launch of its Software as a Service (SaaS) offering, now available on the Microsoft Azure cloud.