Visa today announced the availability of Visa Checkout with Air Canada, Canada's largest airline. With Visa Checkout, Air Canada customers can spend more time planning their trip and less time filling out payment and billing information.

Financial Risk Solutions (FRS), a Dublin-based provider of unit-linked investment administration and compliance oversight software, is pleased to announce that Friends First, one of Ireland’s leading life assurance companies, has selected its Invest|GRCTM (Governance, Risk & Compliance) software to produce Key Information Documents (KIDs), a central requirement of the upcoming Packaged Retail and Insurance-based Investment Products (“PRIIPs“) regulation. 

Santiment, the datafeeds platform for showing the true state of the crypto-markets, has successfully closed its two-stage token crowdsale on July 5, 2017, raising a total of $12,215,250 USD worth of ETH. 

Product sourcing’ and ‘bottom line’ have been negatively impacted the most since the drop in the pound, say SMEs

• 41% of over 500 SMEs surveyed said the triggering of Article 50 has had a negative impact on their business
• 65% said leaving the EU will not affect their ability to hire staff
• Product sourcing and bottom line have taken the biggest hit since the vote to leave, according to SME owners

Concurrent, a global leader in storage, protection, transformation and delivery of visual assets, and Alluxio, developers of the world's first system that unifies data at memory speed, today announced a joint solution that

Financial IT had an inspiring interview with Ovidiu (Ovi) Olea, Founder and CEO of Valoot Technologies Limited (Valoot) about industrial changes and the way Valoot differentiates itself in today's marketplace. 

A wave of consolidation has hit high-speed trading firms and brokers in the past few months, and many are blaming low volatility and weak trading volumes in the face of rising compliance and market data costs.

Starting with electronic market-maker Virtu’s acquisition of rival KCG in April, Two Sigma Securities buying options market-marker Timber Hill in May, and Cowen gobbling up Convergex a few weeks ago, trading firms are reassessing their business models, including the need for speed.

Open Banking, the implementation entity set up by the Competition & Markets Authority (CMA) to enable a new, secure way for customers to take control of their financial data and share it with organisations other than their banks, is pleased to announce the release of its Accounts and Transaction Information and Payments Initiation API Specifications.

Thomson Reuters today announced the launch of Thomson Reuters Labs™ – The Incubator.  Located in Switzerland, the Incubator will host early-stage entrepreneurs building next-generation products in big data, advanced analytics, distributed ledgers, artificial intelligence, machine learning and other transformational technologies.  As part of the official program, startups will receive access to