Alacra Inc., the leading provider of business information solutions for financial institutions, corporations and professional service firms, announced today the launch of Alacra Resolve. Alacra Resolve is a completely new and unique approach to accessing and researching all the publicly available entity identifiers: LEI, GIIN, ticker, CIK, FRN, RSSD, and more.

Comarch has implemented yet another mobile application for stock market investors – investors holding a brokerage account at ING Securities Brokerage House can now place orders as well as preview their portfolio and stock quotations on mobile devices with Android and iOS via Makler Mobile application.

 AccessPay, the provider of payment automation and business intelligence, today announced the appointment of industry veteran John Wordley as Head of Sales.

John comes to AccessPay after holding sales leadership roles with several high profile companies, including Pulsant Limited and SunGard Availability Services. With more than two decades’ experience leading regional, national and international sales growth, John has an established track record of transforming organisations into high-performing global enterprises.

Aquiline Capital Partners LLC, a New York-based private equity firm investing in financial services, announced today that is has made an investment in Fenergo, the leading provider of client lifecycle management software solutions for investment banks, capital market firms and private banks.

UK based FinTech solutions provider, FriendlyScore, has announced the launch of its SAAS application that analyzes real time social media data to assist lenders in creating risk profiles for potential borrowers with little to no credit history.

• HID Global continues to streamline and improve how banks protect themselves and their customers against fraud, data breaches and unauthorised transactions.
• Latest addition to One Time Password (OTP) family gives banks and enterprises the superior security of a hardware device along with unprecedented flexibility to personalise tokens on-site and manage all secret keys themselves.

It is now evident that the way in which emerging markets are financed has a critical effect on the overall financial well-being of these countries.

FIS™ (NYSE: FIS), a global leader in banking and payments technology as well as consulting and outsourcing solutions, announced the launch of India’s first financial inclusion lab in Bengaluru. The lab is aimed at developing innovative ways to extend banking access to India’s millions of underbanked citizens.

Nanopool GmbH acquired the nano-tech division of the Swiss company Bühler AG, one of the five worldwide leading players in the surface coating sector, and thus processed the biggest acquisition in the company's history. "The Bühler technology is successfully established in the USA and Asia for years," Sascha Schwindt stated.

PT JCB International Indonesia, subsidiary of JCB International Co. Ltd. the international operations arm of JCB Co. Ltd. (hereinafter collectively "JCB"), and PT. Bank Rakyat Indonesia (Persero) Tbk ("BRI"), one of the Indonesia's largest state owned commercial banks, with specialties in small medium enterprise or small scale & microfinance, are pleased to announce a new partnership for card payment business.