SmartStream, the financial Transaction Lifecycle Management (TLM^®) specialist, today announced that its product Corona, the first solution ever to comply with the SWIFT Certified Application - Electronic Trade Confirmation (ETC) criteria, has again been awarded with the label.

Volante Technologies Inc., a global leader in the provision of software for the integration, processing and orchestration of financial messages and payments, working in collaboration with Ripple, today announced it has created a solution specifically designed to accelerate the process of integrating with Ripple, the global provider of distributed financial technology solutions offering real-time settlement of cross border payments.

 TradingScreen Inc., the leading independent provider of liquidity, trading and investment technology via SaaS, and Quantitative Brokers (“QB”), a leading provider of clearer and dealer-neutral agency algorithms for fixed income and futures markets, have partnered to provide QB’s best execution algorithms through the TradingScreen electronic trading platform. This suite includes the Bolt and Strobe algorithms for outright and listed spread execution, as well the Legger algorithm for customizable intra/inter-exchange, multi-leg order type execution.​
 

Splitit, an interest-free installment payments technology, announced today the launch of its Shopify plugin, available to all merchants on Shopify’s App store. Merchants using Shopify will now be able to seamlessly integrate Splitit’s payment tool into their checkout process, allowing customers to instantly split purchases into interest-free monthly payments on their existing Visa and MasterCard credit cards.

Expertus and Ripple, today announced that they have launched a Pilot Program for Financial Institutions that want to test the capabilities of blockchain and Ripple distributed financial technology.

The Pilot Program offers financial institutions a lean way to test blockchain technology with minimal business process disruption and integration effort. The solution can be integrated into the bank’s existing payments infrastructure without the need for any changes.

After a two-year investigation, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has published provisional recommendations to improve retail banking in the UK. It’s a sector that requires remedial attention, but once again a golden opportunity to radically transform the existing market has been shunned in favour of a less far-reaching set of target outcomes. It mirrors the same timid way the Independent Commission on Banking (ICB) balked at proposing wide-ranging structural and non-structural reforms to the wider banking sector back in 2011. But could we really have expected more?

 NICE Actimize, business and the largest and broadest provider of a single financial crime, risk and compliance software platform for the financial services industry, and Mphasis, a leading IT services provider with specialized expertise in the governance, risk and compliance sector, have announced that they have joined together in a certified delivery partnership.