Germany's Postbank is to run an internal pilot of an NFC mobile payments app operating in a Host Card Emulation environment.

Mobile payments company Square is to open its fourth global hub in Melbourne, Australia, to drive sales of its Register tablet POS.

Tullett Prebon Information (TPI), a leading global provider of financial market data, has won Best Data Provider (Broker) at the Inside Market Data awards for the fifth year in a row.

The Inside Market Data awards recognise excellence within the market data industry. The winners, voted for by data consumers within the global banking and financial services sectors, were announced at a ceremony held in New York on Wednesday, 20 May.

A new study from Experian, the global information services company, reveals that more than three million¹ social housing tenants could be missing out on the most competitive online financial deals due to a lack of a credit history and also limited internet access.

The youth (18-24 year olds) of the UK & Ireland’s Information Generation, have demonstrated exacting standards over their suppliers in retail, financial services and technology, media and entertainment sectors, research undertaken by Opinium reveals today.

Equiniti, a leading specialist in technology, finance and administrative services, today opened the doors to its brand new Fintech innovation centre in Cardiff’s newly developed ‘Capital Quarter’.

The centre will serve as an exciting hub from which Equiniti will continue to develop its core offering of innovative FinTech solutions. These currently include multi-lingual platforms and device agnostic portals for employee share plans, online applications for investment platforms and web/mobile applications for pension products.

 Gresham Computing plc, a leading provider of transaction control solutions to international financial institutions and corporates, announced today that Willis, one of the world’s leading insurance brokers, has selected Gresham’s Clareti Transaction Control (CTC) solution for real-time matching and reconciliation of transaction data across its global business.

Zurich, Switzerland – SIX Financial Information wins Best Corporate Actions Data Provider for the sixth year in a row at this year’s Inside Reference Data and Inside Market Data Awards

PROFILE Software, an international financial solutions provider, announced today its participation in the Private Banking Conference & Awards 2015 taking place at Waldorf Astoria in London, on the 3^rd of June. PROFILE is the Badge and Lanyard Sponsor and will provide a brief overview of its Wealth Management solutions to the event’s professional delegates.

 Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (NYSE: BR) has signed an agreement with Thomson Reuters (NYSE: TRI) to acquire the Fiduciary Services and Competitive Intelligence unit from Thomson Reuters Lipper.