Temenos (SIX: TEMN), the banking software company, was named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Global Digital Banking Platforms, Q3 2018. Temenos’ digital banking platform received the highest score in the current offering category after Forrester evaluated the strengths and weakness of the top 10 digital banking platform solutions against 40 criteria. Temenos also achieved the highest score in the market presence category.

Turnkey open banking platform provider, Token.io Limited, today announces it is the first Payment Initiation Service Provider (PISP) to conduct an end-to-end payment with public bank APIs for each of the CMA9, a group of the nine largest banks and building societies in Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Reaching this milestone makes the UK the only region in the world with open and functioning Open Banking APIs.

Today Instantor, the Swedish fintech company making financial decisions easy, announces, WDSK, The World Domination Starter Kit. The WDSK is an initiative to support start-ups and scale-ups to develop next-generation products by giving them access to Instantor´s Bank API with no associated costs for new Instantor customers. By using Instantors bank API, developers will have access to transactional data from over 300 banks in 25 countries, with the potential to reach half a billion people.

Horizon Software(Horizon), the leading global technology provider for electronic trading and investment management, announced today that the China-based securities firm Caitong Securities  has gone live with its Options Trading platform to trade SSE 50 ETF options on the Shanghai Stock Exchange.   

Limassol, Cyprus: ICS Financial Systems Limited (ICSFS), the global software and services provider for banks and financial institutions, has successfully completed the implementation of blockchain proof of concept (PoC), which was conducted at  Arab Jordan Investment Bank (AJIB), one of Jordan’s leading investment and commercial banks, through ICS BANKS® Blockchain Adapterbetween Amman Head Office and Cyprus Branch (Limassol). 

Chip & PIN Solutions (CPS), the point of sale card payment company that helps over 8,000 UK small businesses manage their payment needs, today announces that its Operations Director Ingigerður (Inga) Guðmundsdóttir becomes Managing Director.

Shield Financial Compliance (Shield FC), a specialist RegTech provider, will use a presentation at the RegTech Summit for Capital Markets in London to help Compliance Officers struggling with how to effectively manage electronic communications (eComms) in accordance with MiFID

Integral (www.integral.com), the technology partner trusted by leading banks, brokers, and asset managers to help them outperform their competition in the foreign exchange market, reported today average daily volumes (ADV) across Integral platforms totaled $33.5 billion in August 2018.  This represents an increase of 11% compared to August 2017, and reflects single count trading volumes originating from BankFX^TM, MarginFX^TM , InvestorFX^TM, and Integral MTF^TM in all transacti

Leading international money transfer companyWorldRemit has launched a new digital service within Africa, making it easier to send and receive money across the continent.

On October 10, Minsk will host Blockchain & Bitcoin Conference Belarus, an event dedicated to blockchain and cryptocurrencies. It will bring together reputed industry experts, blockchain enthusiasts, startupers, and entrepreneurs on a single platform.   

The event will take place for the second time. The first conference was attended by more than 400 people, and speakers included experts from five countries.