Openlink, the global leader in trading, treasury and risk management solutions for energy, commodities and financial services organizations, has earned the 2017 Treasury Management International (TMI) Award for Innovation & Excellence.  This year’s award recognizes Openlink for “Best Risk Management Solution” in the Technology Innovation category.

The Bank of England should be cautious about raising interest rates by too much in a short space of time. There’s a high probability that any rises could simply be a way to take advantage of the opportunity, whilst it exists, to hike up interest rates ahead of Brexit in case there is a need to then drop them again.

This article was written by Dr. Richard Peterson, CEO of MarketPsych, and plenary speaker at the upcoming conference in India: “AI, Machine Learning and Sentiment Analysis Applied to (i) Financial Markets (ii) Retail and Consumer Markets”.

RBR and the European Association for Secure Transactions (EAST) are pleased to announce they will be co-locating key security events at the Park Plaza Victoria hotel in London, on 9^th and 10^th October 2018. 

RBR’s ATM & Cyber Security 2018 conference has established itself over the past decade as the world’s leading conference focused on physical and logical ATM security. The 2017 event attracted 400 delegates representing 150 organisations from over 40 countries.

The Nordic payment markets are among the most advanced and well-functioning in the world delivering first-class services to individuals and corporates across the region. At the same time, and despite close ties between the countries, the current payment infrastructures are highly fragmented along national borders. A harmonization of the domestic infrastructures and the products offered would ease cross-border payments and foster further trade between the Nordic countries, stimulating growth and employment.

Liquidnet, the global institutional trading network, and Abel Noser Solutions today announced the pilot of Portfolio Manager Profiling. The model, when incorporated into Liquidnet’s Virtual High Touch™ Next Gen algo suite, links historical trade and TCA data with the portfolio manager’s decisions to create a distinct profile for each participating portfolio manager. These profiles are then factored into determining a suggested algo trading strategy via Liquidnet’s Algo Ranking Model (ARM).

Profile Software, an international financial solutions provider, announced today the successful implementation of Acumen^net, the independent treasury solution developed by Login SA, a Profile company, in Family Bank, Kenya.

It may contain more than four letters, but legacy has become a dirty word in banking. In recent years, it has largely been used as shorthand for all the sources of inertia that are tying up budgets and binding staff to outmoded and inefficient processes. Legacy systems are far from perfect, and inevitably show their age versus newer pieces of kit. But they still have something of value to offer – otherwise they would have been thrown into the scrapheap long ago.

SDK.finance, the European Core Payment Platform, supersedes Visa and other major players in terms of API endpoints.

Striving to deliver the best-in-class back-end platform, SDK.finance beats the giants of the payment-processing industry and other major FinTech players according to research conducted by the team.

 CEO of SDK.Finance, Alex Malyshev, said: