Early July SWIFT announced that 22 global banks recently joined its Blockchain proof of concept (PoC) initiative introduced in January this year in collaboration with six leading correspondent banks (ANZ, BNP Paribas, BNY Mellon, RBC Royal Bank and Wells Fargo). The PoC is part of SWIFT’s ‘gpi’ (global payments innovation) service, the new standard for cross-border payments, aimed to “re-arm the correspondent banking system for a new age of technological disruption”. 

Listed technology group EOH has announced the acquisition of 100% of Rindedata, an IT consultancy specialising in cloud solutions for the Office of Finance for an undisclosed sum.

Founded in 1996, Rinedata’s core focus is to help the finance function transform, drive efficiency and obtain real-time visibility into business performance through cloud technology.  Services include consulting and implementation of enterprise resource planning (ERP), corporate performance management (CPM), and business intelligence (BI) solutions.

Fidessa group plc (LSE: FDSA) today announced that Marusan Securities Co., Ltd., an independent securities company headquartered in Tokyo, has gone live with Fidessa for its wholesale agency trading business. Fidessa is the leading system of choice in the Japanese market with 11 domestic security firms now using it for their wholesale agency trading.

Any action which strengthens defences against financial crime and provides organisations with further clarity around required standards is a step in the right direction. By encouraging further public-private collaboration, the government is following in the footsteps of other successful anti-money laundering initiatives. In particular the Joint Money Laundering Intelligence Taskforce (JMLIT), which has helped banks and law enforcement agencies to arrest more people, restrain more assets and flag more cases of suspected money laundering in the last two years.

Lexmark International, Inc., a global imaging solutions leader, today announced it has been positioned for the sixth consecutive year as a leader in managed print services (MPS) by leading European-based industry analyst firm Quocirca.

IPC, a leading global provider of secure, compliant communications and networking solutions for the financial markets community, has been voted by customers “Best Trading Floor Communication System Provider” in the Waters Rankings for the seventh consecutive year and twelfth time in the 14 years of the readers’ choice awards competition.

UniCredit and EBA CLEARING today announced that UniCredit has started testing with RT1, EBA CLEARING’s pan-European, real-time payment platform. This test phase is a key milestone for UniCredit in its preparations to roll out euro instant payment products to its customer base across Europe.