Several of the STRANDS team recently traveled to Las Vegas to attend Money20/20– the world’s largest payment and financial services event. We had a great time connecting with market leaders, smart people, and other innovative companies like ourselves, making an impact on the FinTech ecosystem.

Although it was physically impossible to attend all sessions, we managed to pick out five nuggets of information that we found particularly interesting in the game-changing world of money. Ready? Let’s get started.

Libelium announces the integration of NEC on board of its Sensor Platform through the IoT Gateway Meshlium. This integration's announcement includes six new cloud platforms that join Libelium's IoT ecosystem, now comprising more than 100 partners.

Avelacom, a global provider of connectivity and IT infrastructure solutions, has launched a new point of presence (PoP) in the Australian Security Exchange’s (ASX) Australian Liquidity Centre (ALC), Australia’s only data centre dedicated to the financial markets community. The initiative is designed to meet the rising needs of proprietary trading desks and brokerage firms to access Australian capital markets over a single, low-latency network that also connects trading venues in Asia Pacific, Middle East, Europe and North America.

China Everbright Bank (CEB) has chosen Wolters Kluwer’s OneSumX Regulatory Reporting to provide its regulatory reporting software for its operations in Luxembourg.

Fast-developing smaller markets, many of which are in south Asia and Africa, show potential for an ATM boom, at a time of slowing growth in the world’s more mature markets.

Insatiable demand for ATMs in China and India comes to an end

UK consumers give a high amount of trust to their banking provider with 85 per cent of customers saying that they trust them with their personal information and to manage their money effectively, according to a report launched today by SQS, the leading end-to-end quality specialist^[1].

Coupa Software (NASDAQ:COUP), a leader in cloud-based spend management, announced today that it formed a strategic alliance with China-based Aisino Corporation to help global companies with branches in the world’s second largest economy manage their spend on Coupa’s unified platform.

IHS Markit (Nasdaq: INFO), a world leader in critical information, analytics and solutions, today announced new trade technology solutions from MarkitSERV that enable full automation of settlement and margin payments in the cross-currency swaps market, helping firms to reduce financial and operational risk throughout the trade lifecycle.

Verint^® Systems Inc. has completed its acquisition of eg Solutions plc, further expanding automation within its customer engagement portfolio.