NRS, part of Accuity, today announced that it has acquired FIRE Solutions, a leading provider of compliance and education products and services to the broker-dealer community and an industry leader in securities exam preparation. Palm Ventures, LLC is the lead investor in FIRE Solutions along with The Palmer Group. The acquisition is part of NRS’s strategy to provide a comprehensive, single-source compliance portfolio to its clients that will enable them to fulfill their regulatory requirements.

 Baker Hill, a leading provider of technology solutions for common loan origination, relationship management and smart data analytics, was named as a member of the 2016 FinTech Forward 100 list of the leading technology providers in the world. Baker Hill credits its inclusion on the list and steady growth to financial institutions’ rising demand for competitive lending and business intelligence solutions.

 Wolters Kluwer is holding its annual EMEA Client Conference for Financial Services in Vienna this week. The event, which starts tomorrow, brings together the firm’s valued clients from across the region, allowing them to discuss finance, risk and regulatory reporting trends and challenges.

SIX Financial Information, a global provider of top-quality reference data, market data and added value services, and Infront, a leading trading and information solution provider in the Nordics, today announced their future collaboration to provide a better service for their customers in Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Norway.

BinaryOnline, the recently launched broker, announces new and unique elements on its trading platform: two binary options social trading tools, available with no additional costs to all members, old and new.

Stonebriar Commercial Finance is a rapidly growing diversified commercial finance company seeking to provide creative financing solutions for middle market and unrated borrowers that are underserved in the current market from a capital perspective. “Adding real estate financing and sale-leaseback capabilities to our capital solutions is the next logical step in the evolution of our Company into a full-service capital provider,” said Dave B. Fate, President and CEO of Stonebriar.

Mastercard today announced the European roll out of Identity Check Mobile, a new payment technology application that uses biometrics like fingerprints or facial recognition to verify a cardholder’s identity, simplifying online shopping. The technology is now being introduced across 12 markets in Europe. These markets include the UK, Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Hungary, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, and Sweden, following a series of successful trials in the Netherlands, the U.S., and Canada.

The Canadian Credit Union Association (CCUA), which represents more than 300 credit unions and caisses populaires outside of Quebec, is partnering with Diebold Nixdorf to transform the financial self-service landscape for its members. More than 1,200 Diebold Nixdorf automated teller machines (ATMs) with supporting software and maintenance services will be installed over the next three and a half years.

I’m always blogging about replacing core systems, open source the bank, change the leadership to one that gets it and just do it.  I’m saying it so much that I’m finding myself boring.  So let’s change tack.  Who’s the vendor?