Asset Control today announces the appointment of Gary Appleby as Head of International Sales with immediate effect.

Payment21® and ACI Worldwide today announced a strategic collaboration enabling payment service providers (PSPs) to offer merchants anti-money laundering (AML)-compliant Bitcoin acceptance via ACI’s UP eCommerce Payments solution.

As more businesses deploying IoT systems need applications compatible with their preferred cloud provider, DataV cross-platform apps uniquely addresses this challenge by being utilizable on multiple cloud IoT platforms.Industrial IoT applications can be deployed in conjunction with Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Microsoft Azure IoT platform services as well as standalone or IaaS deployments on any cloud.

TiVo Corporation is a world's  leader in entertainment technology and audience insights. Today the company announced that TiVo and Sky, Europe’s leading entertainment company, has joined forces to deliver voice search for Sky’s next-generation box, Sky Q. TiVo is providing Sky Q with a natural language, voice-based search solution, making it quicker and easier for Sky Q customers to find the content they are looking for.

The Avaloq group, an international fintech company and a leader in integrated and comprehensive banking solutions, announces that it has partnered with Warburg Pincus, a global private equity firm focused on growth investing, to acquire a ~35% shareholding in the company from existing shareholders. The transaction values Avaloq in excess of CHF 1 billion. Detailed financial terms are not being disclosed.

Spanish banking group BBVA is contributing information on card transactions to a United Nations project trying to tap big data to combat climate change. 

With the growth of electronic trading in FX markets, Asia Pacific has become one of the fastest growing regions for currency trading.

Partnership between Thomson Reuters and SAP makes World-Check Data content available to customers within the SAP® Business Partner Screening application. It is thought to  improve vigilance across the globe for organizations and management of third-party compliance and risk challenges.

Bittium exhibits its innovative products and mobile security solutions at the British APCO exhibition to be held in Telford, United Kingdom, March 21 – 22. The event is directed at authorities and one of the main themes of the event is UK’s transition starting in the year 2018 from TETRA-based call and messaging applications to the Emergency Services Network (ESN), where LTE broadband solutions will be used for the communications of police, fire and ambulance services.