FlexTrade Systems, a global leader in multi-asset execution and order management systems, today announced that South Africa-based Sanlam Investments has chosen the FlexTRADER EMS to facilitate global cross asset trading alongside FlexAlert for real-time iOS and Android mobile notifications.

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 First Data Corporation (NYSE: FDC) will release its fourth quarter 2016 financial results before the market opens on Monday, February 13, 2017. The release will be available at investor.firstdata.com.

The company will host a conference call and webcast to review these results on Monday, February 13, 2017 at 8 a.m. ET. To listen to the call, dial +1 (844) 826-3033 (U.S.) or +1 (412) 317-5172 (outside the U.S.). The call will also be webcast on the Investor Relations section of the First Data website at investor.firstdata.com along with a slide presentation to accompany the call.

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Tudor Aw, head of tech sector at KPMG UK, comments on Prime Minister Theresa May’s proposals for a Modern Industrial Strategy. 

The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) jointly with Money & Banking Magazine announces that 62 companies and nine CEOs have been nominated for SET Awards 2016 to be held on February 2 in Bangkok.

Sage fulfills promise to give Small & Medium Businesses access to the best business solutions with major transformation of its popular Sage 50 accounting package

Sage, the market leader in cloud accounting software, has today launched Sage 50c - the next step in Sage’s continuing mission to help Small & Medium Businesses access the best technology and innovation.

Fifth Third Bank is partnering with venture capital (VC) firm QED Investors to bring new products and services to their banking customers.

The VC firm will advise the Ohio-based bank and support its NorthStar strategy to “enhance offerings through technology”.

Tim Spence, executive vice-president and chief strategy officer for Fifth Third Bank says the partnership “should enable us to identify new, high-potential technologies to complement our internal R&D and innovation efforts”.

Financial adviser firm DeVere Group has unveiled its own private bank, DeVere Group Bank St Lucia.

The company says the launch “has been facilitated” by the acquisition of St Lucia-based Arton Bank for an undisclosed sum. Arton Bank was set up and licensed in 2014 under the Offshore Banking Act 1996.

Founder and CEO of DeVere Group, Nigel Green, says the move into the private banking sector “has been largely driven by demand from clients who are increasingly seeking asset and capital protection and growth, combined with confidentiality”.

Malta-based Bank of Valletta (BOV) is modernising its core banking software with Flexcube from Oracle FSS.

The new solution will “underpin all of the bank’s corporate and retail bank offerings across multiple channels,” according to Taddeo Scerri, BOV group chairman.

It will replace Temenos’ T24 core banking system. Temenos was chosen by the bank in 2010 to replace a legacy solution, Profits, supplied by another banking software supplier, Intrasoft International.