BT today announced that it is linking up the world’s five main foreign exchange (FX) locations to help boost the competitiveness of its global financial industry customers.  The company is now offering BT Radianz FX express, dedicated high-speed links between financial hubs in the UK, US, Singapore, Japan and Hong Kong involved in almost 77 per cent of the world’s FX trading*.

Buyer-side Pentagon Consulting, provider of advisory and delivery services to the investment management community, has appointed Clare Vincent-Silk as Head of Advisory. The appointment follows the recent appointment of Jonathan Clark as CEO, further bolstering Pentagon’s senior team.

Abel Noser Solutions has launched a new trade surveillance product for compliance officers of broker-dealers, investment advisors and exchanges. The product comes following closely after  a successful limited pre-release to select clients. Compliance+ is a proprietary software solution that enables companies to identify and assess daily potential trade irregularities such as spoofing and layering, potential insider trading, and high cost trades.  The platform provides an easy-to-navigate and graphically attractive front-end to quickly review compliance alerts.

Gemalto (Euronext NL0000400653 GTO), the world leader in digital security, released On Demand Connectivity and eSIM technology for Windows 10 devices, in connection with Microsoft.Gemalto's release is compliant with the latest specifications and guidelines for remote SIM provisioning as specified by the GSM Association (GSMA), a global association of mobile device makers and mobile ne

Crossgate`s Crosscore platform is an API-based integration hub that easies deployment of multiple services that are generally complex for issuers to implement themselves.

Financial IT speaks with Michael Smida, Founder of Twisto Payments at Finovate Europe 2017 

Financial IT speaks to Danny Watkins, CEO and Founder of EarlyBird at Finovate Europe 2017 

The Board of Directors of Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC), a diversified, community-based financial services company with $1.9 trillion in assets, announced today about the election of Karen B. Peetz, retired president of The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation, and Ronald L. Sargent, retired chairman and chief executive officer of Staples, Inc., as new independent directors.

New business models are fostered by growth, competition, technology advances and changing stakeholder demands, according to the survey carried out by Frost & Sullivan's Visionary Innovation Group. CEOs in Asia overwhelmingly rank revenue growth as their top growth objective for the next five years following intense complexity, uncertainty and transformation of the economic landscape. However, the majority indicate that they are challenged by growth strategy implementation, growth strategy and vision congruence, and annual growth rate acceleration.

Financial IT: Kevin, can you give us some brief information about your background and role at IRIS?