CloudMargin, creator of the world’s first and only collateral and margin management solution native to the cloud, today announced the appointment of Karl Wyborn to the new role of Global Head of Business Development, effective immediately.

MDOTM, a fintech startup that develops AI-driven strategies and quantitative models to support banks and asset managers in their investment decisions, continues to grow with Andrea Caletti and Paul Holleran joining to manage Business Development. In accordance with the long-term development strategy, the two professionals will focus on European and UK institutional investors to speed up its international scale-up.

Bank offerings and customer expectations are evolving fast. For each specific client need, specific solutions need to be built, requiring lots of investments, IP and expertise. To keep up, banks can’t afford to reinvent the wheel every time. Therefore they are opening up, and welcoming the win-win collaboration with specialist third parties that can help them improve their offering. Depending on scope, those partners can be large (typically well-established core banking providers) or small (innovative niche service providers).

Solactive announces that Deka, one of Germany’s leading asset management flagships, chooses Solactive as the index provider of choice for three new benchmark ETFs. The respective ETFs track two fixed income indices from the corporate and sovereign space as well as one equity index, which incorporates the thirty largest German stocks. The ETFs are primarily targeted to institutional investors looking for highly liquid ETFs by offering full physical replication and no securities lending.

Specialist RegTech provider Shield is proud to announce that it has opened a London Office, as demand grows for its award-winning cross regulation compliance platform amongst financial institutions in The City and across the capital.

 TAB (The App Business) welcomes Judopay to its partner ecosystem, to unlock effortless mobile payments and take advantage of the radical shift in consumer behaviour towards mobile purchases. Judopay will join the partner ecosystem that TAB draws on to deliver frictionless checkout and payment experiences for clients. 

FIME has supported the Taiwan Association of Information and Communication Standards (TAICS) to standardize contactless transit fare collection and micro retail payments. To address the challenges presented by varying standards across different devices, FIME was tasked with defining specifications and establishing certification requirements.

 Financial institutions should take a more holistic approach to fraud prevention or risk losses spiralling out of control, according to a new report published by European payments industry leader Nets.

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Volante Technologies Inc., a global provider of technology and software as a service to accelerate digital transformation and payments modernization, today announced two senior strategic hires to drive the continued growth of the company.

Executive in Residence and Non-Executive Board Director Harp Grewal has now been appointed COO with responsibility for managing and delivering on the Company’s growth.