Akana announced that its Akana Platform will power the app development efforts at the upcoming Barclays Hackathon. By joining forces with Barclays to sponsor the July 20-21 Hackathon, Akana and Barclays will showcase the same technology that the bank itself is using to manage APIs in its Barclays Developer Network (BDN), a strategic platform for exposing and managing APIs external to Barclays.

Getting your first mortgage can be an intimidating process. With so much terminology to try and get your head around, not to mention understanding the finer points of the various different options from which you can choose, no wonder so many people find it quite daunting.

Profit performance experts Vendavo and Patrick Reinmoeller, Professor of Strategic Management at Cranfield School of Management, are calling for organisations to increase their focus on margin. With political instability, falling corporate profit and fluctuating commodity prices taking hold, it is more important than ever that organisations place a greater emphasis on understanding and improving margin.

 Path Solutions, a leader in Islamic banking software solutions and services, is proud to announce that it was named ‘International Core Banking System Provider of the Year – Islamic Finance’ for the third consecutive year at the ACQ5 Global Awards 2016. Hot on the heels of this recognition came a second accolade, also from ACQ5 for the company’s iSHRAQ*Microfinance solution which has won the same category last year.

The Wirecard Group, with its Turkish subsidiary Wirecard Ödeme Ve Elektronik Para Hizmetleri A.Ş, today announced the integration of credit card payments in the online shop of Burger King® in Turkey. Within this arrangement, Wirecard handles the entire payment process. Thus, Burger King® Turkey is the first and only fast food company accepting online and mobile payments.

 Emerging Payments Association (EPA), the representative trade body advancing payments innovation, is calling for nominations to join its new advisory board, following a survey conducted at the UK’s first Women in PayTech event on 6^th July 2016.

Tipalti, provider of the leading global supplier payments automation platform, has released findings from a survey of finance and business executives that identifies operational trends for supplier payments in 2016. The study, “Global Payments Operational Trends,” conducted by market research firm Gatepoint Research and sponsored by Tipalti, found that 45 percent of respondents spend more than six hours per week making supplier payments. Additionally, according to the survey, another 22 percent of those surveyed spend an excess of four hours a week onboarding new payees.

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The House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee will next week take evidence from the Deputy Governor of the Bank of England on blockchain technology, the distributed ledger that allows Bitcoin to function as an online currency.

The session comes as the Bank of England explores the possibility of central banks using digital currencies.

The Committee will also hear from academic experts and financial services professionals engaged in the developing technology.

 Colt PrizmNet, the financial extranet developed by Colt, will enable connectivity to TRADEcho’s multi asset APA solution for pre- and post-trade reporting, enabling capital markets firms to comply with the new trade reporting obligations due for implementation in January 2018 as part of MiFID II.

 WEX Inc. announced a new virtual payments agreement with global insurance technology provider Aquarium Software. Aquarium specializes in developing solutions for niche insurance sectors including pet, travel and gadget.