Welltower announced it has completed the previously announced acquisition of the Vintage Senior Living portfolio for a purchase price of $1.15 billion. The 19-property portfolio offers a combination of independent living, assisted living and memory care in premium locations concentrated in Southern and Northern California, including the Los Angeles and San Francisco metro markets.

Profile Software, an international financial solutions provider, announced today that its solutions for the Wealth Management industry were the winners in two of the four categories at the Celent’s report, “European Wealth Management Technology Vendors: Evaluating Front-to-Back Office Platform Vendors” and earned the XCelent Awards for wealth management in “Technology” and “Customer Service” on the ABCD Vendor View, among top International Vendors.

So you think current “tap and go” payments are cool? Then brace yourself for finger recognition technology. The concept is rather straightforward: biometric authentication uses pattern-recognition techniques based on images of human finger patterns. This, as you can imagine, has great potential in the electronic payments area.

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SoftBank Group Corp will form SoftBank Vision Fund (tentative name) (the “Fund”). The Fund intends to make investments in the technology sector globally. The Fund will be managed in the United Kingdom by a subsidiary of SBG and will deploy capital from SBG and investment partners. The Fund will aim to be one of the world’s largest of its kind*.

The Banner Corporation is pleased to announce Judy Steiner has joined the company as Executive Vice President and Chief Risk Officer. In this role, Ms. Steiner is responsible for overseeing the company’s risk and compliance functions as well as the Bank’s interactions with industry regulators. She is also a member of the Bank’s Executive Management Committee. Ms. Steiner is replacing Tyrone Bliss, current risk officer who previously announced his retirement effective later this month.

Alexander Goulandris, CEO, essDOCS talks about paperless trade and supply chain digitization at Sibos 2016. He also comments on the recently signed deal between Misys and essDOCS.

I am an optimist. You don’t have to look too far for proof of that. I opened the doors to UFT Commercial Finance in June of 2008 and found myself just a few short months later looking down the throat of a market monster that promised to swallow our new little business up whole. No ceremony. No remorse. Just the simple laws of economic selection; the young and the small are the first to fall.  In a market environment that was successfully taking down the oldest, the biggest, and what were supposed to be the strongest, most people would have said we didn’t stand a chance – and they probably w

 Perficient, Inc., the leading digital transformation consulting firm serving Global 2000® and other large enterprise customers throughout North America, today announced it has acquired Bluetube, a $7 million annual-services-revenue digital consultancy with deep expertise in enterprise mobile applications.

The acquisition is expected to be accretive to adjusted earnings per share immediately.

Kount, a leading provider of fraud detection and sales boosting technology, announced today that it is now fully compliant with the EU-US Privacy Shield Framework for protection of EU-US data transfers, which replaced the longstanding International Safe Harbour Privacy Principles in July 2016.