Sterling Capital Management, an investment manager offering equity, fixed income, and asset allocation investment solutions, announced today it recently surpassed $50 billion in assets under management.  

OTC Markets Group Inc. (OTCQX: OTCM), operator of Open, Transparent and Connected financial markets, today announced the expansion of its relationship with QUODD Financial Information Services("QUODD") that will make 

Monet (Private) Limited announced today that it is a Grand Challenges Explorations winner, an initiative funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The company is actively pursuing an innovative global financial and development research project to enable universal acceptance of mobile money payments.

iMeta Technologies Ltd., a leader in Client Onboarding and Entity Data Management technology for financial institutions, today announced that industry veteran Mark Bands has been appointed to the role of Head of Product Strategy and Regulatory Intelligence. In this capacity he will be responsible for leading the development strategy and continuous improvement of iMeta’s Assassin platform.

Kyriba Corp., the global leader in cloud Proactive Treasury Management, announced that it now has more than 1,000 organisations and 45,000 users worldwide, making it the world’s largest single platform treasury management software solution. Kyriba added nearly 100 new clients in the first half of 2015. More than any other single platform treasury management software, corporations trust Kyriba to optimise their cash, manage their risk, and work their capital.

Hudson, Mass.-based Avidia Bank is one of the first financial institutions in New England to offer Cardless Cash ATM access thanks to their partnership with FIS™ (NYSE: FIS), a global leader in banking and payments technology as well as consulting and outsourcing solutions.

Fiserv, Inc. (NASDAQ: FISV), a leading global provider of financial services technology solutions, announced today that it has been presented with a vendor award for outstanding performance for anti-money laundering (AML) solutions by Aite Group as part of their “2015 Global AML Vendor Evaluation.” AML Risk Manager from Fiserv was acknowledged as the “Most Extensible Solution” in the report.

 Genpact (NYSE: G), a global leader in designing, transforming, and running intelligent business operations, today announced the expansion of its Genpact OpenWealth® business, which provides wealth management services to wrap platforms, insurers, banks, brokers, wealth, and asset managers into the U.K. market, by closing its acquisition of the U.K. OpenWealth platform from Citibank, N.A. With this market expansion, Genpact adds a center of excellence in Glasgow, Scotland with approximately 140 wealth management professionals, serving key U.K. clients.

The Corporate Solutions business of Nasdaq (Nasdaq:NDAQ) and 

MiFID II is one of several financial industry directives being implemented across Europe at the moment, and all are designed to improve the fairness and transparency of the financial services industry – January 2017 might seem a way off, but it is closer than you think.  Setting aside whether or not you agree with the specific measures these directives create opportunities and challenges for the IT departments of every financial services organisation.