We are pleased to announce the appointment of Gonzalo Benedit as Workday’s new president of EMEA and APJ. Gonzalo has taken on overall responsibility for Workday’s continued growth and success across the EMEA and APJ regions and has succeeded Chano Fernandez, who was recently appointed executive vice president, global field operations. 

Norwegian software vendor Commercial Banking Applications (CBA), has launched the IBAS Instant Payments Solution to support the processing of real-time payments for European banks.

CBA has been listed as a Frontrunner Service Provider by EBA to support banks in connecting to the EBA Clearing Instant Payment System.

Boole Server, Italian provider of data-centric solutions, helps private users to protect their personal documents and sensitive data. Today, everybody sends e-mails and shares files, but there is an urgent need to do it in a secure way — as all the recent cases of cyberattacks have shown. Since the goal of Boole Server is to guarantee total privacy and security, for Summer 2017 it will offer its BooleBox Cloud Individual at a special price of $9.99/month.

The October Club, a committee of philanthropists based in the City, officially launched its partnership with its chosen annual charity, Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Trust, at the House of Commons yesterday. The event was hosted by Baroness Wheatcroft, a Conservative politician and previous editor-in-chief of The Wall Street Journal Europe, and Chairman Mark Pumfrey, Head of Liquidnet EMEA, and attended by the October Club’s Committee, the MS Trust and October Club supporters.

9 Spokes, the business insights dashboard for SMEs, is pleased to announce it has signed a letter of intent (LOI) to provide a white-label version of the 9 Spokes platform to Royal Bank of Canada (RBC). 

The Authority of Qianhai Shenzhen-Hong Kong Modern Service Industry Cooperation Zone (Qianhai Authority) and the Financial Services Regulatory Authority (FSRA) of Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM) entered into a new partnership to further develop and promote closer investment and financial innovation opportunities and collaborations for enterprises in Qianhai, Hong Kong and Abu Dhabi. 

NICE today announced that Metro Bank, a rapidly growing United Kingdom-based challenger bank, has selected NICE’s leading Workforce Management (WFM) solution to support its UK operations. 

As part of the modernization of its information system, BMCE BANK OF AFRICA selected the MEGARA© suite by VERMEG as a solution for managing the securities business. The new platform has been in production since 2nd of May.