There’s a lot of jostling at the top of the tech leaderboard as we move into 2017. Mergers and acquisitions (M&As) are a good way for companies to climb that board. They help businesses rapidly expand their skill set, customer base and revenue.

But in the digital era, how does that work in practice? When a merger or acquisition takes place, in large part it’s the information exchange that matters. But how do you merge two companies whose essential data resides in different on-premise and cloud systems?

Why is data so important?

Numerix, the leading risk technology provider, has won two XCelent 2017 awards as part of Celent’s recent research, “FRTB and the Upcoming Renaissance in Market Risk Management – Evaluating Ecosystem Solutions.” Authored by Cubillas Ding and Dennis Kong, the report completes a three-part series assessing the current market and solution landscape for FRTB. 

Secure Trading, the online payments specialist, is today announcing its intent to begin a new phase of business development. Following a significant growth period, where the company accomplished multiple awards for both its payment gateway and acquiring platform, and also became one of the fastest growing merchant acquirers in Europe, it now plans to nurture this growth.

UI LABS and Mastercard today announced a new partnership intended to improving the access to and use of urban services, such as transportation. This collaboration will empower City Digital, UI LABS’ urban infrastructure innovation platform to test a series of hypotheses, maximizing Mastercard technology and insights.

InvestCloud Inc., a global FinTech firm, has partnered on a new program with the City of Boston and Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh to let families to create long-term savings plans for their children’s education. This partnership serves as another proof of the growing need for wealth management services. 

They may be the most closely tracked generation in human history. But it's remarkable how much we've gotten wrong about millennials.

Marketing strategies devised for millennials by older generations have been based on bad intuition, poorly curated data, and unquestioned, incomplete assumptions. That leads to bad guesses. When you're designing banking and payment systems for your next generation of customers, bad guesses can be expensive.

Mobile World Congress brings together the biggest names in mobile, and the build up to Barcelona is always dominated by talk of ‘big-ticket’ product launches.

To be successful, however, mobile technology must be both secure and interoperable. It may be less glamorous, but hacks and failures can have a catastrophic impact on a brands’ image, reputation and, ultimately, their bottom-line.  

So, behind the attraction of the latest VR solution and mobile handset launches, what will be the hot topics critical to achieving deployment success?

Vested, a new communications agency for a new financial industry, today announced the launch of Vested startups. This new division of Vested will make strategic investments in and provide communications services to startup companies in the finance and technology space.  

Ask anyone on the street, and they’ll probably tell you that using electronic, or paperless, billing and statements is a good thing. When introduced more than a decade ago, paperless billing was touted as an environmental savior; by driving more customers online to receive and pay their bills, fewer natural resources are used and less waste is introduced into the environment.