InvestCloud, the cloud-based digital platform for wealth managers, has today announced the appointment of Will Bailey as Executive Vice President for Europe and Innovation.

Bailey will now head up InvestCloud’s European business, which is based in the City of London, and today includes a team of ten sales, pre-sales, professional services and market data experts. Following its recent global client win at JPMorgan Chase and a worldwide distribution agreement with PwC, InvestCloud plans to expand the European team to 20 by the year end.

The Internet of Things (IoT) is everywhere. You cannot flip through a magazine, attend a conference or read a news feed without finding a reference to IoT. With good reason – the IoT has become an important part of the technology landscape, altering the way we live, work, manage problems and conduct business.

IPC, a leading provider of secure, compliant communications and networking solutions for the financial markets community, today announced the launch of Connexus Infrastructure Services (CIS), a managed private and hybrid Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) with global availability at premier colocation facilities. Powered by IPC’s Connexus Cloud, CIS is part of IPC’s Financial Markets Network, one of the industry’s largest secure encrypted communications platforms connecting a community of over 200,000 users across 6,000 market participant locations in 700 cities.

Thomson Reuters today announced the launch of the Thomson Reuters Pricing Service Evaluation Score (“TRPS Score”), a measure of the level of incorporated market color in any given TRPS evaluated price. The TRPS Score incorporates known information associated with an investment instrument’s evaluation, ranging from the level of available market data to the individual attributes of the issue, based on a measurement scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being the maximum score.

Gemalto, the world leader in digital security, is supplying its Optelio Contactless Stickers to LotteCard – one of Korea's largest credit card networks. The miniature size sticker is one third the size of a sta

Nuvias Group, the pan-EMEA high value IT distributor,today announced it has become a member of the HID Advantage Partner Program. The Program is a loyalty-based program which provides partners with the ability to evolve their relationship with HID Global for scalability and overall growth.

Nuvias Group provides a wide range of value-added services for reseller partners, including sales, marketing and technical support. As a member of the HID Advantage Partner Program, Nuvias works closely with HID Global to enhance end user value.

Just heard a really interesting point of view from Professor Tim Congdon, CEO of International Monetary Research.  He was putting a clearly positive spin from a City viewpoint on the outlook for Brexit.  He began by talking about Medieval times of doing business and stated that most financial activity took part outside the cities they related to, as the cities were highly regulated and structured.  Outside the cities, you could do whatever you wanted.  The reason he started this way is that most European financial market activity developed in London in the 1950s from a Eurobond clearing and

A survey of financial institutions, fintech start-ups and ecosystem participants across Europe, Africa and the Middle East has revealed that the convergence between the strategies of fintechs and traditional financial institutions is rapidly gathering pace.

Niu Solutions, the leading provider of IT consultancy and infrastructure services, along with its partner Profile Software, a leading provider of financial services solutions, has secured a contract with Fiduciam, the trusted lender to SMEs and entrepreneurs, to support the lender’s digitalisation plans and ongoing expansion in the UK.

Calastone, the global fund transaction network has today launched a new whitepaper, “The accelerating power of technology: lessons for the future of fund distribution.” Within the paper, research conducted by Calastone demonstrates that structural changes are being made to include technologists in the makeup of boards and senior management teams across the FTSE-100. This development, Calastone writes, is due to the ever-growing importance of technology as a driver for business strategy and innovation.