essDOCS, the leading enabler of paperless trade, announced today the launch of its consulting arm, essDOCS Consulting, as part of focused efforts to expand and optimize usage of digital transaction documents and FinTech solutions by banks and their corporate customers across the globe.

essDOCS Consulting is set up to support:

JetPay Solutions is now fully operational in the UK - and authorised by the Financial Conduct Authority. JetPay has been prevalent in global credit card processing - especially in the Card-Not-Present market and eCommerce for over 25 years in the US.

With numerous change requests being raised by banks from time to time on Integro’s cash management and loan originating product, it became a challenge to ensure that every release provided by developer was good and stable. In addition, some new project joiners required more time to pick up the product knowledge. As a result, some testing scenarios were getting missed out during the regression testing. To solve these challenges, Integro started looking for a good automation tool which can assure the testing quality, in addition to providing script reusability.

 Markit (Nasdaq: MRKT), a global diversified provider of financial information services, has been selected by KfW, Germany’s largest development bank, following its public tender process. KfW will deploy Markit’s enterprise data management (EDM) solution to help drive its BCBS 239 compliance, enable its expansion to a multivendor environment and streamline its data management architecture while further supporting KfW’s liquidity and Portfolio Valuations projects.

 Volante Technologies Inc., a global leader in the provision of software for the integration, processing and orchestration of financial messages, data and payments, together with its South African partner Bytes Universal Systems, have been selected by Nedbank to facilitate the transformation of its financial payments message service layer across multiple Nedbank entities.

ACI Worldwide (NASDAQ: ACIW), a leading global provider of electronic payment and banking solutions, today announced its participation at Sibos, SWIFT’s annual international financial services conference, held October 12-15, 2015 in Singapore.

UK Asset Resolution Limited (UKAR), the holding company established to combine the government-owned businesses of Bradford & Bingley plc (B&B) and NRAM plc, has replaced its treasury and risk platform with SunGard’s Ambit Treasury Management solution.

 AccessPay, the provider of payment automation and business intelligence, today announced the opening of a new sales office in Kolkata, India. With enormous potential for growth within the Indian financial services sector, AccessPay has confirmed its commitment to the Indian payments and banking industry, with the opening of a new sales office.

Checkout.com’s collaboration with Alipay expands its offering of online payment solutions within its unified platform.

 CRC Insurance Services Inc., (CRC) a wholesale insurance subsidiary of BB&T Corporation's principal subsidiary Branch Banking and Trust Company, announced today an agreement to acquire Connecticut Underwriters, Inc. (CUI). Terms were not disclosed.