IRIS Accountancy Solutions is today warning UK accountants they must future-proof their practices to be ready for the imminent climatic flip set to impact the industry. The company argues changes in the political and legislative landscape, the local and global economy, along with social and technology advances, cannot be ignored.

CK Hutchison Holdings (“CK Hutchison”), a multinational conglomerate spanning over 50 countries, and Ant Financial Services Group (“Ant Financial”), a leading global technology and financial services company and parent company of Alipay, today announced a strategic partnership.  The two companies will form a joint venture (“JV”) to offer a consumer-oriented digital wallet under the ‘AlipayHK’ brand, which will further integrate online and offline payments to bring a truly universal experience for consumers.

Could you please introduce MoneyMatch and its core services? 

E-Invoicing is one of the most important topics around the world representing a key success factor for the digitization of the Supply Chain. For example in Europe, with the new Core Invoice Standard EN16931 now being published, the next huge step towards a wide adoption of E-Invoicing has been done.

CloudTrade, the leading provider of cloud based e-invoicing services, was today named as one of IBM’s worldwide e-invoicing partners.

The partnership means that IBM’S Business Process Service (BPS) customers will be able to incorporate CloudTrade’s proprietary e-invoicing software into their solution, significantly reducing their back-office costs and the time associated with handling and processing invoices.

The European Core Invoice Standard EN16931 has been published on June 28th, 2017. Experts agree that E-Invoicing will be adopted at an even faster pace now also in Europe as already in the rest of the world. Therefore, the need for a global platform to exchange best practices, know how and fresh ideas increases even more.

Trifacta, the global leader in data wrangling, today announced that Leidos, a FORTUNE 500^® science and technology company, has chosen Trifacta as the data wrangling solution for the Leidos Collaborative Advanced Analytics & Data Sharing.

nexo standards, the global industry association dedicated to enabling fast, interoperable and borderless payments acceptance, today announces that HPS, a leading payment software company, has deployed nexo’s protocols across its PowerCARD suite of solutions. By implementing nexo’s standards, HPS is flying the flag for a fundamental shift towards interoperability in the international payments ecosystem, lighting the way for other fintech forerunners to follow.

ULLINK, a global provider of electronic trading and connectivity solutions to the financial community, has partnered with a leading European bank to develop a new solution for client quote management. The new solution, called UL QUOTE, is available to Brokers acting as a Systematic Internaliser (SI), enabling them to comply with MiFID II regulations concerning pre-trade transparency.