German full-service payment provider Novalnet AG, and Europe's leading open banking platform Tink, have partnered to bring a new open banking payment solution to the European payments market. 

illimity Bank S.p.A. (Borsa Italiana: ILTY) ("illimity" or the  "Bank") announces the entry into a binding heads of terms to form a 50:50 joint venture ("JV") with  certain funds managed by Apollo Global Management Inc (NYSE: APO) (“Apollo”) aimed at  investing up to 500 million euro in single-name distressed credit exposure secured by real estate  assets in Italy. 

Horizon Software, a leading provider of electronic trading solutions and algorithmic technology, announce today their partnership with Terranoha, a unique AI platform, to integrate Robotic Process Automation (RPA) solutions into its financial system in order to digitize and automate communication to clients and accelerate digital transformation.

 According to a new report by Mastercard, which conducted in-depth research into how prepared European countries are to embrace the open banking ecosystem, the Nordic countries have been crowned best placed to take advantage of it, together with the UK. 

Worldline [Euronext: WLN] the European leader in the payments and transactional services industry, has rolled out its next-generation Cloud-based solution, putting to good use the experience it has gained in managing customer interactions over a period of 20 years. WL Contact now supports customer communications of over 100 banks, mainly located in Belgium, The Netherlands, Germany and Luxembourg.

 GigaSpaces, the leading provider of in-memory computing platforms that drive digital transformation, announced today performance metrics demonstrating that GigaSpaces InsightEdge combined with a HPE Superdome Flex server from Hewlett Packard

NCC Group plc, (LSE: NCC, "NCC Group" or "the Group"), the leading independent global cyber security and resilience advisor, is pleased to provide the following update in advance of publishing its preliminary results for the year ended 31 May 2021 (FY21).

The Board expects revenue for FY21 to be slightly ahead of the prior year and for Adjusted EBIT (subject to audit) to be towards the higher end of consensus expectations ¹, owing to better than expected trading towards the end of the year.

CHL Mortgages has partnered with Twenty7Tec to offer intermediaries wider access to      its product range following its return to the specialist buy-to-let market.

Digital information and document security specialists, Locklizard, have announced their latest document DRM solutions. These have been designed to prevent users from sharing documents and also allow access to documents to be disabled so that they can't be opened or accessed from unauthorised devices or locations.

At a time when remote working is increasingly dominating the way we all work, Locklizard’s latest security update delivers a necessary security step for an increasingly unpredictable digital world.

Commenting on the Fed’s more hawkish view with two rate increases by end-2023, Jesús Cabra Guisasola, Associate at Validus Risk Management, said: “As most investors anticipated, the Fed left its monetary policy unchanged, with rates near zero and continued buying of bonds at the current $120bn monthly pace. However, all eyes were on the median dot which displays policy makers’ projections of the target interest rate which is now showing more hawkish view with two rate increases by end-2023.