The chancellor's Spring Statement confirms that, despite Brexit uncertainty, the strength of the underlying economy means there are great opportunities in the UK for equity investors.

British stocks have, over the last thirty years, been the darling of asset managers around the world. Investors in the UK benefit from a business-friendly environment, minimal regulation, good corporate governance and dividends paid in pounds. They also get automatic diversification thanks to the broad range of globally facing companies in the FTSE 100.

ITRS Group (“ITRS”), the leading provider of real-time monitoring and analytics, has been selected to provide ITRS Capacity Planner to CDL, a leading provider of software solutions for the insurance market. ITRS Capacity Planner (formerly Sumerian Capacity Planner) will initially be used with CDL’s flagship Strata solution to provide capacity management and planning to enhance customer experience and efficiency.

Top Image Systems Ltd., today announced that it has filed, on March 12, 2019, its definitive proxy in connection with the Company’s previously announced acquisition by Kofax Holdings International Ltd. 

Reference is made to the joint press release by Thales (Euronext Paris: HO) and Gemalto (Euronext Amsterdam and Paris: GTO) dated 27 March 2018 in relation to the launch of the recommended all-cash offer by Thales for all the issued and outstanding shares of Gemalto (the Offer), the publication of the Offer Document, and the joint press release of Thales and Gemalto dated 10 August 2018 in relation to the further extension of the Acceptance Period. Terms not defined in this press release will have the meaning as set forth in the Offer Document.

Tomorrow marks PSD2’s next deadline – the point by which banks must make their open APIs available for testing by payment and account information service providers. Danny Healy, financial technology evangelist at MuleSoft has thoughts on it. Danny leads a team that helps banks and fintechs alike make the most of the APIs they’re being compelled to expose under the legislation, and believes that the industry should be interpreting the next phase of PSD2 as an opportunity to differentiate themselves.

IHS Markit (Nasdaq: INFO), a world leader in critical information, analytics and solutions, today announced that the wealth arm of Australian Unity, a national health, wealth and living mutual company, is live on thinkFolio.

PanXchange, a Denver-based OTC physical commodity exchange and price discovery platform, today announced a partnership with CQG, a leading global provider of high-performance solutions for trading, market data, technical analysis, and risk and account management. Through this new partnership, CQG’s global clients gain access to PanXchange’s cutting-edge frac sand pricing data.

Apricorn, the leading manufacturer of software-free, 256-bit AES XTS hardware-encrypted USB storage devices, today announced results from their latest social media poll which found that sixty five percent of respondents believe that humans pose the biggest threat to their personal data.