Synechron, Inc, the global financial services consulting and technology services provider, has today announced a distributed ledger technology (DLT) collaboration with R3, the enterprise software firm.

TerraPay, the world’s first mobile payments switch and Instant Cash, one of the fastest growing money transfer companies in the world, have teamed up to enable real-time cross border money transfers to mobile wallets. Powered by TerraPay’s global clearing and settlement service for mobile wallets, the partnership will make cross-border money transfer faster and convenient for the migrants.

IHS Markit (Nasdaq: INFO), a world leader in critical information, analytics and solutions, today announced the launch of a new service designed to help investment firms comply with MiFID II’s RTS 28, which requires them to publicly report their top five trading venues by asset class.

SIX Financial Information has launched a new tax and regulatory data service, enabling international banks to automatically allocate tax rates for securities subject to the Belgian TOB. The new service is commercially available now on a global basis. As part of the Belgian TOB, there is a new requirement for the tax on any transactions carried out by Belgian taxpayers through foreign banks to be reported to the authorities in Belgium. This means foreign banks that support a Belgian client base are having to explore how to offer the appropriate tax services to their clients.

SimCorp, a leading provider of investment management solutions and services to the global financial services industry, today announced that Novo Holdings A/S, a holding and investment company, owned by the Novo Nordisk Foundation, has selected SimCorp Dimension as its new investment management platform across its investment business.

Sharpfin AB, a Stockholm-based company developing the next generation of wealth management software, partners with leading Nordic equity crowdfunding platform Invesdor to raise funding.

As cryptocurrency use continues to rise across the globe, one of the most important aspects of cryptocurrency itself has been missed. 

While everyone is busy trying to figure out how to make money from cryptocurrency, these digital currencies are just minding their own business, doing their thing, and creating a lot of opportunity. 

AQMetrics, the award-winning provider of regulatory compliance and risk solutions, today announced the addition of two new clients, Appian Asset Management Limited (Appian) and Macrosynergy Partners LLP (Macrosynergy), to its growing client portfolio.

QR codes have already transformed payments in China. They are becoming increasingly popular in India and other countries promoting cashless economies.

But did you know QR codes can be integrated with mobile money? Youtap has developed new solutions and apps that make it easy.

The Youtap Merchant App enables payments with static and dynamic QR codes; the Youtap Pay App allows customers to pay by scanning the merchant’s QR code or presenting a subscriber QR code.

2018 is set to be a very interesting year - particularly if your role has anything to do with payments or data. The go live date for PSD2 is Saturday 13th January and GDPR a short five months later, on Friday 25th May. Both these high profile initiatives are being driven by the European Commission and the combined implications in terms of what needs to be done in order to comply with these directives are pretty hefty. And the impacts felt by both the industry and the consumer are set to be far reaching.