BCSG, the award-winning cloud application marketplace provider, announced today that it is partnering with Westpac to offer the MyBusiness Assist platform to their small business (SME) customers.

MyBusiness Assist is a platform of innovative applications, handpicked to help small businesses be more efficient. The included applications will help SMEs plan for the future, manage their cash flow, stay legally compliant, safeguard computer files and design their website.  

Thomson Reuters has today announced that it is extending the services it provides within CME Group’s co-location facility located in Aurora, Illinois to include managed real-time data feeds and its low-latency news service, providing customers with high-performance, high-quality content while lowering the cost of ownership.

Smart devices are on track to replace cash and cards as UK mobile payments are projected to hit over £1.2bn a week by 2020, according to research by Visa Europe.

ClusterSeven, a leading provider of end-user computing (EUC) management solutions, today announced that it has been ranked as a best-of-breed vendor in the Chartis Operational Risk Management Systems for Financial Services RiskTech Quadrant^® for 2015.

SunGard, one of the world’s leading financial software companies, today announced the opening of its East African office in Nairobi, Kenya. By investing in and establishing a physical presence in Kenya, widely regarded as the financial services hub for East Africa, SunGard will reinforce its commitment to the region and is well positioned to execute on its strategy of achieving accelerated growth in these markets.

Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (NYSE: BR) has received the Inside Reference Data award for "Best Managed Service for Reference Data" for the third consecutive year. The awards, which are judged by end-users in financial firms, recognize industry excellence within market data, reference data and enterprise data management. 

Spirent Communications’ device intelligence solution Tweakker has been selected by Prepaid Wireless Wholesale (PWW), North America’s largest mobile virtual network enabler /aggregator (MVNE/MVNA).

 UK companies wasted more than £2.3bn on non-EU international payments in 2014, according to a report from FXcompared Intelligence, the independent research division of FXcompared. A lack of awareness of better bank rates or non-bank foreign exchange and international money transfer services is revealed to unnecessarily add billions of pounds to the cost of exporting and importing, with SMEs suffering disproportionally.

 HID Global®, a worldwide leader in secure identity solutions, will be showcasing its broad offering of citizen ID solutions at Secure Document World 2015.