Ipreo, a leading global provider of market intelligence and workflow solutions to financial services and corporate professionals, announced its solution for integrating the Ipreo Investor Access platform, which allows investors to electronically submit orders directly to the sell-side syndicate banks on fixed-income new issues, with buy-side trading systems using the FIX Protocol. 

The future success of the financial industry, to a large degree, resides on the pillars: trust, transparency and client-enablement.Technology paves the way for an effective implementation of these ingredients of modern banking. Against this backdrop, Avaloq has gone into partnership with IBO to enable performance rankings in banking, and to increase trust in financial services.

Coupa Software, a leader in cloud-based spend management, today announced that it has been re-certified as 'Built for NetSuite' against the latest NetSuite release 2017.1. The company’s re-certification by NetSuite means that Coupa is able to connect to NetSuite quickly (often within one day) using pre-built NetSuite connectors. This allows customers to spend less time building and maintaining technical integrations and more time focusing on getting fast value from their spend management initiative.

Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. announced today that it has appointed Deborah A. Bussière as Global Chief Marketing Officer, effective May 8.

In this role, Bussière will be responsible for directing Broadridge’s global marketing functions, including execution of the company’s brand strategy, product marketing efforts, corporate communications, and digital and social media marketing. She will report to Chris Perry, President of Global Sales, Marketing and Client Solutions, Broadridge.

Examining IT infrastructure capabilities and reconciling data will be key for meeting the new EFS requirements from the Australian regulator, according to Douglas Cheung, Regulatory Product Manager for Wolters Kluwer’s Finance, Risk & Reporting business in Asia Pacific.

FinTex, the Chicago fintech association, today announced the launch of Currency, a fintech Center of Excellence, dedicated to collaboration, research and sharing of best practices. 

Monitise FINkit can today announce the key findings from its research into senior banking executives’ priorities, challenges, and future plans. The study, carried out by independent researchers LM Research, includes responses from 15 major UK banks and other financial institutions.

Regulation: keeping bank executives awake at night but they are at risk of missing the opportunity presented

Mizuho Financial Group, Mizuho Bank and IBM Japan today announced they are building a blockchain-based trade financing platform. With the platform, Mizuho is aiming to streamline trading operations and improve supply chain efficiency.

I have no academic papers or historical research view on what I’m about to post, although I will find some, but I was reflecting on my discussions of revolutions in humanity.  In particular, the second age of humankind, when we invented money as a control mechanism.