Ipreo, a leading global provider of market intelligence and workflow solutions to public corporations and financial services professionals, announced the launch of its enhanced Order Monitor, providing real-time order and investor tracking during live municipal new issue transactions.

 The Hanover Insurance Group, Inc.  announced the launch of Hanover EZPay, a pay-as-you-go solution for workers' compensation policies that allows insureds to pay their premiums in real-time, based on payroll, helping independent insurance agents provide better service to their clients.

Some providers have cast doubt over whether Lifetime ISAs (LISA) will be ready to launch in April. The main reason cited for this delay is a lack of clarity and direction from the Government, as some key details have yet to be published.

Wolters Kluwer Tax and Accounting today announced the launch of a new user interface for CCH® Accounting Research Manager (ARM), the complete research solution dedicated to financial reporting professionals. CCH ARM continues to be the comprehensive solution for expert guidance, efficient navigation, assurance tools, checklists and illustrative examples to ensure compliance for accounting and auditing.

With the dust beginning to settle on the CMA’s proposed banking revolution announcement, now is the perfect time to take a step back and reflect on whether the Open Banking initiative will do enough to encourage competition in banking and unsettle the big four titans of banking.

We all know the old adage that you’re more likely to divorce than change your bank account. 
But that’s all about to change as the banking sector faces its biggest challenge for over thirty years with the introduction of the Competition and Markets Authority’s “Open Banking programme” which will require banks to share their customer data with third party app providers. But what does it mean for consumers? Which non-financial companies might enter the marketplace? And how will banks respond?

Cummins Allison, the leading innovator of coin, currency and check processing technology, as well as ATMs, today announced the completion of EMV certification for all its ATMs on the Vantiv network. This certification includes both Visa and MasterCard.

In August 2016, payment service provider ECommPay began processing transactions on behalf of Wargaming.net, one of the market leaders in the sphere of online gaming.

The strategic partnership promises Wargaming customers an assortment of enhanced capabilities and additional services. In turn, the collaboration with a forerunner of the online gaming industry has expanded ECommPay's client portfolio in this business sector. The payment processer offers online gaming clients bespoke, modern, and secure payment solutions.

2015 was a banner year for M&A with $4.7 trillion in transactional value reported. Many analysts expect this trend to continue especially as the acceleration of technology speeds up and upsets entire markets. Consolidation coupled with these ‘digital disruptions’ puts any organisation into stress-mode.

Data centre providers are positioned to capitalise on the growth in tech-savvy challenger banks as their market share continues to gather pace. By offering flexibility on IT usage and contract lengths, data centres are able to work with these emerging financial institutions to ensure customers are never out of touch with their finances. This is according to colocation data centre provider, Aegis Data.