A new report from GreySpark Partners, a leading global capital markets consulting firm, explores the impact that the second iteration of the EU’s Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II) will have on the investment research marketplace – forcing operators to itemise research payments separately from other fees, charges and commissions.

MoneyFarm, the digital wealth manager, has announced a new strategic investment from Allianz Ventures. They will take a minority shareholding in the company.

Launched in 2012 and arriving in the UK in 2016, MoneyFarm sees Allianz’s investment as a proof point for the progress MoneyFarm has made in the fast growing digital wealth management sector

 DH Corporation ("D+H") (TSX: DH), a leading provider of technology solutions to financial institutions globally, today announced it has rebranded its flagship financial messaging platform as Total Messaging. Previously known as Global Messaging Plus, Total Messaging is the technology gateway for D+H’s financial messaging service bureaus. D+H’s financial messaging platform was originally launched in 2013 and helps banks and corporations improve performance and reduce costs while meeting the highest standards of reliability and security.

Disruption is normally seen as being bad news for incumbents. This is not necessarily the case.

The previous edition of Financial IT provided a comprehensive overview of Blockchain. This edition of Financial IT, whose publication coincides with the Sibos conference taking place in Geneva on 26-29 September, covers the other main source of disruption for financial services executives. If that other source could be summarised in one word, that word would be: FinTechs.

Today at Sibos 2016, the World Trade Board unveiled three key initiatives to drive the trade finance agenda. The commitment follows the World Trade Symposium, held in June 2016, co-organised by Misys and the Financial Times. It marks a move to facilitate and expand global trade in support of long-term economic growth and prosperity for people across the world.

Building on yesterday’s InsurTech theme, I remember being taught the principles of insurance some years ago.  A key difference between insurance and any other business is that it is seller beware rather thanbuyer beware.  This is why the industry is built with a principle called uberrima fides rather than caveat emptor.   Uberrima fides is Latin for utmost good faith, and determines that the insurer can trust your declarations when you apply

GFT, the global provider of advisory, business consulting, IT and software services to the financial services community, announces its membership of Google’s Partner Programme. This new collaboration allows GFT to deploy its distributed ledger test infrastructure for banks on Google’s Cloud Platform, helping global banking clients to simulate real-world distributed ledger models within a globally distributed and scalable test environment.

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IBM announced new offerings to help commercial banks rapidly enable new services for customers using real-time payments. This will allow them to take advantage of new immediate payment schemes now in development in Europe, Asia and the United States. Once deployed, these systems will allow consumer transactions to clear in seconds, speeding access to funds such as payroll and insurance claim reimbursements.