Thomson Reuters has signed a definitive agreement to acquire REDI Holdings, a trading technology pioneer whose flagship REDIPlus execution management system (EMS)  provides advanced cross-asset class trading capabilities to the buy-side. The acquisition is expected to close by the end of Q4 subject to customary closing conditions including regulatory approvals.

Digital Keystone, the leading provider of portal technology for platforms, asset managers and wealth managers, was awarded the much-coveted ‘Best Use of Platform Technology Award’ at this week's Schroders UK Platform Awards 2016. The award recognises its exemplary work to deliver straight through processing capabilities as well as highly visual online new business user journeys and interfaces for IFAs using the Aegon Retirement Choices Platform (ARC).

Qlik®, a leader in visual analytics, announced that Moody’s Analytics, a leading provider of credit analytics and data, has selected Qlik for its RiskBench™ solution, an innovative online platform for benchmarking and estimating default and recovery risk. The RiskBench solution combines Moody’s Analytics global data assets and credit risk models with data visualization technology powered by Qlik Sense®, enabling credit market participants to improve monitoring of portfolio risk, to evaluate market expansion opportunities, and to estimate expected credit losses.

NCR Corporation, a global leader in omni-channel solutions, announced the launch of Business Banking Mobile, extending the SaaS-based platform to customers’ mobile devices. The application will allow community financial institutions (CFIs) to compete with larger financial institutions by providing their business banking customers with iOS and Android access to this secure and easy-to-use account management platform.

Moody’s Analytics, a leading provider of credit analytics and data, today announced the launch of the RiskBench™ platform, an innovative solution for benchmarking and analyzing credit portfolios. Credit market participants can use the RiskBench platform to improve monitoring of portfolio risk, to evaluate market expansion opportunities, and to estimate expected credit losses.

Following the referendum result I believed that ‘Brexit’ would be a big blow to the UK’s micro-business sector and I still believe this to be the case.

In the run up to the vote, the overwhelming majority of micro-business owners and freelancers were in favour of the UK remaining in the EU because they didn’t think a ‘Brexit’ would be beneficial for their own businesses or the economy in general.

Tyler Technologies, signed an agreement with San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department in California for Tyler’s SoftCode™, a complete civil process software suite, to help improve customer service through increased efficiencies and transparency. The agreement is valued at $1.1 million and includes software licenses, related professional services, data conversion and support.

Akana, a leading provider of API Management, API Security, API Analytics and Microservices solutions for Digital Businesses, announced today that it will be joining Barclays Bank to support its upcoming hackathon at Rise in Manchester, UK and Mumbai, Indi

New global research conducted by analyst house* Ovum, reveals that ledger technology is set to become the de facto structure for some capital market infrastructures. But in other areas of financial services, as in other sectors, adoption of the technology will take far longer or it may not be applicable at all.

Wolters Kluwer offers the best global financial services software according to Corporate Visionmagazine. The publication has awarded the firm’s OneSumX suite of solutions its Best International Financial Services Software accolade for 2016 as part of its annual Technology Innovator Awards.