First Trust Advisors L.P., a leading exchange-traded fund (“ETF”) provider and asset manager, has launched seven new ETFs based on the Nasdaq US Smart Sector IndexesSM. The indexes, which are created and administered by Nasdaq, Inc. (“Nasdaq”), are modified factor-weighted indexes designed to provide exposure to US economic sectors. The seven funds are listed below:

First Trust Nasdaq Bank ETF (Nasdaq: FTXO)

First Trust Nasdaq Food & Beverage ETF (Nasdaq: FTXG)

First Trust Nasdaq Oil & Gas ETF (Nasdaq: FTXN)

Northern Trust Asset Management today announced its Goal Engineer Series of target date managed accounts, launched in response to increased demand for robust solutions for individual retirement accounts. The series of seven portfolios provides solutions for investors who are either building for their life in retirement or managing their savings during retirement.

NCR Corporation, the leader in Omni-Channel solutions, announced today that Mark D. Benjamin is joining the company as President and Chief Operating Officer. Benjamin will report to Chairman and CEO Bill Nuti, and will be responsible for Sales, Industry Solutions Management, Product Development, Services and Supply Chain Operations.

 smartTrade Technologies, a multi-asset electronic trading solutions pioneer, announces today the launch of smartAnalytics, a cross-asset big data analytics solution.

 Oracle announced today that 

 Budapest Bank, a leading payment cards issuer in the Hungarian market, has selected SIA, a company specializing in the management of electronic payments, to create and implement a new payment cards management system.

The agreement covers the migration of the full debit and credit cards portfolio of Budapest Bank to SIA’s card processing technology platform and the integration of the SIA solution to the bank’s current services for long-term cooperation.

For the most part the needs of customers and big data analytics make the banking world go round nowadays. And when it comes to the needs of customers the most explicit word to describe their preference in the banking experience is “digital”. NYMBUS SmartCore represents the fully digital core banking solution that enables banks and credit unions to manage a myriad of workflows with single sign- on, add personal touch to the customer relationship and glean cross-sell insights from the structured data.

 Fiserv, Inc., a leading global provider of financial services technology solutions, will open the Nasdaq Stock Market today to mark the company’s 30^th anniversary as a publicly traded company.

The past few years have seen the financial services undergo a period of unprecedented change. While trying to keep up with the ever-changing demands of consumers, FS organisations are also facing a barrage of increasingly granular reporting requirements. Many are struggling to keep up – August saw G20 leaders issued a second warning that some jurisdictions may miss deadlines for implementing new banking regulation.

 Kyriba Corp., the global leader in cloud treasury management solutions, announced today its year over year revenue growth was 30 percent for the first two quarters of 2016. In the same two quarters, Kyriba signed 96 new clients globally. Additionally, new clients fully implemented in this period exceeded 140, which is the highest number of client golives in two consecutive quarters for Kyriba.