Synechron Inc., a global financial services consulting and technology services provider, has today announced the launch of its Blockchain Accelerator Program that includes its first six blockchain applications available in the cloud. These applications enable financial services firms to be up-and-running on a blockchain network or in a ‘sandbox’ environment within weeks.

Equiniti, a leading provider of specialist software products and services for financial services firms, today announces that it has entered into an agreement to provide its Core Pancredit technology to Axcess Financial Europe (AFE), for its new online portal Square Today.  Square Today is a new lender in the UK loans market providing customers with simple, easy to manage short term loans.

SmartStream Technologies, the Transaction Lifecycle Management (TLM^®) specialist, today announced that Bank Mendes Gans (part of the ING Group) has implemented SmartStream’s Corona Cash and Liquidity solution and will go live in the last quarter of 2016 - in order to continue to meet regulatory requirements, such as BCBS 248 for intraday reporting, for managing 500,000 transactions per month.

Contego, the multi-source fraud reduction platform, today announced that Luup, a leading provider of merchant services for internet and e-commerce businesses, specialising in cross-border payments, has selected Contego’s platform to carry out checks on companies and individuals based in the UK, Europe and North America to help ensure compliance with Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Know Your Customer (KYC) requirements.

Banc Intranets, a provider of secure, web-based enterprise content management solutions for financial institutions, announced that Murphy Bank implemented its DirectorsLink® board portal to reduce operational costs, streamline communication and increase engagemen

Accenture and Oracle have announced that infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) offerings will now be available through the Accenture Oracle Business Group, adding to the already-existing software-as-a-service (SaaS) and platform-as-a-service (PaaS) capabilities. The expansion of capabilities further positions Accenture as Oracle’s largest global systems integrator (GSI) and a leader in Oracle Public Cloud.

BNL, BNP Paribas Group, announces the availability of a fully electronic PIN code distribution for their cards. The service, called cl SecurPin, is provided by TAS Group – a company specialized in software solutions for e-money and cashless payments – and manages a “dematerialized” PIN code, both at issuance and in case of replacement for lost, with unrivalled benefits in regards to security and convenience.
 
BNL adopted this new service on Hello Mat! debit card from Hello Bank!, the BNP Paribas Group's digital bank active in Italy.