ClearArc Capital announced today it has been recognized with Top Guns status by Informa Investment Solutions' PSN manager database. The ranking status recognizes top performing institutional investment strategies. Two of the firm’s strategies were among the top 10 performers within one or more peer groups reporting to PSN, the longest-running investment manager database in North America.

Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (NYSE:BR) announced today that it has acquired technology assets of Inveshare, Inc. (“Inveshare”). In connection with the transaction, Broadridge has entered into a development agreement to use these technology assets to develop blockchain applications for Broadridge’s proxy business. The acquisition is expected to accelerate Broadridge’s ability to adapt distributed ledger technology capabilities to its proxy services.

Mahindra Comviva, the global leader in mobility solutions, today announced that the latest version of mobiquity® Wallet, the company's digital wallet platform for financial institutions, leverages key features of iOS 10, the biggest release ever of Apple's operating system.

Exaxe has been shortlisted for the DC Technology Provider of the Year award at the 2016 Defined Contribution (DC) Awards, organised by Pensions Insight, which is due to take place in London on October 26^th. Exaxe has also been shortlisted for the Pensions Technology Provider of the Year at the 2016 Irish Pensions Awards, which is due to take place in Dublin on November 24^th.

Profile Software, an international financial solutions provider, announced today its participation in Sibos 2016 the world’s premier financial event organised by SWIFT, taking place on 26-29 September in Palexpo Geneva, Switzerland, to showcase its pioneering product developments and international implementations.

ACI Worldwide, a leading global provider of real-time electronic payment and banking solutions, today announced a partnership with SWIFT for Alliance Lite2, the cloud-based connectivity to SWIFT. Available through ACI’s global payment processing solution, Money Transfer System (MTS), ACI is offering this new cloud-based connectivity to provide faster, cheaper access to SWIFT.

Cowen Group, announced that Craig E. Zaph has joined Cowen and Company’s investment banking team as the Head of Debt Capital Markets. Mr. Zaph is based in New York and reports to Kevin Raidy, Head of Investment Banking.

Sopra Steria, a European leader in digital transformation and recently selected by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to implement the UK’s largest Digital Market processing platform to satisfy the forthcoming MiFID II Regulation, has today announced a new partnership agreement with Sybenetix, the leading provider of behavioural end-to-end market abuse surveillance, case management and conduct management systems.

Many of the people I meet believe that bitcoin is bad and will fail.  It’s rare to meet anyone who says that it could change the world and will succeed.  But I’ve found one and he happens to have written a very good blog about it: Akin Fernandez, Entrepreneur Developer of Azteco.

It’s a long read, but worth it if you want to be informed.