Why terms extensions without financing innovation will be damaging your competitive position

 Nasdaq (Nasdaq:NDAQ) today announced the completion of its acquisition of Marketwired, a leading global provider of news distribution services and analytics for communications professionals. 

AxiomSL, the leading global provider of regulatory reporting and risk management solutions, announced today that it has opened a new office in Poland, in response to increased demand in Central and Eastern Europe from financial firms which must comply with a range of new regulatory requirements.

A team of 15 has been employed at the new office in Wrocław – the largest city in western Poland, which is renowned for its university of technology. The team will be developing and implementing new regulatory solutions for the Central and Eastern European markets.

 Saga, a leading provider of financial and travel products for the over 50s, has engaged contact centre technology specialist Sabio to support its contact centre infrastructure at sites in Folkestone and Thanet.

FlexTrade Systems, a global leader in multi-asset execution and order management systems, today announced the integration of Symphony Communication Services LLC’s platform with FlexTRADER EMS. The integration brings secure and compliant messaging directly into the trading blotter for any FlexTrade clients using Symphony.

Customer data and the opportunities for creating innovative business models out of it has become a recent favorite topic of mine. I spoke on the topic at FinTechStage Luxembourg’s dinner overview hosted by Luxembourg for Finance and the Luxembourg Ministry of Finance, and we had an audience of banking CEOs and fintech influencers keen to find out more about the power of data in solving universal financial services problems.

Banks must refine and modernise their approach to data management to be effective in the era of the Quantified Self

The world is undergoing a data revolution. We are in the midst of the Quantified Self and real time personal data and performance measurement.

The way big businesses in the financial services sector discover and implement innovation is shifting, with the launch of venture teams, accelerator panels and internal ‘incubators’ bringing a start-up mentality to corporate organisations. Big businesses are embracing this concept of ‘intrapreneurship’, an entrepreneurial approach where teams and individuals are driving new venture ideas from within the organisation, according to Peter Sayburn, co-founder of Market Gravity, the proposition design consultancy. 

Saxo Bank, the online multi-asset trading and investment specialist, announces today a new co-Branded Introducing Broker (IB)  partnership with Bank of Valletta, the largest commercial bank in Malta.
 

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