Two in five Americans (39 percent) use a mobile device to manage their bank account at least once per month and nearly half of mobile device owners (45 percent) do so, according to a recent survey by the American Bankers Association.

-       Mandatory Electronic Trading of Japanese Yen Interest Rate Swaps Takes Effect

Tokyo, September 1, 2015 — Bloomberg Tradebook Japan Limited (“Tradebook Japan”) today announced the launch of its Electronic Trading Platform (ETP) in Japan, in support of the September 1 mandate for banks and securities firms to use electronic platforms for specified over-the-counter (OTC) derivative transactions.

Markit (Nasdaq: MRKT), a leading global provider of financial information services, today announced the signing of Monex Inc., a leading online securities company in Japan, to its corporate actions service. The agreement will enable Monex to provide validated corporate actions data for all of its offered trading stocks.

• Lexmark announces that the company was named a "Leader" in The Forrester Wave™ ECM Business Content Services, Q3 2015. Forrester evaluated vendors based on current offering, strategy and market presence with selection criteria including breadth of functionality, leadership in content management, a proven enterprise track record, and interest from Forrester clients.
• Lexmark is one of only four vendors recognised as a "Leader" in both the 2015 Forrester Wave for ECM Business Content Services and The Forrester Wave™: ECM Transactional Content Services, Q3 2015.

Equiniti, a leading provider of technology led solutions to clients with complex and regulated administration needs, today announces that it has completed the acquisition of TransGlobal Payment Solutions (“TransGlobal”), announced on 14^th July.  TransGlobal is the technology company that powers the platform for the Group’s foreign exchange payments business, Equiniti International Payments.

Cashfac Technologies, the market leader in Bank-to-Corporate Cash Management solutions, today announced a partnership agreement with NashTech’s IT outsourced development and test operations. NashTech will provide offshore development and test resources for a number of Cashfac’s non-core capabilities from their base in Vietnam. The NashTech resourcing complements Cashfac’s UK based development team and is supporting the expansion of Cashfac’s cash management solutions. NashTech is a division of global IT outsourcing and professional recruitment company Harvey Nash Group.

 In today’s crowded and competitive business environment, startups are seeking global opportunities that will rapidly scale their business. To address this need, MasterCard today announced the launch of Start Path Global – a unique six-month partnership programme for startups that extends Start Path’s existing footprint in a greater number of countries globally across Asia Pacific, the Middle East, Africa and Latin America, as well as in Canada .

SimCorp, a leading provider of investment management solutions and services for the global financial services industry, today announced the appointment of Martin Engdal as Director, Global Product Marketing. In this role, Martin will lead SimCorp’s product positioning and drive go-to-market strategies for SimCorp’s solutions based on current and future technology needs of the buy-side investment management industry.

 WorldRemit, ‘the WhatsApp of money’, today launches remittances to Bosnia and Croatia. Customers in 52 countries can now send money transfers from the WorldRemit app to all Bosnian and Croatian bank accounts. 

Most Bosnians and Croatians living abroad usually have to make inconvenient trips to expensive money transfer agents. With the WorldRemit app, they can now send quick and low-cost money transfers to their friends and family back home, 24/7.

HID Global®, a worldwide leader in secure identity solutions, today announced that it is collaborating with Microsoft to make enhanced cloud app security as simple and convenient as tapping a smart card to a laptop, tablet, smartphone and other NFC-based mobile devices.