Recognising the exponential increase in the automation of transactions within the global funds industry, Denmark-based AP Pension has selected Calastone, the global funds transaction network,to provide its order routing services to underpin its administration platform for cross-border trading.

AP Pension administers approximately DKK 100bn of institutional assets from around 2,000 corporate pension schemes across UCITS funds, separate accounts, internally managed and various alternative investment funds.

Ingenico Group (Euronext: FR0000125346-ING), global leader in seamless payment, announced today that Ingenico Payment Services has become a Demandware LINK Partner to enable simple integration between its international payment platform and the Demandware Commerce Cloud.

This partnership will give Demandware online merchants access to Ingenico’s end-to-end solution which includes a secure multi-channel payments solution offering a wide range of international and local payment methods, and a fraud prevention solution.

The leading provider of transaction automation solutions in Central and Eastern Europe, and INETCO^® Systems Limited, a leading provider of real-time transaction monitoringand banking analytics software solutions, have teamed to help financial organizations in the region gain on-demand access to rich customer transaction data through the

Bank of Scotland today announced that its next £5 and £10 banknotes will be printed on polymer, and the first of these will be issued this November to celebrate the bank’s partnership with BBC Children in Need.

Rackspace^® (NYSE: RAX), the #1 managed cloud company, today announced that Zipline Labs, a mobile money movement platform, is leveraging Rackspace Managed Cloud and DevOps Automation Service to power its application and API. With continuous deployment and monitoring, Zipline achieves optimal uptime and performance so it can deliver a seamless, real-time messaging experience to users.

Dinube, Europe’s first payment network that enables consumers to replace credit/debit cards with their smartphones, announces the latest rollout by the $1BN European supermarket chain BonPreu. Dinube’s groundbreaking new payment network uses tokenization, Near Field Communication (NFC) technology and biometric fingerprint security to make card-based payments a thing of the past.

nexo, the association set up to develop and promote open standards for card payments, has announced the findings of a study that explores the benefits of harmonising card payment acceptance for Europe’s leading retailers.

At todays Innovation Finance event that was wonderfully attended and organised the topical issue of Cyber crime was presented. It amazed me that there are so many new vendors producing imaginative system solutions that cover cyber crime protection and prevention.

One thing that came over relentlessly during all the presentations was that anyone and everyone is open to cyber crime and the question is only when it will impact you not if.