Broadridge Financial Solutions announces the promotion of Michael Collins to the role of vice president and general manager of Mutual Fund Proxy Voting and Solicitation. Collins will lead the mutual fund proxy voting business and focus on strategic planning, client relations and regulatory oversight.

 kyc.com, the joint venture between Markit  and Genpact announced that PIMCO has selected kyc.com, and Markit, a leading global provider of financial information services, to complement its due diligence and onboarding requirements.

Fenergo, the leading provider of Regulatory Onboarding and Client Lifecycle Management software solutions for wholesale and private banks, celebrated the official opening of its new office in Abu Dhabi at a launch event hosted by the Ambassador of Ireland to the United Arab Emirates on May 4th.

FIS continues to earn honors that recognize the realization of those efforts.

For decades, the company has been developing innovative payment solutions. Two of its newest offerings were recently honored by the 2016 PYMNTS Innovator Awards and 2016 Pay Awards.

FIS Loyalty Fuel Redemption, the industry’s first solution that allows for single-swipe redemption at the point of sale, thus enabling consumers to pay with a participating loyalty card and redeem points toward the purchase, won Best Point of Sale Innovation Award at the 2016 PYMNTS Innovator Awards.

The fraudsters’ calculation is simple: where there’s a great deal of revenue to be earned, there’s a great deal of fraud to be committed. And where there’s even more revenue to be earned, there’s even more fraud to be committed. In international e-commerce, the signs are pointing the way to increased revenue – and the fraudsters have already muscled in with new techniques.

Trend 1: E-Commerce is an Easy Target

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SmartStream Technologies, the Transaction Lifecycle Management (TLM^®) specialist, today announced that Haytham Kaddoura has been named CEO of SmartStream and will be working with Philippe Chambadal who will be assuming the role of President. With the recent formation of the SmartStream Reference Data Utility (RDU), the success of the Fees Management Utility and in anticipation of upcoming acquisitions, Mr. Chambadal will focus on these and other strategic initiatives.

BankservAfrica, headquartered in Johannesburg and operator of Africa’s largest interoperable payments switch, will implement the INTIX Data Management technology to financial institutions’ customers located in South Africa and other African countries.