At a celebratory luncheon today for Treasury Today Asia magazine’s 2016 Adam Smith Awards Asia, Prudential Corporation Asia was highly commended for Best SWIFT Solution, using the bank connectivity service of Reval, a cloud-based platform for treasury and risk management. Prudential Asia’s Hong Kong-based treasury team leveraged the straight-through processing within Reval to connect to Fides, a third-party SWIFT service bureau.

With Black Friday fast approaching and marking the start of the busiest shopping period of the year, new research from Barclaycard has revealed that frustrated consumers are turning their backs on the high street. As a result, retailers are facing growing pressure to improve their in-store experience, or risk losing out on sales.

We are in uncertain times, again. Which means that exposure to trade credit risk is a concern for business leaders no matter how large or small the company. The aim is to maintain a balance between the opportunities of commerce and the dangers of a payment default or bad debt.  It doesn’t take much to upset that balance, as we can see from the atmosphere of doubt since the results of the EU Referendum in June were announced.

Here in Chicago, we had a truly historic last two weeks – the Cubs won the World Series for the first time in 108 years and we as a nation elected a man to the Presidency that appears to be the most pro-business candidate in decades.  With two landmark events stacked just 7 short days apart, I couldn’t help it … I found myself feeling nostalgic. 

Cambridge is pleased to announce Chris Jenkins has joined the firm as Vice President of Practice Management. In this role, he will lead all aspects of the Practice Management department, including practice management coaching and consulting, technology consulting, business efficiency consulting, and succession planning.

InvestCloud, the cloud-based digital platform for wealth managers, has today announced the appointment of Will Bailey as Executive Vice President for Europe and Innovation.

Bailey will now head up InvestCloud’s European business, which is based in the City of London, and today includes a team of ten sales, pre-sales, professional services and market data experts. Following its recent global client win at JPMorgan Chase and a worldwide distribution agreement with PwC, InvestCloud plans to expand the European team to 20 by the year end.

The Internet of Things (IoT) is everywhere. You cannot flip through a magazine, attend a conference or read a news feed without finding a reference to IoT. With good reason – the IoT has become an important part of the technology landscape, altering the way we live, work, manage problems and conduct business.

IPC, a leading provider of secure, compliant communications and networking solutions for the financial markets community, today announced the launch of Connexus Infrastructure Services (CIS), a managed private and hybrid Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) with global availability at premier colocation facilities. Powered by IPC’s Connexus Cloud, CIS is part of IPC’s Financial Markets Network, one of the industry’s largest secure encrypted communications platforms connecting a community of over 200,000 users across 6,000 market participant locations in 700 cities.

Thomson Reuters today announced the launch of the Thomson Reuters Pricing Service Evaluation Score (“TRPS Score”), a measure of the level of incorporated market color in any given TRPS evaluated price. The TRPS Score incorporates known information associated with an investment instrument’s evaluation, ranging from the level of available market data to the individual attributes of the issue, based on a measurement scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being the maximum score.