Fiserv, a leading global provider of financial services technology solutions, has received the 2016 IDC Financial Insights FinTech Rankings Real Results Award for Customer Engagement for pioneering the use of Verifast™: Palm Authentication at Gesa Credit Union in Richland, Washington.

The Real Results Awards are published in conjunction with the annual IDC Financial Insights FinTech Rankings, based on 2015 calendar year revenues attributed to financial institutions. Fiserv ranked fourth out of 125 vendors in the latest IDC FinTech rankings.     

I consider myself a citizen of the world.  I guess that’s because I fly around so much.  Everywhere I go, I find the same thing.  Warm, fantastic people who welcome me like a brother and complain about the idiot running their country.  This is common to every country, just that some idiots are more extreme than others, which is why the people suffer while those in power gain.  That is our way of life.

oday, Citibank announced the launch of Citi Pay, a new digital wallet that will provide Citi customers with a simple and fast option for online, in-app and in-store payment needs.

Mizuho Bank’s Netherlands-based subsidiary has successfully implemented Wolters Kluwer’s OneSumXto provide a solution for risk calculations and multi country regulatory reporting. The leading Japanese bank is already an existing Wolters Kluwer customer across a number of European countries.

SETL, the London based financial blockchain specialist, has appointed national security expert Martin Clements CMG OBE to its board.  

SETL was launched in July 2015 to deploy a multi-asset, multi-currency institutional payment and settlements infrastructure based on blockchain technology. The SETL system will enable market participants to move cash and assets directly between each other, facilitating the immediate and final settlement of market transactions.

jClarity, the Java performance tuning specialists, today announced that Rightmove, the UK's largest property portal has selected jClarity to improve the performance of their property search applications. Rightmove will benefit from jClarity’s specialist performance diagnostics engine, machine learning algorithms and expert Java advice to improve their users’ property search experience.

Neptune, the open-standard network for bond pre-trade real-time AXE indications, today announced the addition of Citi and Deutsche Bank to its network. 

The Neptune network provides a venue for dealers to share information with investors on the bonds that they are looking to buy and sell, making it easier for investors to execute bond transactions.

The U.S. Bank AP Optimizer has received the Business Intelligence Group’s BIG Award for Business as 2016 New Product of the Year in the Business Services category. The organization’s annual program rewards companies, products and people that are leading their respective industries.

Analytic software firm FICO announced today that UK short-term lender Lending Stream has built its credit system using the FICO®Decision Management Suite, a platform for developing decision management applications. Lending Stream uses the system during the credit origination process to match credit terms with each applicant's specific risk and repayment ability.