The 15 winners of the ninth edition of the Tech Trailblazers Awards – a global awards program focused on enterprise technology startups – were announced today. The program rewards winners in 12 major enterprise technology sectors, identifies one outstanding company entrant from any category, and makes two awards to individual female and male executives who have delivered outstanding innovation or change.

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the premier market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, today announced its acquisition of Publicis Sapient’s Compliance Management Reporting System (CMRS), which will be integrated with the DTCC Report Hub service to create the industry’s most comprehensive pre and post trade reporting solution. 

Erik Nordahl has been announced as partner and CTO at United Fintech which launched last month to transform banks and fintechs in capital markets.

United Fintech plans to acquire and scale a range of pioneering small to medium sized engineering-led fintech companies, all with a proven capital markets product; and to partner with banks to help them to access and onboard these innovative fintechs.

Tourmaline Partners, LLC, one of the world's leading outsourced trading solutions firms, today announced two senior hires to meet growing demand for its outsourced and supplemental trading services: Keir Collins, based in Dallas, and Yuki Shimada, based in Sydney.

Exterro Inc., the preferred provider of Legal GRC software and the Association of Corporate Counsel’s exclusive Alliance Partner for E-Discovery, Data Privacy and Cybersecurity Compliance, announced today it has acquired AccessData, the industry’s leading provider of digital forensic investigation technology.

The Bank of England has appointed self-service cloud-native delivery platform Appvia to support the creation of a new cloud environment.

The announcement follows a public procurement process which commenced in January 2020. The Bank of England will work with Appvia on design, construction and assurance of a modern, fit for purpose cloud environment.

What will happen in payments in 2021? Sirpa Nordlund, SVP Industry Engagement at Nets, shares her views on three big trends to expect next year.

1. In 2021, we'll see the war of platforms continue.

In anticipation of the recently announced U.S.