India is on the move towards digitisation in trade. Our attendance at this year’s GTR India Trade and Treasury Conference in Mumbai certainly confirmed that. With delegates from more than 120 companies and the key banks in the region all energetically networking, we had an excellent opportunity to establish new contacts, strengthen existing relationships and take the pulse of the Indian market. 

Communications and IT services provider KCOM announced today that it has entered into the framework contract as an approved supplier on the UK Government’s Digital Outcomes and Specialists 2 framework (DOS2) which replaces the previous framework from February 2017.

Aquila Capital is expanding its portfolio in the Nordics with the acquisition of its first project in Finland, a wind farm with an installed capacity of 14.4 MW on the coast near Kokkola.

Commenting on the security vulnerabilities uncovered in smartphones, internet-connected TVs and other devices, Martijn Verbree, partner in KPMG’s cyber security practice said:

Idea Cellular, one of the leading wireless operators in India and Mahindra Comviva, the global leader in mobility solution, have announced today that Private Recharge, a unique electronic recharge service for women is now live in 14 telecom circles in India. Private Recharge allows women customers of Idea to recharge their prepaid mobile connection and pay their postpaid bills, at any retail outlet without revealing their mobile number.

Lincs Inspire, which helps people in North East Lincolnshire lead more active and healthy lives through sport, culture and entertainment, is creating a healthier future for itself after implementing a cloud-hosted financial solution from Advanced*. The social enterprise is using a suite of services to ensure its financial and reporting structures are fit, agile and shape a mobile workforce in keeping with its active ethos. 

Thomson Reuters is creating a holistic suite of reporting services that will support the workflow of market participants in their efforts to meet post-trade transparency requirements mandated by the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II). In preparation for the new regulations, the company is working closely with over 50 European exchanges and more than 30 additional venues to onboard new MiFID II content to its Elektron Data Platform.

Ethoca, the industry standard for collaboration-based technology solutions that help card issuers and online merchants increase card acceptance and stop ecommerce fraud and disputes, today announced that for the second consecutive year it has won the PayFORUM Security Award, recognizing successful anti-fraud efforts in France and internationally. In addition, Ethoca has also won the Grand Prix Award recognizing the best innovative solution – a special citation chosen from all PayFORUM award categories.

EBA CLEARING announced today that the future participants in its panEuropean instant payment infrastructure service will be able to use, in addition to SIANet, the Electronic Banking Internet Communication Standard (EBICS) for the exchange of transaction messages with the platform. The Company will introduce EBICS as an additional connectivity option from the start of the service in November 2017 and make it available in the test environment from June 2017.