The past few years have seen the financial services undergo a period of unprecedented change. While trying to keep up with the ever-changing demands of consumers, FS organisations are also facing a barrage of increasingly granular reporting requirements. Many are struggling to keep up – August saw G20 leaders issued a second warning that some jurisdictions may miss deadlines for implementing new banking regulation.

 Kyriba Corp., the global leader in cloud treasury management solutions, announced today its year over year revenue growth was 30 percent for the first two quarters of 2016. In the same two quarters, Kyriba signed 96 new clients globally. Additionally, new clients fully implemented in this period exceeded 140, which is the highest number of client golives in two consecutive quarters for Kyriba.

Calastone, the global funds transaction network, has today announced that it has reached a significant milestone in its global expansion, with its network now providing over 10,000 trading links worldwide.

IBM today announced The Clearing House, a national payments system operator for the U.S. banking industry, has selected IBM to help deliver a new real-time payments system due to roll out in 2017. Set to transform domestic digital transactions, the real-time payments system (RTP) is designed to enable consumers and businesses across the U.S. to send and receive payments instantaneously.

AxiomSL, the leading global provider of regulatory reporting and risk management solutions, announced today that one of the big four US banks has chosen AxiomSL’s capital calculation and reporting solutions for their two European subsidiaries in the UK and Ireland, as well as for their branches in the Netherlands, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Belgium, Germany, Italy, France and Spain. 

 Fidessa group plc has today published a new paper that looks at the ways in which high and low touch trading are adapting to meet the realities of trading in capital markets today.

IRIS Software Group has agreed to acquire Level10 Ltd including its forecasting and reporting software Gearshift; enabling accountants to provide greater value to their clients in the run up to Making Tax Digital.

Gearshift provides IRIS accountants with reporting and forecasting capabilities, enabling them to deliver high-value advisory services to their clients through its integration with KashFlow. The forecasting software is designed to predict long and short term funding needs more accurately, making more from data and informing smarter business decisions.

Kickstart Accelerator, an initiative of digitalswitzerland and one of Europe’s largest multi-corporate, zero equity tech accelerators, will host its mid-term demo day at 10:00 – 19:00 CET on Wednesday, 21 September 2016. The demo day will provide the 30 start-ups with an opportunity to present their products to a panel of international investors.

Infront, a leading trading and information solution provider for professional investors, today announced a partnership with RSRCHXchange, to provide its institutional clients with access to the RSRCHX platform, the online marketplace for institutional research.

The partnership makes institutional research, from more than 140 research providers, available on the Infront Terminal from 21 September and will provide Infront clients with a seamless integration between global real-time market information and research published on RSRCHX.

The Chilean company specializing in biometric identity verification and electronic signature TOC has recently created the International Management area which will be led by Andrés Landerrretche (52), a lawyer at the University of Chile and former diplomat.