GBST, which provides software for administration and transaction processing through its GBST Composer®, GBST Syn~® and GBST SharesTM platforms, today announced the appointment of David Simpson to the position of head of Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Mr Simpson will be a member of GBST's executive team, based in London, and will join GBST in July 2016.

This week at Mobile World Congress Shanghai (MWC Shanghai) 2016, Huawei will share its outlook on a fully connected era driven by openness, collaboration, and shared success. As a platinum partner of the event, Huawei will outline its strategy for accelerating digital transformation across industries, and how it is collaborating with industry players to promote the development of thriving digital economies.

 Nordic digital payments specialist, Nets, has been selected by Danish banking collective, the BOKIS partnership, to launch a new NFC mobile wallet solution powered by its HCE and tokenisation platform.

The BOKIS partnership includes 62 banks that form the small to mid-sized banks segment of the Association of Local Banks, Savings Banks and Cooperative Banks in Denmark, together with five Danish regional banks: Jyske Bank, Sydbank, Spar Nord Bank, Arbejdernes Landsbank and Nykredit Bank.

A Compliance Officer will go to Jail in 2016

Regulation, regulation, regulation.

In the property market there is a saying: “location is everything.”  In capital markets in 2016 the saying will be: “regulation is everything.”

IBM and Cisco announced they will partner to combine the market-leading strengths of each company to transform how knowledge-workers collaborate and work. The companies will form a suite of cloud-based workplace tools and applications infused with IBM Watson.

As part of the transformation, the highly secure Cisco Spark and WebEx collaborative workspace platforms will be integrated with IBM's leading cloud collaboration solutions, including Verse and Connections, and underpinned by IBM's cognitive computing capabilities.

dv01, the analytics platform that brings transparency to lending markets, announced the debut of its portfolio management software for marketplace loans. To date, institutional investors have used dv01's cloud-hosted web application to gain real-time insight into $23.5 billionworth of marketplace loans.

Moneris Solutions Corporation ("Moneris"), one of North America's leading credit and debit card processors, today introduced Dynamic Currency Conversion (DCC) to its offerings for Canadian businesses. Now when an international customer uses their foreign Visa or MasterCard in a terminal, they'll immediately see the cost of the purchase in their own currency and have the option to pay for it in that currency or in Canadian dollars.

IPC Systems, Inc., a leading global provider of specialized communications and managed network-as-a-service (MNaaS) solutions for the financial trading community, today announced the launch of a Financial Markets Cloud service for securely and reliably trading exchange- traded funds (ETFs).