A new report from GreySpark Partners, a leading global capital markets consulting firm, examines strategies that investment banks can use to assess the impact of the second iteration of the EU’s Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II) on the profitability of their trade execution businesses.

Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS), the award-winning data research platform and business intelligence tool, announce the addition of 2iQ to its data offerings. A part of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, WRDS provides global corporations, universities and government agencies the thought leadership, data access and insights needed to enable impactful research.

Cummins Allison announces the completion of EMV certification for all its ATMs on the First Data network. This certification includes both Visa and MasterCard.

“The EMV ATM liability shift is causing many financial institutions that are not satisfied with their existing equipment or service to switch providers,” said Bob Gibson, vice president branch operations. “Cummins Allison is pleased to be able provide a state-of-the-art solution for those institutions in advance of the deadline.”

Red Hat, Inc. announced the general availability of Ansible Tower 3, the latest version of its enterprise-grade agentless automation platform. Ansible Tower 3 by Red Hat gives teams the power to scale automation across the enterprise including streamlined interface, more powerful notifications, and explicit permissioning. Ansible Tower empowers users to extend their automation solutions to their entire team, so they can build, share and scale automation cross-functionally and consistently as they build out their DevOps capabilities.

Verafin Inc., a leading provider of fraud detection and anti-money laundering collaboration (FRAMLx) software, this week announced four new full-day educational conferences taking place in October 2016.

ModusLink Corporation announced the launch of its Subscription Solution, available worldwide. The platform-agnostic solution, powered through ModusLink’s enterprise-class Poetic™ software, is the only global full omni-channel offering for creating and managing online subscriptions. It includes functionality such as multiple payment options, financial management and tax services, entitlement management, systems integration, invoicing and fulfillment – all in one, fully-integrated solution.

Sprinklr announced $105 million in new funding at a $1.8 billion valuation. The round, which brings the company’s total funding to $239 million, was led by Temasek, a large, Singapore-based investment firm focused on long-term value creation. Wellington Management Company LLP and EDBI, the corporate investment arm of the Singapore Economic Development Board, also participated along with Sprinklr’s existing investors.

Akana announced that its Akana Platform will power the app development efforts at the upcoming Barclays Hackathon. By joining forces with Barclays to sponsor the July 20-21 Hackathon, Akana and Barclays will showcase the same technology that the bank itself is using to manage APIs in its Barclays Developer Network (BDN), a strategic platform for exposing and managing APIs external to Barclays.

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