IPC, a leading provider of secure, compliant communications and networking solutions for the financial markets community, today announced the launch of Connexus Infrastructure Services (CIS), a managed private and hybrid Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) with global availability at premier colocation facilities. Powered by IPC’s Connexus Cloud, CIS is part of IPC’s Financial Markets Network, one of the industry’s largest secure encrypted communications platforms connecting a community of over 200,000 users across 6,000 market participant locations in 700 cities.

Thomson Reuters today announced the launch of the Thomson Reuters Pricing Service Evaluation Score (“TRPS Score”), a measure of the level of incorporated market color in any given TRPS evaluated price. The TRPS Score incorporates known information associated with an investment instrument’s evaluation, ranging from the level of available market data to the individual attributes of the issue, based on a measurement scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being the maximum score.

Gemalto, the world leader in digital security, is supplying its Optelio Contactless Stickers to LotteCard – one of Korea's largest credit card networks. The miniature size sticker is one third the size of a sta

Nuvias Group, the pan-EMEA high value IT distributor,today announced it has become a member of the HID Advantage Partner Program. The Program is a loyalty-based program which provides partners with the ability to evolve their relationship with HID Global for scalability and overall growth.

Nuvias Group provides a wide range of value-added services for reseller partners, including sales, marketing and technical support. As a member of the HID Advantage Partner Program, Nuvias works closely with HID Global to enhance end user value.

Just heard a really interesting point of view from Professor Tim Congdon, CEO of International Monetary Research.  He was putting a clearly positive spin from a City viewpoint on the outlook for Brexit.  He began by talking about Medieval times of doing business and stated that most financial activity took part outside the cities they related to, as the cities were highly regulated and structured.  Outside the cities, you could do whatever you wanted.  The reason he started this way is that most European financial market activity developed in London in the 1950s from a Eurobond clearing and

A survey of financial institutions, fintech start-ups and ecosystem participants across Europe, Africa and the Middle East has revealed that the convergence between the strategies of fintechs and traditional financial institutions is rapidly gathering pace.

Niu Solutions, the leading provider of IT consultancy and infrastructure services, along with its partner Profile Software, a leading provider of financial services solutions, has secured a contract with Fiduciam, the trusted lender to SMEs and entrepreneurs, to support the lender’s digitalisation plans and ongoing expansion in the UK.

Calastone, the global fund transaction network has today launched a new whitepaper, “The accelerating power of technology: lessons for the future of fund distribution.” Within the paper, research conducted by Calastone demonstrates that structural changes are being made to include technologists in the makeup of boards and senior management teams across the FTSE-100. This development, Calastone writes, is due to the ever-growing importance of technology as a driver for business strategy and innovation.

EFG Hermes, a leading financial services corporation in the Arab World, and Saxo Bank, the online multi-asset trading and investment specialist announced today the signing of a strategic partnership agreement, which will enable full integration of Saxo Bank’s SaxoTraderGO platform with EFG Hermes’ new online trading platform, EFG Hermes One. The new platform will grant clients one-click access to financial instruments in both multiple Middle East and North Africa (MENA) markets as well as global exchanges.

Insight, Microsoft’s largest global reseller, has announced that its customers are now able to use American Express Cards for all transactions with the distributor, covering its full range of IT solutions and services.

To celebrate the announcement, American Express Cardmembers are being offered three months’ free premium technical support when they take out a 12-month cloud-based Office 365 subscription through Insight. Cardmembers will be able to purchase this through Insight’s easy-to-access, online portal.