Securities America Acquires Certain Assets of Foothill Securities

• 9 years 5 months ago
• M&A Deals

Securities America, a wholly owned subsidiary of Ladenburg Thalmann Financial Services, Inc., announced today a definitive agreement to acquire certain assets of Foothill Securities, Inc., an advisor-owned, independent broker-dealer headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif. Founded in the heart of Silicon Valley in 1962, Foothill Securities currently services the needs of 210 advisors in 12 states with $5.14 billion in client assets and $38...

HBK Investments Advisory SA Welcomes New Co-CIO

• 9 years 5 months ago
• People Moves

Marc Nadas, Director of HBK Investments Advisory SA, announced today that Faraz Sultan has joined the firm to further develop their growing portfolio of clients and products.

Sierra Bancorp Expands its Board of Directors with New Hires

• 9 years 5 months ago
• People Moves

IDFC Bank Parnters with Backbase to Implement its Omni-Channel Digital Banking Platform

• 9 years 5 months ago
• Banking, Infrastructure

IDFC Bank has partnered with Backbase to implement its omni-channel digital banking platform. With this platform, IDFC Bank will be able to provide its products and services to customers through multiple channels synchronously, creating a single multimodal touch point.

Ipreo Unveils its Enhanced Order Monitor

• 9 years 5 months ago
• Infrastructure

Ipreo, a leading global provider of market intelligence and workflow solutions to public corporations and financial services professionals, announced the launch of its enhanced Order Monitor, providing real-time order and investor tracking during live municipal new issue transactions.

Wolters Kluwer Releases New User Interface for CCH® Accounting Research Manager

• 9 years 5 months ago
• Audit and Reporting, Infrastructure

Wolters Kluwer Tax and Accounting today announced the launch of a new user interface for CCH® Accounting Research Manager (ARM), the complete research solution dedicated to financial reporting professionals. CCH ARM continues to be the comprehensive solution for expert guidance, efficient navigation, assurance tools, checklists and illustrative examples to ensure compliance for accounting and auditing.

The Hanover Introduces Pay-as-you-Go Solution

• 9 years 5 months ago
• Payments

 The Hanover Insurance Group, Inc.  announced the launch of Hanover EZPay, a pay-as-you-go solution for workers' compensation policies that allows insureds to pay their premiums in real-time, based on payroll, helping independent insurance agents provide better service to their clients.

Cummins Allison ATMs Now Certified on Vantiv Network EMV

• 9 years 5 months ago
• ATMs

Cummins Allison, the leading innovator of coin, currency and check processing technology, as well as ATMs, today announced the completion of EMV certification for all its ATMs on the Vantiv network. This certification includes both Visa and MasterCard.

ECommPay Helps Wargaming to Process Transactions

• 9 years 5 months ago
• Transaction Banking, Payments

In August 2016, payment service provider ECommPay began processing transactions on behalf of Wargaming.net, one of the market leaders in the sphere of online gaming. The strategic partnership promises Wargaming customers an assortment of enhanced capabilities and additional services. In turn, the collaboration with a forerunner of the online gaming industry has expanded ECommPay's client portfolio in this business sector. The payment processer...

Aegis Data: Data Center Flexibility Brings Benefit to Challenger Banks

• 9 years 5 months ago
• Data

Data centre providers are positioned to capitalise on the growth in tech-savvy challenger banks as their market share continues to gather pace. By offering flexibility on IT usage and contract lengths, data centres are able to work with these emerging financial institutions to ensure customers are never out of touch with their finances. This is according to colocation data centre provider, Aegis Data.

Merchant Risk Council Appoints Roberto Valerio to European Advisory Board

• 9 years 5 months ago
• People Moves

Fraud prevention software company Risk Ident has today announced the appointment of its CEO, Roberto Valerio, to the European Advisory Board of the Merchant Risk Council (MRC). Roberto Valerio founded Risk Ident and leads the day-to-day management of the company, responsible for driving the development of the business to serve companies in need of a modern, intelligent approach to fraud prevention, supported by machine-learning technology.

Atlantic Capital Bank Names Julie Schriver as Treasury Sales Officer

• 9 years 5 months ago
• People Moves

Atlantic Capital Bank, NA announced today that Julie Schriver has joined its team as a Treasury Sales Officer. Schriver joins Atlantic Capital with more than 20 years of experience, most recently with SunTrust, where she served in a similar capacity and was recognized for her remarkable client-centric strategies which produced sustainable portfolio growth for clients across the Tri-Cities and Knoxville area.

Reval Certified as a Great Place to Work®

• 9 years 5 months ago
• Risk Management

Reval, the leading global provider of a cloud-based platform for Treasury and Risk Management (TRM), is now certified as a Great Place to Work® by the independent analysts that review high-trust, high-performance workplace cultures, globally.

IT Asset Management Market Soaring at 7.52% CAGR to 2020

• 9 years 6 months ago
• Asset Management

Blockchain Emerges from Financial Toolbox

• 9 years 6 months ago
• Blockchain, Infrastructure

Distributed ledger technology, more commonly known as blockchain, has great potential to drive simplicity and efficiency through new financial infrastructure and processes, but it should not be seen as the only technological tool forming the foundation of next generation financial services. This is the main finding of a World Economic Forum report entitled, “Opportunities & obstacles: Blockchain and the future of financial infrastructure” ...