UnionPay International Rapidly Expands QuickPass Business Overseas
- 10 years 4 months ago
- Payments, Retail Banking
Based on analyses of Chinese tourists' overseas spending, UnionPay International is rapidly and accurately expanding QuickPass business overseas. Nearly 180,000 POS terminals in Hong Kong, Macao,Taiwan, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore accept UnionPay chip cards with "QuickPass" signage and various mobile QuickPass-enabled products. The overseas transaction volume of UnionPay QuickPass grew 8 times in 2015, and is growing rapidly...
Village Capital and PayPal Partner to Extend Access to Global Financial Services
- 10 years 4 months ago
- Payments, FinTech StartUps, Financial
Today, Village Capital, the venture development organization that finds, trains and funds entrepreneurs working to solve global challenges, and PayPal Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq:PYPL), the global technology platform and payments leader, announced an expanded global relationship to support entrepreneurs focused on democratizing access to financial services for low-wealth individuals, families and small businesses.
NetEase to List on NASDAQ-100 Equal Weighted Index
- 10 years 4 months ago
- Foreign Exchange
Nasdaq (Nasdaq:NDAQ) today announced that NetEase, Inc. (Nasdaq:NTES), will become a component of the NASDAQ-100 Index® (Nasdaq:NDX), the NASDAQ-100 Equal Weighted Index (Nasdaq:NDXE) and the NASDAQ-100 Technology Sector Index (Nasdaq:NDXT) prior to market open on Wednesday, March 16, 2016. NetEase, Inc. will replace SanDisk Corporation (Nasdaq:SNDK).
Fidessa Launches Prospector to Boost Optimized Trading Initiative
- 10 years 4 months ago
Fidessa group plc (LSE: FDSA) today announced the next step in its award-winning Optimized Trading initiative, Fidessa Prospector, which discovers potential trading and crossing opportunities that would otherwise not be found. Sales traders today need to be more efficient than ever before, but this is made harder by the huge volume and complexity of data available to them. Up until now the only tools available have been standalone, located in...
Atom Bank Acquired IT Development Business Grasp
- 10 years 4 months ago
- Banking, M&A Deals
Atom Bank, recently ranked 8th in KPMG’s Global Fintech listing and 1st in Tech World’s Digital Challengers list is delighted to announce the successful acquisition of the IT development business Grasp (UK) Limited, owned by Brian Jobling. As part of the deal, Brian becomes Business Development Director at Atom. The development team from Grasp will now be part of the Atom family, based in Durham, and will bring extensive experience of working...
CipherCloud Selected as a Launch Partner for Salesforce Financial Services Cloud
- 10 years 4 months ago
- Cloud
CipherCloud has announced it is extending the
OTAS Releases Intraday 2iQ Insider Transaction Data
- 10 years 4 months ago
- Transaction Banking, Data
OTAS Technologies (OTAS), a specialist provider of market analytics and trader intelligence, today announced an enhanced product offering with 2iQ, a behavioral finance research firm that provides insider transaction data for over 45,000 stocks worldwide.
Lombard Risk Launches AgileREPORTER Solution
- 10 years 4 months ago
- Security and Compliance, Regulatory Standards
Lombard Risk Management, a leading provider of collateral management and regulatory reporting solutions for the financial services industry, is pleased to announce the launch of AgileREPORTER, its next generation agile solution for regulatory reporting. Today, the company also unveils its new global identity; one that reflects the agility and competitive advantage the firm brings to its clients, and launches its new website.
PYMNTS.com/BlueSnap: Mobile Checkout Lag Behind at Many Merchants
- 10 years 4 months ago
- Payments, Retail Banking
A review of 39,000 data points, across 657 sites and 14 merchant categories shows that merchants are getting worse, not better, when it comes to optimizing their sites for mobile checkout, leaving as much as $152 billion dollars on the table. “Of course, that $152 billion is not lost forever,” says BlueSnap CEO Ralph Dangelmaier, “they are just lost to other merchants who are better able to accommodate a mobile shopper.”
The B2 Group Integrates its Multi-Bank Integrator™ Automated Banking Platform
- 10 years 4 months ago
- Banking, Infrastructure
The B2 Group, provider of financial systems integration solutions announced today, its advanced Multi-Bank Integrator™ automated banking platform for corporate cash and treasury management will now integrate with a number of African banks.
NZX Transitioned To T+2 Settlement Cycle
- 10 years 4 months ago
- Security, Compliance, Regulatory Standards
NZX is pleased to advise it has successfully transitioned to a shortened T+2 settlement cycle for all trades executed on its cash markets effective today, Monday 7 March 2016.
E.Sun iPayment Kiosk Goes Live in Taiwan Thanks to NCR
- 10 years 4 months ago
- Payments, Retail Banking
NCR Corporation, the global leader in consumer transaction technologies, today announced that it has customized the first ever financial kiosk solution in Taiwan for E.Sun Bank - “E.Sun iPayment Kiosk” - which includes bill payment, statement printing, and notes exchange to ease counter queues. The bank also selected NCR APTRA Connections software to run on the kiosk and a fleet of newly purchased NCR SelfServ ATMs to provide personalized ATM...
Lauri Rosendahl Appointed Nasdaq Nordic and Stockholm New President
- 10 years 4 months ago
- People Moves
Nasdaq Inc. (NASDAQ: NDAQ) today announced that Lauri Rosendahl has been appointed President of Nasdaq Nordic and Nasdaq Stockholm. Lauri Rosendahl has been with Nasdaq since 2009 as Senior Vice President and President of Nasdaq Helsinki. “Lauri’s over 25 years of experience in the financial markets coupled with an exceptional leadership and management track record will serve Stockholm well as we continue to lead today’s dynamic exchange...
Trayport Selected by ARAX Commodities to Enhance Trading Power
- 10 years 4 months ago
Trayport, a leading provider of energy trading solutions to traders, brokers and exchanges worldwide, announced today that ARAX Commodities (ARAXCo) have chosen Trayport’s GlobalVision Broker Trading System (BTS) for trading power and agricultural softs in markets across central / south east Europe and the Middle East. ARAXCo, a newly formed commodity brokerage, was established to present new trading opportunities to participants in new emerging...
IdentityMind Global and ONPEX Team Up to Offer Risk-Managed Payment Platform
- 10 years 4 months ago
- Payments, Risk Management
IdentityMind Global, pioneer in digital identities for risk management and digital commerce, announced today a partnership with award-winning ONPEX, The Online Payment Exchange. The partnership will offer ONPEX and IdentityMind Global clients a single integration to manage credit card payments, fraud prevention, risk management and anti-money laundering compliance.
