Latest news 23 Feb 2012

  Movida, the 50/50 joint venture between Visa and Monitise in India, has signed an agreement with HDFC Bank, India’s second-largest private bank, to introduce a mobile payments service. The new service, which will eventually be rolled out to other Indian banks and is powered by Monitise’s technology platform, will allow... read more

  Some 75 per cent of the British population believe senior executives at banks bailed out during the global economic downturn should not receive bonuses.  New research conducted by YouGov on behalf of Sky News has revealed that a large proportion of people in the UK are against the idea of such professionals being awarded... read more

  HSBC has decided to pay the cash part of its UK workers' bonuses through the issuing of shares due to new rules relating to capital ratios.  That is according to an insider at the major European bank, who has told Reuters that increasing pressure from regulatory bodies on financiers to improve the state of their balance... read more

  Joint development, support, and marketing partnership to deliver integrated enterprise architectures that tackle all aspects of big data processing Teradata (NYSE: TDC), the leading analytic data solutions company, and Hortonworks, the leading commercial vendor promoting the development and support of Apache Hadoop, today... read more

Heartland chooses LoanServ to automate its loan servicing operations for greater efficiency and fewer errors  LoanServ can help maximize loan performance, ensure regulatory compliance and scale with the institution to support additional portfolio acquisitions Fiserv, Inc. (NASDAQ: FISV), a leading global provider... read more

  Scalable, Multi-Bank Portal Connects Buyers, Sellers, Financial Partners Kyriba, the global leader in Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) treasury management solutions, today announced the launch of its Supply Chain Finance technology platform. Fully integrated with Kyriba’s Treasury Management System, the Supply Chain Finance... read more

  OptionsCity Software, a provider of end-to-end electronic trading platforms, has now integrated with Lightspeed Trading, LLC (LST), a New York-based introducing broker. The incorporation of OptionsCity and LST will provide a solution for equity and options traders to access the marketplace more efficiently. OptionsCity’s... read more

  Building on its successful use of SAS in actuarial activities, Spanish insurer santalucía will use SAS Risk Management for Insurance to help meet Solvency II, Pillar I requirements to manage risks and calculate metrics. SAS, the leader in business analytics software and services, is a risk analytics... read more

  PaymentOne’s HTML5 mobile payment API provides developers the easiest way to monetize cross platform apps via direct carrier billing PaymentOne , a global leader in mobile payments, today announced its support for the emerging HTML5 standard and the immediate availability of the PayOne HTML5 API. The PayOne HTML5... read more