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Wholesale banking

Trayport Remit reporting tool available as prototype

02 March 2015 | 871 views | 0

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Trayport today announced the general availability of its prototype online REMIT reporting tool.

Wholesale banking

Finsapp teams up with Volante

02 March 2015 | 900 views | 0

Finsapp and Volante today announced a new partnership to build business domain solutions based on interbank, intrabank and bank to corporate financial data message flows.

Cards

MasterCard recommends rejection of 'mini-tender' offer from TRC Capital Corporation

27 February 2015 | 1868 views | 0

MasterCard (NYSE: MA) announced today that it has been notified of an unsolicited "mini-tender" offer dated February 25, 2015, made by TRC Capital Corporation, a private Canadian investment company, to purchase up to 1,500,000 shares of MasterCard's common stock, less than one fifth of one percent of the outstanding shares of common stock.

Payments

Xoom strikes money transfer deal with Philippines-based Landbank

27 February 2015 | 1414 views | 0

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Xoom Corporation (XOOM), a leading digital money transfer provider, now offers instant deposits to all Landbank peso and U.S. dollar accounts. Landbank joins BDO, Metrobank and PNB - four of the top five banks in the Philippines - with instant deposit service for Xoom customers.

Wholesale banking

UniCredit completes first BPO transaction in Italy

27 February 2015 | 2762 views | 0

UniCredit has today successfully completed the first BPO (Bank Payment Obligation) transaction ever carried out in Italy, for the payment of a commercial operation concluded between SPIG S.P.A., a leading producer of industrial cooling systems based in Arona, in the province of Novara, and one of its German suppliers, a UniCredit Bank AG customer.

Wholesale banking

MGT Capital Investments to merge with Tera

27 February 2015 | 1703 views | 0

MGT Capital Investments, Inc. (NYSE MKT: MGT) announced today that it has entered into a Letter of Intent ("LOI") with Tera Group, Inc., ("Tera") owner of TeraExchange, LLC, a Swap Execution Facility regulated by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission ("CFTC").

Wholesale banking

Vantiv CFO Mark Heimbouch takes on COO role

27 February 2015 | 1276 views | 0

Vantiv, Inc. (NYSE: VNTV), a leading provider of payment processing services and related technology solutions for merchants and financial institutions of all sizes, announced today that Mark Heimbouch's role has been expanded to include leadership of the company's technology and operational functions.

Trade execution

TickCOM launches automated trading front end for smartphones

27 February 2015 | 1769 views | 0

TickCOM, the technology leader within strategy development for automated trading, is releasing an automated trading frontend iSTRAT oriented at the Smart Phone market.

Payments

TransferWise founders brave New York cold for naked 'nothing to hide' publicity stunt

26 February 2015 | 2549 views | 0

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Just weeks after landing a $58 million funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz, TransferWise founders Taavet Hinrikus and Kristo Käärmann today led a naked protest through the heart of New York's financial district.

Retail banking

Linedata reports Spanish bank tie-up

26 February 2015 | 1760 views | 0

Linedata (NYSE Euronext : LIN), Linedata, the global solutions provider dedicated to the investment management and credit industries, has for the past year been working with a leading Spanish bank to develop its consumer credit and auto finance business in Latin America.