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Microsoft brings market data to the masses

Market moving news and financial data from Refinitiv, formerly the financial and risk business of Thomson Reuters, is to be embedded into a suite of Microsoft services, including Excel, MSN Money and Bing.

16 October 2018

Company announcement/payments

Microsoft to make strategic investment in Grab

Microsoft Corp. and Grab, the leading on-demand transportation, mobile payments and online-to-offline services platform in Southeast Asia, announced a strategic partnership that will transform the delivery of digital services and mobility in the region by leveraging Microsoft’s world-class expertise in machine learning and other artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities.

09 October 2018

News

Mastercard unveils global trade platform

Mastercard has launched a global trade platform, powered by Microsoft Azure, that is designed to streamline and automate the procure-to-pay process for companies around the world.

12 September 2018

Company announcement

Microsoft Pay adds Masterpass support

Microsoft Pay now supports Masterpass by Mastercard, so that consumers can use their Microsoft account for fast and secure checkouts at their favorite retailers that accept Masterpass, without the need to reenter their information.

07 August 2018

News

ICE, Microsoft and Starbucks form cryptocurrency venture

Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) is teaming up with Microsoft, Starbucks and Boston Consulting Group (BCG) to launch a platform that lets people and firms buy, sell, store and spend digital assets such as Bitcoin on a seamless global network.

03 August 2018

Company announcement

FactSet ports data platform to Microsoft Azure

FactSet, a global provider of integrated financial information, analytical applications, and industry-leading services, in collaboration with Microsoft, today launched a cloud-based data platform, FactSet Data Exploration.

24 July 2018

News

CBA, Microsoft and KPMG team on SME business management platform

Commonwealth Bank of Australia has teamed up with Microsoft and KPMG to launch a business management platform for SMEs.

16 May 2018

News

Microsoft to embed payments option in Outlook e-mail

Microsoft is to embed a payments panel into Outlook to enable users to pay bills and invoices directly from their inbox.

08 May 2018

Company announcement

Profile Software ports core banking platform to the cloud

Profile Software, an international, award-winning banking solutions provider, announced today that FMS.next, its leading Core Digital Banking platform, is now available in the cloud.

03 May 2018

News

Saxo Bank migrates to Microsoft cloud

Denmark's Saxo Bank has teamed up with Microsoft in a bid to run its entire technology stack on the cloud.

24 April 2018

Company announcement

StatPro migrates to Microsoft Azure

StatPro Group plc, (“StatPro”, AIM: SOG), the AIM listed provider of cloud-based portfolio analytics and asset pricing services for the global asset management industry, has migrated a key StatPro Revolution portfolio analytics engine to the Microsoft Azure Data Lake Analytics platform.

09 April 2018

News

Microsoft defends support for controversial Cloud Act

A long-running court battle between Microsoft and the US government about whether the latter had the right to access emails held in Microsoft's Irish data centre has come to an anticlimactic end after a judge dismissed the case, ruling it to be "moot" due to the recent passing of the Cloud (Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data) Act.

05 April 2018