Amor clients already include  BAA, Dubai Airports, Avinor and Finavia, Toronto Pearson International and NATS are now be in a position to  offer terminal and passenger solutions, airport operational database systems for flight information displays, stand management and planning.

John Innes, Amor's CEO says "The FS Walker Hughes business model was very similar to Amor’s with an emphasis on building strong recurring revenues internationally through unique IP and domain expertise."

FS Walker Hughes is based in Manchester and has a strong customer base including BAA, Manchester Airport Group, Peel Airport Group and TBI (including London Luton). The rapidly expanding FS Walker Hughes team, of 25, will remain at their base outside Manchester, taking on the Amor Group name.

The three directors – Ian Forde-Smith, Gary Walker and Geraint Hughes, who have built up the company for the past decade plus, will stay on continuing to lead the development of the Chroma Suite.

Ian Forde-Smith, Solutions Director at FS Walker Hughes says: “We already share a number of clients with Amor Group and respect what they’ve achieved in the market. We have similar innovative, can-do cultures and are looking forward working together to extend the reach and potential of our technology through this deal.”

i-design and joono

An earlier contract with Cardtronics was signed in May last year which covered the deployment of i-design's earlier software on about 3,000 cash machines in the US and UK.

Welcoming the extension of the existing relationship with Cardtronics, i-Design CEO Ana Stewart said: "We believe our technology remains unrivalled in the marketplace and see significant potential for further expansion."

I-design floated on Aim four years ago, saw revenue grow 57% to £1.4m in the six months to the end of March, bringing it close to breakeven. It has also signed a major contract with Barclays after launching joono this month.

Its three divisions are a specialist software arm for global banking networks (clients such as RBS, Santander, Cardtronics Inc, Eurobank, Nationwide Building Society and CIBC); a specialist third party media sales division atmAd provides a fully-managed service, generating substantial revenues from blue-chip clients including Nivea, Vodafone, Coca-Cola and British Airways, and a specialist consultancy division providing insight expertise in optimising digital multi-channel marketing for clients including Travelex, Santander, Barclays, CIBC and Tesco Bank.