Securus Technologies announced today that it has signed a definitive Stock Purchase Agreement to acquire JPay Inc. JPay is the market leading technology company that introduced electronic payments, email and a host of entertainment and educational related apps to the corrections space, and currently operates in over 33 state prison systems.

 Eze Castle Integration, a leading provider of strategic IT solutions and private cloud services to the investment industry, today announced it has expanded its Information Security Consulting Service to Hong Kong and Singapore. Eze Castle Integration's security consultants provide development and audit services for Written Information Security Policies (WISP), enabling clients to address the administrative and technical safeguards necessary to withstand a cybersecurity incident.

Celoxica, the leading provider of accelerated market data, order entry and pre-trade risk solutions for the electronic trading community, today announced the launch of the Celoxica Ticker Plant (CTP) for OPRA.
 
OPRA, the Options Price Reporting Authority, which provides market data for 12 US options exchanges, is set for a substantial growth in message volumes later in 2015 when new options exchanges ISE Mercury and BATS EDGX Options go live. OPRA’s message capacity at that time is projected to be in excess of 50 million messages per second.
 

Thomson Reuters today announced the addition of foreign exchange trading capabilities for corporate treasurers on its flagship financial markets desktop Thomson Reuters Eikon. The Company has integrated FXall QuickTrade, its state-of-the-art request for stream service, to provide corporate treasury customers trading smaller FX volumes with a complete solution that combines news, data and market analysis with direct access to 140 FXall liquidity providers.

 Horizon Software announced today that Paris-based algorithmic prop house Alize Trading has gone live with Horizon Platform to develop its algorithmic trading business.

Working to stop financial crime before it happens is nothing new to the financial services industry. Adapting crime prevention strategies to the changing nature of fraud is a challenge that many financial institutions (FIs) are increasingly making an effort to address. Fraudsters use various novel schemes to take advantage of new payment channels and FIs must understand these emerging security threats and adapt their financial crime risk management strategies accordingly - in order to protect their customers’ financial assets. 

 Guidance Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: GUID), makers of EnCase®, the gold standard for digital investigations and endpoint data security, today announced the publication of its vendor-agnostic Inside-Out Security Framework and will discuss it at Black Hat USA2015.

CSC, which currently serves over 100 banking and financial services clients in 15 countries, will provide its core banking, cards, payments and default management industry software and product development expertise to the venture. HCL, which draws 25% of its revenue from the banking sector, will provide capital investment, experience in product engineering and application implementation services, as well as banking sales and client engagement expertise.

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