Bats Hotspot today announced plans to offer global trading of outright deliverable forwards contracts, with a launch planned for fall 2016.

A division of Bats Global Markets (Bats: BATS), Bats Hotspot is a leading global foreign exchange market with offices in London, New York and Singapore.

“We are excited to expand the Hotspot product offering to include forwards contracts, meeting what we see as a real client need for additional sources of anonymous liquidity in these products,” said Bats Global Markets CEO Chris Concannon.

Groupe BPCE will offer Banque Populaire and Caisse d’Epargne customers Apple Pay, which is transforming mobile payments with an easy, secure and private way to pay that’s fast and convenient when it launches this summer.

Broadridge Financial Solutions, has expanded its global securities financing and collateral management capabilities through the acquisition of 4sight Financial Software Limited, a leading provider of securities finance and collateral management systems to financial institutions worldwide.

Accuity, the leading global provider of risk and compliance, payments and know-your-customer (KYC) solutions, now incorporating FircoSoft, the leading global provider of watch list filtering solutions, announced today that it has been recognized as a category leader in the Watchlist Monitoring Solutions RiskTech Quadrant® of Chartis’ 2016 Financial Crime Risk Management report. Accuity acquired FircoSoft in 2014 and together they specialise in providing data, technology and services to assist in the prevention of money laundering, terrorism financing, and financial transaction tampering.

Linedata, the global solutions provider dedicated to the investment management and credit industries and Electra Information Systems (Electra), the leading provider of state-of-the-art reconciliation solutions for the asset management industry, today announced the integration of Electra Reconciliation and Linedata Global Hedge Portfolio Manager.

Cowen Group, Inc. reported that Kevin LoPrimo has joined Cowen Prime Services (“Cowen Prime”), the prime services division of Cowen, as Managing Director – Head of International Prime Brokerage.