Red Hat, Inc., the provider of open source solutions, and Telefonica Business Solutions, a provider of a wide range of integrated communication solutions for the B2B market, signed an agreement establishing Red Hat Mobile Application Platform as the global reference platform for operators within the Telefonica Group to mobilize the business processes of its customers on their path to digital transformation.

Itiviti’s client connectivity solution provides HUB24 with a rich suite of product functionality based on the Catalys FIX Engine. It ensures highly available quality connectivity and an integrated dashboard for real-time monitoring and system configuration management. Itiviti’s Services team has also developed a custom technology adaptor for integration with HUB24’s investment and superannuation platform.

New research published by the SWIFT Institute investigates the practical application of blockchain (or mutual distributed ledger) technologies in securities markets. 

Workday, Inc. , an expert in enterprise cloud applications for finance and human resources, is expanding its operations into Spain. As a critical part of its strategy to support Spanish customers, Workday also announced that services partners including Accenture, Deloitte, HP Enterprise, IBM and PwC are ready to support Workday deployments in Spain.

 Lennox International  announced that CFO Joe Reitmeier is scheduled to present at the Wells Fargo Securities Industrial and Construction Conference in New York City on Tuesday, May 10. A live webcast beginning at 8:35 a.m. Eastern time can be accessed on the company's website at www.lennoxinternational.com.

Informatica Cloud for Salesforce is the integration and data management solution that helps wealth managers get maximum efficiency in leveraging Salesforce. Informatica Cloud provides connectivity to a variety of channels including cloud, on-premises, mobile and social data sources. Its complete integration suite includes Cloud Data Integration, Cloud Application Integration, Cloud Test Data Management, Cloud Data Quality and Cloud Customer 360 for Salesforce.   

Leicester City are the supreme champions, having decisively booted away all the legacy teams that crossed their path, systematically vanquishing the challenges of the now not so mighty Spurs, Arsenal, Manchester City and even Manchester United, and yes sadly West Ham too. At all times they remained focussed and confident, never deviating from their master plan. Just one season ago, if anyone had predicted that they would win the world's most coveted football league title, everyone would have said they were nuts. But against all odds, 5000/1 odds, they did it - and they did it in style.

Some might remember the surprise, back in March 2012, when it became apparent that an individual personal trader could end up being classed as a high frequency trader (HFT) under MiFID II. Admittedly I’m quite proud of my 10 finger touch-typing skills, but I wasn’t sure whether my ability to type really fast could be held against me one day.

According to insight from Radware’s Emergency Response Team (ERT) the number of DDoS for Ransom attempts worldwide grew significantly during the last week. But most worrying, the ERT has discovered that many of the letters used to request the ransom are fake, yet companies are falling for the scam. 

Radware is warning the financial sector to take caution when assessing the legitimacy of a threat, and to consider seeking expert advice to help decipher the threat level to their business.  

Markit has acquired an interest in commodity markets research and price reporting agency PRIMA.