Financial advisers are regarded as having a key role to play in stopping people making costly errors when it comes to decisions about their pensions, according to a new survey by Intelliflo.

Thomson Reuters, the world's leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals, and SimCorp – a leading provider of investment management solutions and services for the global financial industry – today announced the installation of a dedicated adapter enabling portfolio managers to access DataScope Select pricing and reference data through the SimCorp Dimension software platform.

eLong, Inc. (Nasdaq: LONG), a leading online travel company in China (the "Company" or "eLong"), today announced the sale by Expedia, Inc.

PrivateBancorp, Inc. (NASDAQ: PVTB) today announced that its stockholders have approved all proposals at the 2015 annual meeting.

PrivateBancorp stockholders approved the following proposals:

McObject’s exclusive distributor for the financial markets in the UK and Europe, is raising investment through Crowdcube, the UK’s largest Crowd Funding site. www.crowdcube.com/MCOEurope to fund growth and expansion.

“In the third week of September 2014, thousands of people organised themselves into neat lines that snaked along the city blocks of New York, Seattle, and London. Sleeping in cardboard boxes, or keeping wakeful vigil through the night, they were participants in a biennial ritual”. This description written in The Atlantic , was not, as you might think, a description of some religious ritual or of the public reaction to the latest One Direction album.

 Elliptic, the full-service bitcoin custodian for the capital markets, has partnered with developer API providerGem to further accentuate Gem’s offering of the world’s most secure multi-signature bitcoin wallets.

The SWIFT Institute announces the availability of new research that for the first time investigates the consequences of outsourcing different types of services by mutual funds in Europe.

Only 40 per cent of UK consumers would still rather use their bank for international money transfer services than any other available platform, according to research from FXcompared Intelligence, the research division of FXcompared. This lack of a preference for bank-based transfers is seen across a range of currency transaction values.