Cordium, a leading global provider of compliance consulting, accounting, tax and software to the financial securities industries, has been named Best Advisory Firm (Regulation and Compliance) at the HFM US Hedge Funds Services Awards. The accolade completes the global set for Cordium following its success at the HFM Asia Fund Services awards where it took the title of Best Advisory Firm (Client Service), having previously been named Best Advisory Firm (Regulation and Compliance) and Best Independent Platform (Mirabella) at the European ceremony.

Equiniti Pancredit, a provider of credit sourcing and loan software for the lending and consumer finance industry, has today announced 14 new appointments.

The expansion follows a 38% year-on-year revenue growth in FY2014.

Path Solutions, a global provider of Sharia-compliant software solutions and software-enabled services to the Islamic financial services industry, today announced that it was named ‘Best Islamic Technology Provider’ in Islamic Finance news Best Service Providers Poll 2015, as voted for by the publication readership of Islamic finance professionals.

 FXCM Inc. (NYSE:FXCM), a leading online provider of foreign exchange (FX) trading and related services, today announced that is has upgraded  its Index CFD and Spread Bet market making technology which enhances its index trading offering.  

The definition of algorithmic trading under MiFID II is extremely broad, essentially capturing any functionality that determines any parameter of an order automatically. That begs the question, what order flow qualifies as not algorithmic? Hand on heart, how many traders can claim to exclusively use native exchange order types and not rely on at least one of the friendly little helpers in the form of a stop order, an iceberg, delayed start or order expiry? Probably very few, possibly none, right?

Today, The Clearing House (TCH) announced it has entered into a letter of intent with VocaLink, the UK-based international payment systems provider, to help build and deliver core elements of TCH’s new real-time payment system for the United States.

“Building a real-time payment system is centered around meeting customer needs,” said Jim Aramanda, CEO of The Clearing House. “I am confident that working together with VocaLink we can build the most innovative and widely used real-time payment system in the world.”

SIBOS 2015 clearly showed how banking is at an inflection point. Like every year, there is a general feeling that SIBOS 2015 helped raise the banks’ awareness of the values at stake and the challenges ahead. But this year more than ever, the SWIFT flagship conference also helped banks leap forward into next-generation banking by pushing for new and sustainable design solutions.

 Oracle awarded Temenos with its 2015 Oracle Excellence Award for Exastack ISV Partner of the Year – EMEA. Temenos is a Gold level member of Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN).

 Fiserv, Inc. (NASDAQ: FISV), a leading global provider of financial services technology solutions, announced today that Agiliti from Fiserv continues to gain momentum. With its first client, Think Money Limited, set to go live in early 2016, Agiliti is changing the way banks deliver financial services. The hosted, software-as-a-service (SaaS) retail bank technology solution, modular in its approach, offers a comprehensive software and infrastructure built specifically for the U.K. banking market.

 NetFortris, Inc., a leader in secure cloud-based unified communications (UC) and networking solutions, has been awarded the 2015 Communications Solutions Product of the Year Award for the NetFortris UC-Ready Cloud Com