Calastone, the global funds transaction network, today announced that Schroders, the global asset management company, is now a participant of the Calastone Net Payments Hub, the STP settlement service offering matched netting and the Barclays payments service.

Utrecht, the Netherlands, 2 June 2015 – Starting the 1st of June, customers of businesses and government agencies can pay for products and services using secure digital direct debit mandates (e-Mandates). ING is the first bank in the Netherlands to provide the e-Mandate service for its corporate customers. The e-Mandate service enables organisations to offer payment by direct debit through their websites. Equens, one of Europe’s largest payment providers, will handle the technical processing of these e-Mandates.

GoldenSource Corporation, the leading independent provider of enterprise data management (EDM) and Master Data Management (MDM)solutions for the securities and investment industry, announced today the appointment of Victor Leong to the position of Director of Sales for Asia Pacific.

Based in Singapore, Leong will report to London-based Managing Director of Global Sales and Client Operations, Neill Vanlint. Leong will play a key role in supporting and expanding the GoldenSource customer portfolio across Asia.

Metamako continues to lead the market in ultra-low latency devices for the trading community, exchanges and telco providers with the launch of MetaApp. The new technology is the latest in a series of innovations from the company and is the first to effectively combine three core components: a layer-1+ switch, an FPGA and an x86 server.

Payments innovator allpay has cemented its position as one of the UK’s leading prepaid specialists after scooping awards for programme management and card design at this year’s Prepaid365 industry awards.

 Information Mosaic (IM), leaders in global post-trade securities processing, will receive the 2015 award for Best Operational Risk Management Solution at the annual SecOps USA conference in New York City on the 1st and 2nd of June.

inedata (NYSE Euronext: LIN), the global solutions provider dedicated to the investment management and credit industries, today announced that its client Vertex One Asset Management (Vertex One), a client since 2012 utilizing Linedata Global Hedge for real-time P&L, valuation, trading, reporting and compliance, has experienced significant growth due in large part to the technology of Linedata Global Hedge and partnership with Linedata. The Linedata Global Hedge Platform and team have provided a competitive edge allowing for improved client exper

OTAS Technologies, providers of market data analytics, today announced the launch of OTAS Lingo, its new natural language reporting technology. OTAS Lingo produces reports containing up-to-date analysis of all the standout and unusual activity in the stocks users care about. Lingo will enhance daily market reports, inform risk management decisions and keep users up-to-date with the latest developments in markets and portfolios, via the desktop or on the move.

 Vermilion Software (‘Vermilion’), the leading global supplier of client reporting and communications software, announces that it has signed terms with leading Danish private bank, Jyske Bank A/S (‘Jyske Bank’).

Markit (Nasdaq: MRKT), a leading global diversified provider of financial information services, today announced that it has agreed to acquire Information Mosaic, a leading software provider for corporate actions and post trade securities processing.  Information Mosaic’s enterprise software will allow Markit to extend its corporate actions service to support the full corporate actions trade lifecycle and enhance Markit’s asset servicing solutions.