Securities and corporate actions reference data specialist Exchange Data International (EDI) today announced it has added equity analytics data, Worldwide Equity Analytics, to its comprehensive securities data offering.

This new service enables clients to identify the sources of risk and returns in their portfolios and project their volatility. It comprises a customisable set of more than 60 equity derived data fields such as Average Daily Volume, Simple Moving Averages, Alpha, Beta, and R-squared.

As retailers and banks prepare for the October 1 EMV liability shift—which moves fraud liability from issuing banks to merchants —many consumers have not yet received their new chip-enabled cards, or are simply in the dark about what EMV means, according to a new survey from ACI Worldwide (NASDAQ: ACIW).

Digital Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE: DLR), a leading global provider of data centre and colocation solutions, and GMEX Technologies Limited (GMEX Tech),a provider of multi-asset exchange and post-trade technology, announced today that they will establish multiple global hubs for new product exchanges and trading venues in Digital Realty’s facilities.  The first hub will be located in London at Digital Realty’s Chessington data centre.

 Tissue World, the leading platform dedicated to global tissue paper industry is pleased to announce the return of the event in Istanbul on 27 - 29 September

Today, Leetchi Group is proud to announce its acquisition by Crédit Mutuel Arkéa. The bank has acquired 86 percent of the French fintech organisation and founding company of MANGOPAY. As part of the deal, Crédit Mutuel Arkéa will also invest €10 million into the Leetchi Group to boost growth. The remaining 14 percent of the business will be retained by Céline Lazorthes, founder and CEO of Leetchi Group, and its existing management and will remain autonomous and lead business operations.

Fidessa group plc (LSE: FDSA) today announced the launch of its  Partnership Program which enables selected third parties to integrate their services directly into Fidessa's global trading workflow platform.

Market participants have always recognised the role that technology can play in delivering value and demonstrating relevance to their customers. The challenge with this today, however, is that many new innovations need to be plugged directly into the traders' workflow in order to be truly effective, compliant and resilient.

 Olivetree Financial, a leading independent agency broker, has appointed Fred Ward to its event driven team, in order to further hone the firm’s consultancy skills for the buy-side community. Fred joins from Magnetar Capital, where he headed up its European equities event portfolio, and his responsibilities at Olivetree will be to advise both long-fund and hedge-fund clients on how to navigate tough-to-model special situations. He is based in London and will work across Olivetree’s clients globally.

SunGard, in collaboration with Microsoft Corp., has launched a series of five financial planning applications, available through Windows Store, to help individuals improve their ability to reach their financial and retirement savings goals. The tools run quick assessments of an investor’s position to achieve their retirement objectives, show strategies to improve retirement funding, and illustrate fundamental financial planning preparedness.

Looking back at MiFID I, the Systematic Internaliser (SI) didn’t really take off, resulting in a meagre 1-2% market share in the FTSE 100 today. Many EU countries had different models to execute or internalise order flow, leaving the SI model on the shelf like a dented can of beans.

Axxsys Consulting, a successful and growing financial services consultancy firm, are announcing the acquisition of WS Technology, in order to strengthen their offering on Front Office Technology, Data Management, Performance and Regulatory Advisory Services.

Axxsys' acquisition of financial technology consultancy WS Technology, which had a turnover of GBP 3,000.000 in 2014, adds a more diversified offering to Axxsys Consulting's current client base, which includes major banks, pension funds and asset managers in Europe and North America.