In April, Sapient Global Markets, along with other market participants, descended on Montreal for ISDA’s 30th Annual General Meeting.  As noted in our pre-event blog, much of the conference focused on the impact of regulation, intended and unintended, and how firms are reacting to the changes. In particular, consideration was given to how markets are fragmenting, and what the industry can do to realize greater harmonization and standardization in response.

 DMS Offshore Investment Services Ltd., (DMS) the world's largest fund governance firm, is expanding its New York City Office with the appointment of John D'Agostino as Managing Director.

 Karnataka Bank Limited, a major, privately owned bank based in southwestern India, will expand 24x7 transaction banking access to its customers with its new “e-lobby” services, supported through a multi-year ATM outsourcing agreement with FIS™ (NYSE: FIS), a global leader in banking and payments technology as well as consulting and outsourcing solutions.

Agilysys, Inc. (Nasdaq:AGYS), a leading global provider of next-generation hospitality software solutions and services, today announced general availability of the latest version of its 

 MasterCard joins the elusive commodities of time and money and helps U.S. businesses save both with the latest version of its popular, professional site, MasterCard Business Network™ 2.0.

The new site is built on feedback from hundreds of small- and mid-sized businesses who universally expressed the needs to minimize costs, get more time in their days and engage with new and existing customers. MasterCard Business Network 2.0 was created with these challenges and opportunities in mind.

Paysafecard, the Vienna-based global market leader in prepaid online payment methods, and member of Skrill Group, a worldwide provider of online payment technologies, announces that Dr. Hartwig Gerhartinger (36), Senior Legal Counsel at paysafecard, has been selected to join the governing body of the Prepaid International Forum (PIF). As a not-for-profit trade association, PIF represents the global prepaid industry and the interests of all its member organisations.

HID Global®, a worldwide leader in secure identity solutions, has introduced the ActivID® Tap Authentication™ platform for convenient and secure multi-factor authentication to cloud applications and web services.  HID Global’s new ActivID Tap Authentication for Microsoft enables users to simply tap their smart card to laptops, tablets, phones and other NFC-enabled devices for easy and convenient access to Office365 a

Advent Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADVS), a leading provider of software and services for the global investment management industry, today announced that Advent was awarded “Best Client Communications & Reporting” and “Best Portfolio Management” for wealth management technology at the 2015 WealthBriefing Swiss awards in a ceremony in Geneva, Switzerland. The program recognizes excellence among technology solution providers specializing in tools for Swiss-based wealth managers to deliver best-in-class service for their clients.

 Fidessa group plc (LSE: FDSA) has today announced that its Affirmation Management Service (AMS) has been recognised as the best new post-trade solution for buy-side firms in the Financial Technologies Forum and FTF News Technology Innovation Awards 2015. The award was presented in recognition of the innovation that AMS has brought to post-trade operations and the crucial operational efficiency improvements it delivers. Launched in mid-2014, Fidessa's AMS challenges the status quo in confirmation and affirmation processing to deliver real efficiencies and business value.

Misys, the leading financial software company, has signed an agreement with Efficiency Management Consulting to become a member of the InFusion Partner Programme. Efficiency is a fast-growing consulting practice, specialising in business management and organisational design, supporting financial institutions in the design and implementation of transformation strategies.