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Vocalcom, a leading contact centre and cloud solutions provider, has announced that it will be offering free three-month subscriptions for its Cloud Contact Centre solution during their participation at this year’s edition of GITEX Technology Week, the largest information and communications technology (ICT) event in the Middle East, Africa and South Asia, which will be held from October 18 to 22, 2015 at the Dubai World Trade Centre (DWTC).

 Eze Castle Integration, a leading provider of strategic IT solutions and private cloud services to hedge funds and the investment industry, today announced it has expanded its cloud-based voice solution, Eze Voice, to the United Kingdom. Eze Castle Integration's optimised communications system enables mobility and increases efficiencies for the hedge fund and alternative investment verticals.

Orc, a global market leader in electronic trading technology, today announced that Cidron Delfi S.à r.l*, the owner of Orc Group Holding AB and CameronTec Intressenter Holding AB, the global standard in financial messaging infrastructure and tools for the capital markets industry, intends to combine both companies under a new entity.

Orc (sto:ORC), the global market leader in electronic trading technology for listed derivatives, today announced a partnership with OneMarketData, LLC, to make OneMarketData’s flagship OneTick product an integral component of Orc’s Trading Bricks and Execution Bricks platforms.

 On October 15, 2015 Acadia First Nation (ACADIA) announced a strategic partnership with Mi'kmaq Dawn-Works Inc. (MDW) and Trinity Bay Technologies (TBT) to launch a Global Financial Transaction Processing Platform (GTP) to be located in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. This GTP will be an industry leader and will be capable of managing and completing millions of complex financial messages on a daily basis.

IBM and Infosys INFY, +1.19% a global leader in consulting, technology, outsourcing and next-generation services, today announced a collaboration in which Infosys will tap Bluemix, IBM's Cloud platform to rapidly prototype, develop and deploy the next generation of Cloud apps for its global client base.

BizEquity, the world’s leading online provider of business valuation knowledge and big data, today announces that it has signed a strategic partnership with eMoney Advisor LLC (eMoney), the leading provider of advanced wealth-planning solutions for financial advisors.

 Lanware, providers of outsourced technology solutions for investment firms and financial institutions, is expanding into Level 3 Communications’ data centre in Brussels to support business growth and enable the facilitation of a wider suite of services to customers. With a dedicated suite at Level 3’s Brussels data centre, Lanware will deliver a 50 percent increase in capacity to its clients.