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Alforma Capital Markets, Inc., a New York-based US broker dealer, has taken a step closer to being acquired by BCS Global Markets, the largest securities broker on the Moscow Exchange, by achieving formal regulatory approval from US regulatory body FINRA (Financial Industry Regulatory Authority).

Big Data, the disruptive effect of Fintech on industry incumbents, and a centrepiece debate on the impact of a potential Brexit on financial markets will be among the hot topics at Linedata’s annual European conference, taking place on 22nd June at Kings Place, London. More than 200 financial and IT industry specialists are expected to attend the event.

SWIFT announces today that LCH has signed up to the ‘ISO 20022 Harmonisation Charter’, an industry-driven framework that facilitates the rollout of the ISO 20022 messaging standard and provides the technology platform to promote harmonisation. LCH is one of 17 financial market infrastructure providers to have endorsed the charter, with other participating organisations including payments associations, central banks and exchange groups.

 Kx Systems, the acknowledged leader in time-series analytics for streaming, real-time and historical data, today announced the release of a new version of its kdb+ database and analytics technology, Kx v3.4.

ACI Worldwide, a leading global provider of real-time electronic payment and banking solutions, today announced a collaboration with UK banking pioneer Raphaels Bank, opening up access to the Faster Payments Scheme in the UK for a significant number of financial institutions, including challenger banks and payment service providers (PSPs).

SmartStream, the financial Transaction Lifecycle Management (TLM^®) specialist, today announced that its product Corona, the first solution ever to comply with the SWIFT Certified Application - Electronic Trade Confirmation (ETC) criteria, has again been awarded with the label.

Volante Technologies Inc., a global leader in the provision of software for the integration, processing and orchestration of financial messages and payments, working in collaboration with Ripple, today announced it has created a solution specifically designed to accelerate the process of integrating with Ripple, the global provider of distributed financial technology solutions offering real-time settlement of cross border payments.

 TradingScreen Inc., the leading independent provider of liquidity, trading and investment technology via SaaS, and Quantitative Brokers (“QB”), a leading provider of clearer and dealer-neutral agency algorithms for fixed income and futures markets, have partnered to provide QB’s best execution algorithms through the TradingScreen electronic trading platform. This suite includes the Bolt and Strobe algorithms for outright and listed spread execution, as well the Legger algorithm for customizable intra/inter-exchange, multi-leg order type execution.​