Azul Systems, the award-winning leader in Java runtime solutions, today announced that Zing®, Azul’s Java Virtual Machine (JVM) designed for systems that require consistent low latency and high scalability, has been deployed by Traiana, the leading provider of pre trade risk and post trade processing solutions.  Traiana has chosen to implement Zing on 

 A comprehensive whitepaper published by Celent and commissioned by The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the premier post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, reveals that the long-term success of the Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect (SHSC) hinges on removing the many barriers to participation, including features of the program that restrict trading strategies, introduce risk and create operational c

FINCAD, the leading provider of enterprise valuation and risk analytics for multi-asset, multi-currency portfolios, today announced that it has added several enhancements to its innovative enterprise valuation and risk platform. The firm’s updated F3 Analytics now allow users to trade European Swaptions despite low and negative interest rates in the Eurozone.

Mambu, the SaaS banking platform provider, today announced new capabilities designed to provide small banks, commercial/personal finance companies and microfinance institutions the ability address the complex requirements of lending to small to mid-size enterprises (SMEs).

The line of ‘front-to-back solutions’ from ARQA Technologies acquired another software product – the middle office of asset management companies capQORT.

The capQORT software consolidates the management company’s position as well as that of its clients based on results of trading in financial instruments and keeps it online in the form of portfolios and groups of portfolios.

Europe’s fastest-growing securities broker DEGIRO is proud to be launching its revolutionary, low-cost online trading platform in London, Europe’s main financial hub.  

NICE Actimize, a NICE Systems (NASDAQ:NICE) business and the largest and broadest provider of financial crime, risk and compliance software for the financial services industry, will support and enhance Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.’s (BBH) compliance operations with expanded licensing of its Trade Surveillance portfolio, including the Actimize Trading Compliance Solution – Control Room and Actimize Enterprise Risk Case Manager solutions.  

SunGard has announced that its new industry utility for post-trade futures and cleared over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives operations has gone live with Barclays as the utility’s anchor customer. Barclays, an industry leader in the global cleared derivatives industry, has completed the migration of specific futures and OTC derivatives clearing operations and technology processes to the utility, as well as the transfer of a number of Barclays employees to SunGard.

Apple Pay will come to the UK in July, Apple confirmed at its Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco on Monday. It will be available at more than 250,000 locations - more than the number of merchants it had in the US for last year’s launch. Participating retailers include Marks & Spencer, Costa and Waitrose – as well as Transport for London, meaning that Tube and bus travel can be paid for with Apple’s contactless payment system.