Diasoft, a leading provider of cutting-edge financial software solutions, has achieved Microsoft Gold Certified Partner status.

Microsoft is the world’s leader in information technologies, developing a wide range of devices, software and IT- services. This is one of the largest corporations in the world, operating in more than 170 countries. Microsoft`s workforce estimates more than 90 thousand people. According to the annual research of Millward Brown agency, by results of 2012 Microsoft is included in TOP 5 of the most expensive brands in the world (78 billion dollars).

Diasoft, a global provider of cutting-edge financial software solutions, has achieved Fujitsu SELECT Partner status.

Fujitsu is a leading provider of infrastructure solutions across Europe, Middle East, Africa and India regions, as well as in Russia and CIS countries. The company offers a wide range of IT-products, solutions and services – starting from the user licenses up to datacenters, IT-infrastructure management services and IaaS (infrastructure as a service).

OptionsCity Software , a global provider of electronic trading solutions for professional futures and options traders, announced that London-based Spinaris Capital will expand its FX and energy options trading utilizing OptionsCity’s Metro and Freeway platforms.

Situated within OptionsCity’s hosting infrastructure, Spinaris Capital will trade on CME and Eurex using a combination of Metro, the company’s flagship trading and risk management platform, and Freeway, its multi-asset automated trading solution.

MasterCard (NYSE: MA) today announced that it has entered into an agreement with Opus Software Solutions Pvt. Ltd.,  (“Opus”) to acquire its subsidiary, ElectraCard Services Private Limited, (“ECS”), a leading global provider of software solutions and processing services for electronic payment and card systems. MasterCard previously had a minority investment in ECS. This transaction is anticipated to close in the second quarter of 2014.

Banking analytics, risk and compliance pioneer, iCreate, today announced a strategic partnership with tax information reporting leader, Convey Compliance Systems, Inc., to help global banks accelerate their FATCA compliance initiatives.

OptionsCity Software, a global provider of electronic trading solutions for professional futures and options traders, today announced that users of its flagship Metro trading platform will now have direct access to the OptionsCity Algo Store. The Algo Store was created to provide customers with a marketplace to buy and sell algorithms for trading futures and options. OptionsCity offers this enhancement through Metro Link, a tool that allows traders to run algorithms purchased in the Algo Store within Metro.