Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (NYSE:BR) has launched a new managed service offering to help capital markets firms streamline and automate the costly and increasingly complex area of trade expense management.

I was relaxing on my way home on the 7.02 from Waterloo last night when I came across Nick Goodway’s excellent article in the London Evening Standard on the impact of unbundling and research procurement. As everyone knows, ESMA wants to make sure that transparency rules the day when it comes to how investment managers use client money, especially when it comes to paying for research via trading commissions.

BPC Banking Technologies, the leading provider of Open System payment solutions for financial industry, announces the launch of Processing Centre and Card Personalization Center for PayLink, Albania.

PayLink is a new processing company which facilitates switching and processing of bank transactions for both local and regional banks in addition to banks in neighboring countries. PayLink was founded as a single processor to act as a new payment ecosystem for local payments. It already serves Union Bank, Albania.

The current Risk Based Supervision (RBS) wave in India appears to be rapidly gaining momentum. With the scrapping of RBI’s conventional practice of CAMELS (short for Capital adequacy, Asset quality, Management, Earnings, Liquidity, and Systems and control) inspection, 30 large private, foreign and public sector banks were instructed to be RBS-ready.

 Apprenda, the leading provider of enterprise Platform as a Service (PaaS), has formalised the training of its Enterprise PaaS into a new three-day Apprenda Certified Expert (ACE) programme. This hands-on, instructor-led training is designed to give a designated team the skills necessary to deliver, implement, and utilise the Apprenda platform in the enterprise.

Two-day Training Seminar

May 12-13, 2015, New York City

On June 12 ARQA Technologies held its first workshop for clients and partners in London. The participants of the event represented over 10 international investment groups and specialized consulting agencies as well as the London Stock Exchange and MTF Turquoise.

With the theme 'Make Sense of Risk', the 2015 ABA Risk Management Forum is scheduled to be held from April 15 to 17 at the Hyatt Regency, St. Louis, Missouri. This year's forum will cover the range of risk areas facing today's banks, including enterprise, operational, regulatory and security to understand key insights risk managers need to identify, monitor, measure and control risk across the banking enterprise.

Ullink, a global provider of market leading electronic trading and connectivity solutions to the financial community and Daewoo Securities Hong Kong, a leading full-service investment firm, today announced that Daewoo has chosen Ullink’s electronic trading platform to provide a low latency solution for its High Frequency Trading (HFT) clients.