Volante Technologies, a global leader in the provision of financial message and data integration, validation and processing software, today announced the launch of VolPay Foundation.

Misys, the leading financial software company, has signed an agreement with Global Market Solutions (GMS) to become a member of the InFusion Partner Programme.

PROFILE Software, an award-winning financial solutions provider announced today that FMS.next goes live at the local branch of an international bank headquartered in the UK. The bank selected the technologically advanced FMS.next Banking platform to manage their data warehouse requirements and achieve regulatory compliance, reporting customer activity to state authorities.

 SugarCRM Inc., the company that enables businesses to create extraordinary customer relationships with the most innovative, flexible and affordable CRM solution in the market, today announced Sugar® 7.6.

Рaysafecard, a global leader in prepaid payments and a member of the international Skrill Group, continues its international expansion by launching paysafecard in New Zealand. Since 2013, the product has been available in Australia. With a higher than average internet and smartphone usage, New Zealand has the perfect prerequisites for prepaid solutions, and is therefore an ideal addition to the paysafecard portfolio. 

 Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the global interconnection and data centre company, today officially opened its sixth London data centre, LD6, in Slough.

With $79M of capital expenditure invested, the LD6 International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) facility will provide new paths in and out of Europe’s largest financial centre and new collaboration, innovation and business acceleration opportunities for companies establishing or expanding their technology footprint in London.

Broadridge today announced a new trade expense managed service offering for capital markets firms looking to streamline and automate their trade expense management process. For broker-dealers, management of trade-related fees is the third largest operating cost after technology and people, and Broadridge’s trade expense managed service offering will help firms address key pain points in managing trade expenses, including revenue leakage, over-billing and other costly errors. For reference, the full press release follows below.

BI-SAM, the best-in-class provider of performance measurement, attribution, and client reporting solutions to the global asset management industry, today announced the launch of BI-SAM GO™. This flexible new solution provides asset managers with daily and transactional performance and attribution analytics, plus high-quality cleansed and validated data — all via a flexible, secure web-based platform.

Trading volumes in exchange-traded derivatives (ETDs) continue to rise (up 30% from pre-crash volumes). During a recent pilot study at a large securities clearing house Gresham CTC was tasked with processing 20 million trades in 14 minutes as a minimum requirement for processing ETD transactions.  I’m pleased to say that we passed with flying colours, but it does highlight the increasing volumes.

Tradition, one of the world’s largest interdealer brokers in over-the-counter commodity and financial products, has appointed Robert Pickel as Non-Executive Director to the Board of TraditionSEF, the Swap Execution Facility (SEF) operated by Tradition in the United States.