CR2 is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. Tammo van Leeuwen as Market Strategy Director. In this position and as a member of the Executive Committee, Tammo will be overseeing CR2’s Marketing, Product Management & Thought Leadership activities. Tammo will primarily contribute to steering CR2 in its next frontier of growth and innovation with a reinforced product strategy.

For the IT security team at Exostar, staying ahead of security issues across international data centers presented some unique intricacies beyond those faced by other SaaS providers. Exostar’s cloud-based solutions help companies in aerospace and defense, life sciences and healthcare mitigate risk and solve identity and access challenges, allowing them to collaborate securely, efficiently and compliantly with their partners and supply chains.

 myPINpad, the world’s first consumer authentication company set to deliver multi-channel and multi-factor authentication via the Cardholder PIN, is pleased to announce the appointment of Phillip Dunkelberger to its Board, effective immediately.

Worldpay, the UK’s leading payments processor, today announces the launch of My Business Dashboard, an online tool to help small business owners become more efficient and make smarter decisions. 

Securus Technologies announced today that it has signed a definitive Stock Purchase Agreement to acquire JPay Inc. JPay is the market leading technology company that introduced electronic payments, email and a host of entertainment and educational related apps to the corrections space, and currently operates in over 33 state prison systems.

 Eze Castle Integration, a leading provider of strategic IT solutions and private cloud services to the investment industry, today announced it has expanded its Information Security Consulting Service to Hong Kong and Singapore. Eze Castle Integration's security consultants provide development and audit services for Written Information Security Policies (WISP), enabling clients to address the administrative and technical safeguards necessary to withstand a cybersecurity incident.

Celoxica, the leading provider of accelerated market data, order entry and pre-trade risk solutions for the electronic trading community, today announced the launch of the Celoxica Ticker Plant (CTP) for OPRA.
 
OPRA, the Options Price Reporting Authority, which provides market data for 12 US options exchanges, is set for a substantial growth in message volumes later in 2015 when new options exchanges ISE Mercury and BATS EDGX Options go live. OPRA’s message capacity at that time is projected to be in excess of 50 million messages per second.
 

Thomson Reuters today announced the addition of foreign exchange trading capabilities for corporate treasurers on its flagship financial markets desktop Thomson Reuters Eikon. The Company has integrated FXall QuickTrade, its state-of-the-art request for stream service, to provide corporate treasury customers trading smaller FX volumes with a complete solution that combines news, data and market analysis with direct access to 140 FXall liquidity providers.

 Horizon Software announced today that Paris-based algorithmic prop house Alize Trading has gone live with Horizon Platform to develop its algorithmic trading business.

Working to stop financial crime before it happens is nothing new to the financial services industry. Adapting crime prevention strategies to the changing nature of fraud is a challenge that many financial institutions (FIs) are increasingly making an effort to address. Fraudsters use various novel schemes to take advantage of new payment channels and FIs must understand these emerging security threats and adapt their financial crime risk management strategies accordingly - in order to protect their customers’ financial assets.