Torstone Technology has added an international processing tool for US clients to its flagship post-trade securities and derivatives processing system, Inferno. The new module is designed to help banks and brokers meet the growing appetite for offshore products among US domestic clients seeking to diversify their investment mix.

Bravura Solutions Limited (Bravura), is pleased to announce that it has achieved the GoodAccreditation Standard for the third year running. The accolade is given by Goodacre UK, a leading specialist consultancy for the financial services industry. To attain the standard, Bravura had to meet the strict accreditation criteria, which validates the quality of its platform and transfer agency propositions.

Fiserv, Inc. (NASDAQ: FISV), a leading global provider of financial services technology solutions, announced today that CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield (CareFirst) is now enabling members to pay their healthcare premiums in person via its CheckFreePay® solution. CareFirst offers a comprehensive portfolio of health insurance products and administrative services to 3.4 million individuals and groups in Maryland, the District of Columbia and Northern Virginia.

CR2 are pleased to announce that Ayeyarwady Bank (AYA Bank) has selected BankWorld, CR2’s self-service integrated platform to manage their entire distribution network of ATMs, online banking and POS channels.

OneMarketData, LLC, a leader in tick data management and analytics, today announced the launch of OneTickCLOUD™, the industry’s most advanced data and analytics platform for time series analysis, powered by OneTick with global multi-asset class tick data from Morningstar.

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.