The Nordic IT services and software company Tieto is contributing to the market introduction of Facebook’s open source initiative, Open/R. The goal of Open/R is to become the foundation for an ecosystem of open source solutions to enable next generation network services and architectures that would pave the roads towards digitalization. 

As businesses are becoming more and more digital and consumers’ usage of rich digital content is accelerating, the complexity of the underlying communication network is increasing as the flow of information grows.

Research from Proofpoint, Inc.

Gold trading among existing private investors rebounded as bullion prices steadied in November, but new interest from first-time buyers sank to its lowest since the metal's bear-market price lows of 2015.

That pulled the Gold Investor Index lower to 53.9 from October's reading of 54.6 according to new data today from BullionVault, the world's largest online marketplace for physical precious metals.

Openlink, the global leader in trading, treasury and risk management solutions for the energy, commodities, corporate and financial services industries, has announced a deal with the international energy company, Uniper based in Germany, to move its extensive energy trading and risk management (ETRM) systems into the Cloud. This marks the first fully public Cloud ETRM implementation for a company of Uniper’s size and prestige. 

Synechron, Inc, the global financial services consulting and technology services provider, has today announced that Charles Bokman has joined the company as the new Head of the Asia Pacific (APAC) region. Bokman brings almost 20 years of project management, systems integration and outsourcing advisory experience in the financial services sector. He is based in Singapore and will report to Synechron’s CEO, Faisal Husain.

LexisNexis® Risk Solutions, the global information solution provider, has retained the Best Financial Crime Intelligence and Research Data award for a fourth consecutive year at the Compliance Register Platinum Awards 2017. The firm also secured the Best Regtech Solution in Financial Crime & Sanctions Compliance, to make it a double win.

Red Herring announced last week that it has named Path Solutions, the international specialist provider of Sharia-based financial software and services, to its Top 100 Global Winners list. This honor follows Path Solutions’ selection as a Red Herring’s Top 100 Asia Award Winner in 2017.

With a new head of trading and markets at the SEC, there is optimism that some of the complex market structure issues – such as make-taker incentives and sky-high market data costs — will be looked at in 2018.  As these issues wait to be settled, buy-side traders are also grappling with the EU’s MiFID II  rules on unbundling research payments from executions.

Here are some key takeaways on what matters to buy-side and sell-side traders, as discussed at Traders’ Magazine’sSecond Inaugural Market Structure Equity Town Hall.

Maker Taker: Dead or Alive?

Yolt, the money app owned by ING, has reached 100,000 registered app users in less than six months of Open Beta in the UK. 

Wolters Kluwer’s Finance, Risk & Reporting business is proud to be a sponsor of this week’s RiskMinds International conference taking place in Amsterdam. This five day conference will be attended by more than 650 risk professionals from the financial industry.