Linedata partnered with Sycamore Investment Services in Shanghai, to provide a complete front to middle-office service to the hedge fund community in China.

The partnership will provide Sycamore’s middle office outsourcing services alongside Linedata’s flagship hedge fund management offering, Linedata Global Hedge. This will create a full service for hedge fund clients in China, in particular allowing those firms without complete fund operations to access the full capabilities of the Linedata product with the addition of an outsourcing capacity.

CollateralPro and FinancePro offered by Broadridge create a powerful infrastructure designed to solve the challenges of regulatory compliance, business controls and operational efficiency in collateral management and securities financing. Broadridge’s solutions are offered on an ASP, managed service, or licensed basis. Both solutions can be integrated with other Broadridge securities processing solutions like impactSM, BPS® and Gloss.   

DeNovo is the next generation platform for strategy consulting that helps to understand the transformative ecosystem and technological potential of blockchain. The platform provides real-time content and insights to build proper strategy, business model and implementation. The solution delivers customized consulting and analysis based on such preferences as emerging technologies, business models, processes, and trends.             

Broadridge announced that Questrade, an online retail brokerage based in Canada, has adopted Broadridge's end-to-end foreign exchange and liquidity solution, Broadridge FX and Liquidity (FXL).

Demand for contract and permanent hires is increasing rapidly among UK fintech companies, according to new research from recruitment finance provider, Sonovate.

Job advertisements for contract roles increased by 64 percent quarter-on-quarter (QoQ) and individual roles have become highly sought after. Roles are being advertised at an average day rate of £430.

Following the inclusion of mobile payments performance and interoperability requirements in the latest EMVCo Specifications, FIME’s international network of laboratories is now accredited to confirm compliance of mobile devices.

The specifications address three main areas for mobile devices designed to perform mobile contactless transactions:

-       Level 1 digital and analog testing to verify the RF signal and protocol exchanges between the mobile handset and the payment terminal.

Interesting to read that  Apple is reportedly deciding when, not if, to cancel music downloads from iTunes.  The idea, of course, is to move everyone over to its Apple Music streaming service.  This got me thinking about the whole “access to” versus “ownership of” debate and how it applies to our industry.