Vermilion Software, the leading supplier of client reporting and communications software, today announces its victory at the Funds Europe Awards 2015. The honour, for ‘European Operations & Technology Provider of the Year – Back and Middle Office’, was received at the Tower of London on 26 November.

Vermilion was shortlisted alongside industry heavyweights Milestone Group and SS&C GlobeOp. It was therefore the only best-of-breed client reporting vendor to reach the last three.

ITG, a leading independent execution broker and financial technology provider, announced that ITG RFQ-hub, ITG’s multi-asset system for OTC (over-the-counter) assets, is expanding in Asia Pacific in line with global growth across the platform. 

Leading financial software company corfinancial has bolstered its leadership with two key appointments to its salerio team.

To lead its ongoing strategic expansion, corfinancial has appointed David Veal as Senior Executive: Strategy and Product Management.

David will assume responsibility for positioning corfinancial as a market leader in the fast moving post execution services market in Europe and North America.

Demand for cybersecurity executives is dramatically increasing as cyberattacks have grown and boards and company leadership sharpen their focus on data security, according to the quarterly Executive Monitor released today byBoyden Global Executive Search.  

FIME and Amadis today announce a technical partnership focused on maintaining and strengthening FIME’s position at the forefront of the EMV payment terminal testing solutions and services market.

Fintech start-up Swave has secured an unrivalled opportunity to benefit from the expertise of Britain’s biggest banking group after recently winning the Consumer Financial Literacy category of an open innovation challenge run by the UK’s innovation agency, Innovate UK.

InvestCloud has been awarded ‘Best data management product’ at this year’s HFM European Technology Awards.

The HFM European Hedge Fund Technology Awards recognize and reward those firms that have delivered innovative and exceptional technological products and services to the hedge fund industry over the past 12 months.

The Black Friday and Cyber Monday weekend marks one of the busiest shopping periods in the UK. The tradition, which originated in the US, where it follows Thanksgiving Thursday, arrived in the UK a few years ago. This year, it falls on the 27^th November. While many shoppers are getting excited about bargain deals, not all UK retailers are happy about it. Smaller businesses can struggle to fulfil orders and strip their stockrooms of goods that they could have sold at full price in December.