Calastone, the global fund transaction network, has expanded into New Zealand, bringing critical infrastructure to support smoother transaction flow across Australasia.

Calastone Managing Director Australia, Sarah Hayward, said the firm’s extended cross border coverage enables transactions between Australian and New Zealand platforms, fund managers and respective counterparts.  

“Our expansion has been primarily driven by our Australian clients wanting access to cross-border opportunities and New Zealand clients embracing automation,” she said.

On May 16, 2016 FinTech back-end platform SDK.finance is pleased to announce an official launch of our client Moresise. Moresise is a multi-currency financial mobile application with personal assistant and loyalty program. Paying bills and services is a one-click action with the currency you choose. In the nearest future there will be possibility to add a card and order a Moresise multi currency payment card.

OptionsCity Software, a global provider of futures and options trading and analytics solutions, announced today that G. H. Financials, a global clearing and market access provider, has selected OptionsCity Metro as the primary risk management tool for its options clearing operation. G. H. Financials’ risk management team will utilize Metro’s robust analytics to evaluate and monitor its risk on a continuous real-time basis.

 Broadridge Financial Solutions announced that China Post & Capital Global Asset Management Limited ("China Post Global"), the international asset management arm of China Post & Capital Fund Management Co., Ltd. – jointly owned by China Post Group, Capital Securities and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation -- went live on Broadridge's integrated trading and portfolio management platform.

Valassis and Acxiom will deliver the post-campaign analytics marketers now demand to activate consumers and drive improved results.

Consumers interact with multiple media channels along their path to purchase, challenging marketers to identify those influential touch points in order to develop successful plans. Today marketers are faced with building a plan using fragmented data from a variety of sources without the linkage that provides an integrated view of a consumer’s purchase behavior.

ISITC Europe, the industry group dedicated to improving the operational efficiency of the capital markets industry, has held its first General Meeting of 2016. The meeting – the trade body’s first since its relaunch and the appointment of new CEO Nigel Solkhon – was a success, with over a hundred attendees from across the financial sector convening to discuss the theme of “How is the securities market responding to digital and regulatory challenges in a low growth, low margin environment?”