Banks continue to juggle growing demands to aggregate and analyse risks, stress test overall balance sheets, and assess the capital adequacy and variety of performance and regulatory measures. Since performance depends on many complex models, banks must develop and demonstrate a robust risk model governance strategy to regulators. Failure to actively manage business and regulatory models can expose banks to uncertainty and possibly lead to higher capital requirements.

 Azul Systems, the award-winning leader in Java runtime solutions, today announced thatZing®, Azul’s Java Virtual Machine (JVM) designed for systems that require consistent low latency and high throughput, will be integrated intoTradition’s high performance trading platforms.

Today at the Appian World 2015 conference (#Appian15), Appian is unveiling the latest version of Appian 7, the industry's leading Business Process Management(BPM)-based application platform.

 KPMG LLP, the U.S.

 Liquid Finance Partners Ltd, a leader in the Merchant Cash Advance sector of the fast growing Alternative Funding market, reported today its performance over the last eighteen months where it funded over 650 micro business projects. Since the start of 2015 it has been funding over ten new UK micro businesses every week. With an average transaction size of £20,000 per customer, Liquid Finance is funding over £200,000 a week.

Trunomi, a provider of consent-based Know Your Customer (KYC) data-sharing technology, announces that it has expanded its team with new chief architect, Kartik Venkatesh and Advisory Board member, Fred Thiel.

Fiserv, Inc. (NASDAQ: FISV), a leading global provider of financial services technology solutions, announced today that Columbia Bank, based in Fair Lawn, New Jersey, has selected the DNA(TM) account processing platform and more than 20 additional Fiserv solutions to accelerate its growth. The $4.7 billion asset bank will use the Fiserv platform to increase efficiency and expand relationships with its retail and commercial customers.

Interactive Data, a leading provider of fixed-income evaluated pricing, announced that its continuous evaluated pricing is now available on the MarketAxess BondTicker™ data platform, and will soon also be available on MarketAxess’ award-winning electronic credit trading platform, in support of all-to-all Open Trading™.

ITG (NYSE:ITG), a leading execution broker and research provider, today announced the launch of the ITG Dark List Algorithm, a next-generation algorithm which brings ITG's unique dark trading capacity to portfolio traders. Using a proprietary optimization technique, the algorithm is able to efficiently trade a list in POSIT Marketplace^® and POSIT Alert^® without creating cash imbalances or over-trading liquid names.

MasterCard today announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Applied Predictive Technologies (APT) for $600 million, subject to customary purchase price adjustments.

Applied Predictive Technologies is a leading cloud-based analytics provider. APT’s Test & Learn® platform helps companies tailor investments and maximize bottom-line impact by harnessing analytics to design, measure and calibrate marketing, merchandising, operations and capital initiatives.