Nasdaq and Pico, a provider of multi-asset electronic trading technologies, today announced that Pico will provide market data infrastructure to its clients to access Nasdaq Futures, Inc. (NFX), the exchange group's U.S.-based designated contract market (DCM). Through NFX, Nasdaq will expand its commodities business with futures and options on key energy benchmarks including oil, natural gas and U.S. power, which will launch in mid-2015.

Imagine the setting: 140 years ago, down a dark Dickensian street in the City of London sits a lonely bank clerk at his desk, updating his ledgers by candlelight. This would by no means be the ideal setting for completing such an onerous task: with the lack of proper lighting, mistakes would have been inevitable, and money lost.

Last year VTB Capital knocked Sberbank CIB out of the top spot on the All-Russia Research Team, Institutional Investor's exclusive annual ranking of the nation's best sell-side analysts. This year Sberbank returns the favor.

Calastone, the global funds transaction network, today announced that Schroders, the global asset management company, is now a participant of the Calastone Net Payments Hub, the STP settlement service offering matched netting and the Barclays payments service.

Utrecht, the Netherlands, 2 June 2015 – Starting the 1st of June, customers of businesses and government agencies can pay for products and services using secure digital direct debit mandates (e-Mandates). ING is the first bank in the Netherlands to provide the e-Mandate service for its corporate customers. The e-Mandate service enables organisations to offer payment by direct debit through their websites. Equens, one of Europe’s largest payment providers, will handle the technical processing of these e-Mandates.

GoldenSource Corporation, the leading independent provider of enterprise data management (EDM) and Master Data Management (MDM)solutions for the securities and investment industry, announced today the appointment of Victor Leong to the position of Director of Sales for Asia Pacific.

Based in Singapore, Leong will report to London-based Managing Director of Global Sales and Client Operations, Neill Vanlint. Leong will play a key role in supporting and expanding the GoldenSource customer portfolio across Asia.

Metamako continues to lead the market in ultra-low latency devices for the trading community, exchanges and telco providers with the launch of MetaApp. The new technology is the latest in a series of innovations from the company and is the first to effectively combine three core components: a layer-1+ switch, an FPGA and an x86 server.