The line of ‘front-to-back solutions’ from ARQA Technologies acquired another software product – the middle office of asset management companies capQORT.

The capQORT software consolidates the management company’s position as well as that of its clients based on results of trading in financial instruments and keeps it online in the form of portfolios and groups of portfolios.

Europe’s fastest-growing securities broker DEGIRO is proud to be launching its revolutionary, low-cost online trading platform in London, Europe’s main financial hub.  

NICE Actimize, a NICE Systems (NASDAQ:NICE) business and the largest and broadest provider of financial crime, risk and compliance software for the financial services industry, will support and enhance Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.’s (BBH) compliance operations with expanded licensing of its Trade Surveillance portfolio, including the Actimize Trading Compliance Solution – Control Room and Actimize Enterprise Risk Case Manager solutions.  

SunGard has announced that its new industry utility for post-trade futures and cleared over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives operations has gone live with Barclays as the utility’s anchor customer. Barclays, an industry leader in the global cleared derivatives industry, has completed the migration of specific futures and OTC derivatives clearing operations and technology processes to the utility, as well as the transfer of a number of Barclays employees to SunGard.

Apple Pay will come to the UK in July, Apple confirmed at its Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco on Monday. It will be available at more than 250,000 locations - more than the number of merchants it had in the US for last year’s launch. Participating retailers include Marks & Spencer, Costa and Waitrose – as well as Transport for London, meaning that Tube and bus travel can be paid for with Apple’s contactless payment system.

Optimal Payments (LSE AIM: OPAY), a leading global online payment solutions provider, has partnered with RentMoola, a Vancouver-based service that transforms conventional rent and condo fee payments of cash and cheques to virtual currency for tenants, property managers and owners. Through this exclusive partnership, RentMoola is able to offer fully automated, real-time payment and onboarding services for merchants and customers via Optimal Payments’ NETBANX® online payment gateway.

SmartStream Technologies, the financial Transaction Lifecycle Management specialist, today announced that it has expanded its global operations with the opening of a new office in Nairobi. 

The office is the second in Africa, following the opening of Johannesburg in April 2013. The new operation will be led by Pritesh Kotecha, Senior Vice President for Middle East, Turkey, South Asia and Africa. 

SIX Financial Information, a leading financial information provider, offers content to comply with the EU Alternative Investment Fund Manager Directive (AIFMD).

Under AIFMD, alternative investment fund managers (AIFMs) looking to market their funds within the EU, Switzerland, and EFTA countries  need to obtain and maintain an “EU Passport”. As such, the AIFMs are required to register themselves and their managed funds and submit ongoing reports in order to comply with the directives to their local regulators.

In an environment where cybercrime is an increasing threat for organizations across the globe, EY today announces the launch of its Managed Security Operations Center (SOC) services. The high-end and bespoke service is designed to meet the unique cybersecurity needs of clients by predicting advanced future cyber threats by using advanced analytics. EY is set to invest more than US$20m over the next five years to strengthen the center, increasing its Managed SOC cybersecurity professionals' six-fold to upwards of 1,200 by 2020.