Orbium, the business and IT consulting company focusing exclusively on the financial services industry, announces the opening of four new offices: Frankfurt, Paris, Hong Kong and Manila.

These openings reflect Orbium’s strong organic growth and broad geographical expansion strategy, bringing the total number of employees to over 300 across ten countries and eleven offices including Geneva, London, Luxembourg, Singapore, Sydney, Warsaw and Zurich.

BNY Mellon  Wealth Management has received regulatory approval inHong Kong to launch comprehensive discretionary investment and wealth management services to high net worth individual investors.

BNY Mellon Wealth Management will bring a wide range of solutions-based services including strategic asset allocation, access to world-class investment management services provided by the corporation's robust multi-boutique structure, and active, personalized client discretionary portfolio management.

Lombard Risk Management plc, a leading provider of integrated collateral management, regulatory compliance and reporting solutions for the financial services industry, sponsored the 8th annual collateral management forum, organised by Fleming Europe between 15-17th October in Amsterdam, where around 150 collateral business practitioners gathered to discuss key topical issues: regulation and optimisation included.

MasterCard has announced that it has appointed Safdar Khan to lead its growing Islamic payments business in Southeast Asia with immediate effect.

Neonet Securities, the independent agency broker and execution specialist, today announced that it has partnered with Commits, the independent buy-side investment technology vendor, to broaden its service offering within commission management.

TriOptima, leading provider of OTC derivative post trade risk services, has  announced that its triResolve service for portfolio reconciliation offers a solution to the unmatched trade problem reporting institutions are facing in European trade repositories.

Nasdaq (Nasdaq:NDAQ) has announced that eSpeed, the exchange group's over-the-counter platform for electronic trading in U.S. Treasury securities, successfully introduced U.S. Treasury Bill (TBills) with notional average daily volume exceeding $4 billion and daily highs exceeding $10 billion.

Thomson Reuters, the world’s leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals, has announced that Tradeweb Europe, an affiliate of Thomson Reuters and a leading provider of electronic fixed income and derivatives marketplaces, has selected Thomson Reuters Accelus Org ID (Accelus Org ID) to complement its existing Know Your Customer (KYC) due diligence. 

Thomson Reuters has updated its patented, award-winning PPC's SMART Practice Aids Audit Suite to provide customers with a focused, integrated, and efficient internal control evaluation tool that is fully compliant with COSO's new Internal Control Framework.

SunGard has released the results of a survey on actuarial risk modeling in North America, which highlights increased demand among insurance carriers for sophisticated solutions as traditional spreadsheet models lack the rigor and governance required by today’s actuarial practices.