Fidessa group plc (LSE: FDSA) has announced that Toyo Securities, an independent securities company headquartered in Tokyo, has selected Fidessa as its new wholesale agency trading system. Fidessa's agency trading platform is currently used by six of the top eight domestic brokers in Japan, as well as by many of the country's mid-tier brokers.

Truphone, the mobile network operator without country borders, today announced the addition of five new emerging market business hubs, Israel, Malaysia, South Africa, South Korea and Taiwan to its Truphone World business package.

With the addition of the five countries, customers of Truphone World can take advantage of Truphone’s global network of 66 countries, made up of the biggest emerging markets, technology and business hubs.

 Adyen, the global payments technology company, today published its quarterly Mobile Payments Index (MPI), which tracks browser-based mobile payment data across Adyen’s global customer base.

·         The Index reveals that iPhone devices account for a massive 35.6% of all browser-based transactions made using mobile devices, and are now used for 10.2% of all global online transactions, up from 8.6% at the turn of the year.

SimCorp’s fourth annual Client Communications and Reporting 2015 conference, for private wealth and institutional asset managers, returns to Merchant Taylors’ Hall in London’s Threadneedle Street on Monday, 21 September, 2015.

The conference, which has ‘agility’ as its theme, will be chaired by Peter Bambrough, Principal Consultant at Citisoft, a leading global investment management consulting firm.

MetricStream is a market leader in enterprise-wide Governance, Risk, Compliance (GRC) and Quality Management Solutions. Their market leading enterprise and clod Apps for GRC enable organizations to strengthen risk management, regulatory compliance, vendor governance, and quality management while driving business performance. Leading companies accross industry verticals are benefiting from MetricStream's simple and modular approach to GRC that is transforming risk management in a business environment that is increasingly mobile, social, global and virtual.

Colliers International Group Inc. (NASDAQ:CIGI) (TSX:CIG) announced today that it has acquired IDB Management ("IDB"), a leading asset and property management firm in Belgium. As part of the transaction, IDB will be rebranded as Colliers International and the principals will lead its asset and property management segment going forward. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

 Kx Systems, a leader in high-performance database and time-series analytics, has announced that it has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for use of its kdb+ software in supporting its ongoing IT objectives.

Kdb+ is a database system with a built-in time-series query language called q, which allows unified access to streaming, real-time and historical data. Kdb+ is well-suited for the SEC because of the large volumes of data it is aggregating and analyzing for applications that will include, among others, web-based reporting tools.

Stedin, one of the largest independent energy system operators in the Netherlands, today announced that it is joining the European Network for Cyber Security (ENCS) as a Member. The company will be joining a network that is committed to improving the security of the Smart Grid across Europe, including companies such as Alliander, E.ON, EVN, Enexis and KPN.

Thomson Reuters announces the second annual Taxologist Awards, a program that recognizes outstanding tax departments and individuals who excel in maximizing tax function effectiveness.

The Taxologist Awards were developed in 2014 to honor excellence in the tax department and support the growing need for technology expertise in the tax profession. The awards seek to recognize the most effective leaders in the increasingly critical tax technology space.