Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (NYSE:BR) today announced the appointments of Liz Pedersen as senior vice president of wealth managed services and Traci Mabrey as head of wealth solutions.

Olivetree Group, a global financial services firm, today announced the appointment of Chris Pilder as the new CEO of its US business. In his new role, he will be responsible for expanding and building upon Olivetree’s footprint in the region. This recent appointment highlights the substantial growth of Olivetree’s US business over the last two years.

Sequel Business Solutions, the leading insurance and reinsurance software specialist, has today announced that DUAL Group, a subsidiary of Hyperion Insurance Group, is the 20^th company to choose Sequel Impact, Sequel’s innovative risk exposure and aggregation tool. Sequel Impact is the first product to give the underwriter’s front office an accurate, graphically displayed exposure and analysis management tool – all in a single solution and in real time.

 Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the global interconnection and data center company, today announced that the U.S.

An updated lodging forecast released today by PwC US expects another year of solid revenue per available room ("RevPAR") growth in 2015, with a stronger-than-previously-expected increase in occupancy levels, offset by softer than anticipated growth in room rates. Despite weak U.S. economic performance driven in part by unseasonably harsh winter weather conditions, the U.S.

AudioCodes Ltd.  (NasdaqGS: AUDC), a leading provider of converged voice solutions that enable enterprises and service providers to transition to all-IP voice networks, today announced that it has received court approval to repurchase up to $15 million of its Ordinary Shares, NIS 0.01 nominal value, through December 31, 2015. The share repurchases will be funded from available working capital.

Online money transfer service WorldRemit has launched in five countries in South America and Eastern Europe. WorldRemit customers can now send money transfers direct to the bank accounts of their friends and family in Chile, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovenia and Bulgaria.

Bondcube, the Fixed Income trading platform, is pleased to announce that ITG, the independent execution broker, has been appointed as a US trading intermediary for Bondcube’s buy-side to buy-side trades.
 
As a US trading intermediary on Bondcube, ITG will facilitate the settlement of trades between buy-sides. The partnership will increase the probability of a match for clients of both firms by allowing ITG clients access to the additional Bondcube liquidity and participants and vice-versa.
 

 FIX Trading Community, the non-profit, industry-driven standards body at the heart of global financial trading, today announced the results of its Global Post-Trade Survey used to determine the use of FIX in the post-trade workflow. An overwhelming majority of respondents asserted their use of FIX for the confirmation/affirmation process.

New research has forecast that mobile data traffic, generated by Smartphones, Featurephones and Tablets, will approach almost 197,000 PB (Petabytes) by 2019, equivalent to over 10 billion Blu-ray movies, according to Juniper Research.

However, the research found that only 41% of the data generated by these devices will be carried over cellular networks by 2019, with the majority of mobile data traffic offloaded to Wi-Fi networks.