Object Trading, a provider of multi-asset trading infrastructure, announced today that its clients and partners will have immediate Direct Market Access (DMA) to CurveGlobal, when live trading begins from 26 September. The access to CurveGlobal, the new interest rate derivatives trading venture, co-owned by London Stock Exchange Group, seven major dealer banks and CBOE, is the most recent addition to Object Trading’s global platform. It follows previous announcements of managed services expansions for venues in Canada and Australia.

Mortech, a Zillow Group business providing mortgage technology solutions for mortgage bankers and secondary market teams, announced a new integration between the Mortech® product and pricing engine (PPE) and QuinStreet, the online marketing and media company.

WISeKey International Holding Ltd has concluded the acquisition of the secure Internet of Things (“IoT”) integrated circuit solutions and semiconductor business from INSIDE Secure, an expert in embedded security solutions for mobile and connected devices.

MoneyRouter is an AML on-boarding and transaction monitoring system designed specifically for banks to use in monitoring money transfers. It integrates both a money transfer and risk assessment and scoring system with a bank’s core banking application to give the banks full end-to-end view of the money transfer process and allowing it to set AML rules which money transfer transactions and businesses have to meet before they can be processed for payment abroad.

I first came across the term “central risk book” at the excellent International Trader Forum event in Rome a couple of weeks back. It seems like it’s the banks’ answer to the dark pool caps that will be upon us in a little over a year. As of January 2018 banks won’t be able to operate their own dark pools in their current form and it seems that the preferred option is to become Systematic Internalisers and trade on a principal basis with clients. The purpose of the CRB in all this is to act as a huge repository for all the firm’s positions.

Kemper Corporation announced that James “Jim” J. McKinney will join the company in November as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. McKinney will report directly to Joseph P. Lacher, Jr., Kemper’s President and Chief Executive Officer. McKinney replaces Frank J. Sodaro, who will serve as a senior advisor to the company through the end of 2016. During the transition period, Richard Roeske, Kemper’s Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer, will serve as interim Chief Financial Officer.

Jack Ma, one of the world's leading entrepreneurs and founder and executive chairman of Alibaba Group, has been named Special Adviser of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) on Youth Entrepreneurship and Small Business.

In his new role as UNCTAD Special Adviser, Mr. Ma will champion initiatives to make it easier for young entrepreneurs and small businesses, particularly in developing countries, to participate in global trade, as well as raise awareness about the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

ClearArc Capital announced today it has been recognized with Top Guns status by Informa Investment Solutions' PSN manager database. The ranking status recognizes top performing institutional investment strategies. Two of the firm’s strategies were among the top 10 performers within one or more peer groups reporting to PSN, the longest-running investment manager database in North America.

Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (NYSE:BR) announced today that it has acquired technology assets of Inveshare, Inc. (“Inveshare”). In connection with the transaction, Broadridge has entered into a development agreement to use these technology assets to develop blockchain applications for Broadridge’s proxy business. The acquisition is expected to accelerate Broadridge’s ability to adapt distributed ledger technology capabilities to its proxy services.

Mahindra Comviva, the global leader in mobility solutions, today announced that the latest version of mobiquity® Wallet, the company's digital wallet platform for financial institutions, leverages key features of iOS 10, the biggest release ever of Apple's operating system.