The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF), supporting the global rollout of the legal entity identifier (LEI), today announced the appointment of Karla McKenna as its new Head of Standards with immediate effect. Ms.

BT today announced that it is making it easy for investors globally to trade on the equities and derivatives markets of the Japan Exchange Group (JPX), Asia's largest exchange group and the third largest in the world.  Following an agreement between the two firms, members of the BT Radianz Cloud — the world's largest networked financial community — can now access a range of brokers and the market data needed to trade on JPX’s growing markets via their secure, cost-effective and reliable BT Radianz Cloud connection.

Creditcall, the payment gateway provider and EMV Migration specialist, today announced it joined EMVCo, the global technical body overseeing EMV chip card standards, as both an EMVCo Business and Technical Associate.

Euroclear has today made SetClaim, its capital markets payments claims processing service, available to clients. 

SetClaim’s launch reflects Euroclear’s continued and growing relevance to its clients; helping capital markets operations solve fundamental issues in areas facing increased regulatory scrutiny.  SetClaim addresses the challenges of managing the many payment obligations that arise between broker dealers, custodians and other financial firms as a result of their day to day business.

Azul Systems, the award-winning leader in Java runtime solutions, today announced that Zing®, Azul’s Java Virtual Machine (JVM) designed for systems that require consistent low latency and high scalability, has been deployed by Traiana, the leading provider of pre trade risk and post trade processing solutions.  Traiana has chosen to implement Zing on 

 A comprehensive whitepaper published by Celent and commissioned by The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the premier post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, reveals that the long-term success of the Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect (SHSC) hinges on removing the many barriers to participation, including features of the program that restrict trading strategies, introduce risk and create operational c

FINCAD, the leading provider of enterprise valuation and risk analytics for multi-asset, multi-currency portfolios, today announced that it has added several enhancements to its innovative enterprise valuation and risk platform. The firm’s updated F3 Analytics now allow users to trade European Swaptions despite low and negative interest rates in the Eurozone.

Mambu, the SaaS banking platform provider, today announced new capabilities designed to provide small banks, commercial/personal finance companies and microfinance institutions the ability address the complex requirements of lending to small to mid-size enterprises (SMEs).