Fidessa group plc (LSE: FDSA) today announced the latest version of its Minerva buy-side order management system (OMS). Minerva sits within Fidessa's Investment Management Solutions suite which provides asset managers with comprehensive, end-to-end workflow for investment decision, compliance, orders & trading and post-trade across all asset classes.

Milestone Group, the global provider of optimised fund processing solutions, today announced that Henderson Global Investors (HGI) has gone live with pControl Fund Oversight across its extensive range of mutual funds and investment trusts. The Fund Oversight solution has enabled HGI to automate the collection of fund valuation data and the subsequent execution of their independent, daily NAV price validations and controls.

FinTech Studios, a leading NYC-based FinTech software company, announced today the acquisition of iUbble Inc., a FinTech software startup created 2 years ago by students and faculty at the Stevens Institute of Technology, a premier, private research university in Hoboken, N.J.

Linedata (NYSE Euronext: LIN), the global solutions provider dedicated to the investment management and credit industries, is pleased to announce that the latest release of Linedata Capitalstream, the Best-in-Class Lending & Leasing solution, is now available.

One of the hottest trends in tech right now is the Internet of Things, or IoT. Morgan Stanley projects that within the next five years, as many as 75 billion smart connected devices will be communicating with each other via IoT. Research from Gartner predicts that IoT will generate nearly $2 trillion in global economic value by 2020.

Verizon Enterprise Solutions today unveiled a new value added distributor program for the company's enterprise technology services, including global networking and security business communications, IT solutions and managed services.SYNNEX Corporation (NYSE: SNX), a leading Technology Solutions distributor, is the first value added distributor to offer this new distribution model and will include Verizon's Rapid Response Retainer in the portfolio of connectivity, security, cloud and collaboration services they provide their expansive network of solution providers.

 Object Trading and G. H. Financials today announce readily-available direct market access to the ASX 24.  G. H. Financials, a leader in order-routing, clearing and settlement services to the world’s derivatives markets, has become a conformed broker on the managed DMA (Direct Market Access) service platform of Object Trading, a provider of a global, multi-asset trading infrastructure.   Market participants can now easily trade on the ASX 24, with minimal onboarding times, as G. H.

Founded in 2000, ARQA Technologies is a leading independent financial software provider in Russia and CIS. ARQA’s automated front-to-back solutions are used by over 300 sell- and buy-side institutions from different countries.

The flagship product is QUIK – the multifunctional EMS/OMS platform for trading securities and provision of related services. It is used by both Sell and Buy Side for proprietary operations and brokerage/asset management services to clients.

JHC Systems Limited , a leading provider of wealth management solutions, has today announced the appointment of John Boggis as its new Head of Sales.  

RBS’s latest move to replace staff with ‘robo-advisers’ may seem like doom and gloom for the idea of the traditional labour market as we know it- but this needn’t be the case. Despite popular opinion, the rise of robots, ‘smart robotics' or in this specific instance, ‘robo-advisers’ can actually transform how people have always done business into how they have always wanted to do business- and more importantly- in the way that best suits today’s busy consumer.