BCS Prime Brokerage Ltd, the international arm of BCS Financial Group, the largest broker of equities and derivatives on the Moscow Exchange, has been granted membership on Eurex, Europe’s largest derivatives exchange and the second largest globally.

BCS Prime has become a Non-Clearing Member (NCM), which allows trading participation and provides clients access to the Eurex exchange.

Thomson Reuters, the world’s leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals, has today announced a number of key enhancements to its bank-to-customer e-commerce platform, Electronic Trading, to enrich liquidity, reduce latency and improve customer experience.

Surecomp^®, the leading global provider of trade finance solutions for banks and corporations, announced today that COR-TF^®, its multi-bank corporate trade finance solution, has been awarded the “SWIFT Certified Application – Trade and Supply Chain Finance for Corporates” label for the fourth consecutive year.

Connective, a leading provider of e-signatures, e-transactions and e-mandates solutions announces today that is has opened its Dutch office in The Hague, the Netherlands.

 Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (NYSE:BR) has completed its acquisition of the Fiduciary Services and Competitive Intelligence unit from Thomson Reuters’ (NYSE: TRI) Lipper division. The acquisition expands Broadridge’s leading enterprise data and analytics solutions for mutual fund manufacturers, ETF issuers, and fund administrators, adding new global data and research capabilities. Broadridge announced its agreement to acquire the business on May 21, 2015. Terms were not disclosed.

London-based money transfer startup TransferWise says it is now processing £500 million a month on its platform, saving customers some £22 million in fees compared to equivalent bank rates.

Volante Technologies, a global leader in the provision of financial message and data integration, validation and processing software, today announced a strategic partnership with Access to Arabia (A2A).  The initial focus of the partnership is to aid banks in Jordan, many of whom are existing A2A clients, migrate to ISO 20022-based payment messages.

Vodafone's Turkish arm is using technology from EyeVerify to enable customers to open its mobile wallet simply by looking at their handsets.

Tennis champion Andy Murray announced today that he has entered a long-term partnership arrangement with Seedrs, the London-based equity crowdfunding platform.

The arrangement will see Andy joining the Seedrs Advisory Board to provide advice to the firm with respect to businesses working in the health, sport and wearable technology spaces. Andy will not be offering advice to individual investors or recommending specific campaigns.

 A study conducted by SunGard reveals that one out of three energy traders demand advanced analytics, business intelligence and overall more responsive and integrated energy/commodity trading and risk management systems (E/CTRM) in order to adapt and thrive in today’s “perfect storm” in energy and commodities.