Research from Worldpay, the UK’s leading payments processing company, reveals nearly half (48%) of sole-traders trading online say they spent less than £300 to get their website up and running.

The study of small business owners found three-quarters (76%) of sole-traders take a DIY approach to setting up their ecommerce platform in order to keep costs as low as possible, seeking out online guides and getting advice from friendly web developers.

Global Markets Exchange Group Limited (GMEX) are pleased to announce that a number of leading European asset management firms have declared their intention to trade the Euro-denominated Interest Rate Swap Constant Maturity Futures (CMF) contracts on GMEX Exchange via their prime brokers. These include Lyxor Asset Management and Old Mutual Global Investors.

EquiLend successfully rolled out its Next Generation Trading (NGT) securities finance trading platform on Monday, April 27. The platform is now live, with clients from around the world already having executed trades on the platform.

 ONPEX, The Online Payment Exchange, has announced a new partnership with Bank Frick, a leading Liechtenstein private bank and their payment unit; Summit Payment Services.

Summit Payment Services provides secure online payment solutions and acquiring services to European merchants through Bank Frick. The main focus of the company is on general e-commerce in various sectors and geographical locations.

 SYNNEX Corporation (NYSE: SNX), a leading business process services company, announced today its plans to participate in the Global Technology Distribution Council (GTDC) Investor Conference at the New York Stock Exchange in New York.

Banks continue to juggle growing demands to aggregate and analyse risks, stress test overall balance sheets, and assess the capital adequacy and variety of performance and regulatory measures. Since performance depends on many complex models, banks must develop and demonstrate a robust risk model governance strategy to regulators. Failure to actively manage business and regulatory models can expose banks to uncertainty and possibly lead to higher capital requirements.

 Azul Systems, the award-winning leader in Java runtime solutions, today announced thatZing®, Azul’s Java Virtual Machine (JVM) designed for systems that require consistent low latency and high throughput, will be integrated intoTradition’s high performance trading platforms.

Today at the Appian World 2015 conference (#Appian15), Appian is unveiling the latest version of Appian 7, the industry's leading Business Process Management(BPM)-based application platform.

 KPMG LLP, the U.S.

 Liquid Finance Partners Ltd, a leader in the Merchant Cash Advance sector of the fast growing Alternative Funding market, reported today its performance over the last eighteen months where it funded over 650 micro business projects. Since the start of 2015 it has been funding over ten new UK micro businesses every week. With an average transaction size of £20,000 per customer, Liquid Finance is funding over £200,000 a week.