Accenture has completed the acquisition of Kurt Salmon, a leading global strategy consulting firm focused on the retail industry and a subsidiary of Management Consulting Group. The acquisition was first announced on September 22, 2016.

More than 260 employees of Kurt Salmon across the U.S., Germany, U.K, Japan and China are now part of the Accenture Strategy retail industry practice, strengthening its capabilities in delivering end-to-end strategy consulting services to top retailers and private equity firms.

Recon Capital Advisors, LLC (“RCA”), the investment adviser to the four exchange-traded funds that make up the Recon Capital Series Trust, has entered into an agreement to be acquired by Horizons ETFs Management (USA) LLC (“Horizons USA”), a member of the Horizons Exchange Traded Funds Group, one of the largest collective families of ETFs in the world. RCA’s team will join Horizons USA, a subsidiary of Mirae Asset Global Investments Co., Ltd.

RCA is an SEC Registered Investment Adviser headquartered in Stamford, CT. The firm serves as investment adviser to Exchange Traded Funds.

 IPC Systems, Inc., is proud to announce that one of the company's thought leaders, Ganesh Iyer, IPC's Global Director of Product Marketing, will be presenting to influential European heads of fixed income trading and portfolio management at the Fixed Income Leaders Summit in Barcelona, Spain scheduled to be held from November 8-10, 2016 at the Fairmont Rey Juan Carlos I. The event will focus on critical concerns faced by fixed income professionals such as the evolving regulatory environment and market structure, liquidity shifting to the buy-side and technological innovation.

Any measure that raises awareness of non-bank business finance and promotes greater competition should be welcomed.  However, while we know banks will now have to pass rejected applications for business finance to three designated platforms under this new scheme, it’s unclear what protections are in place to help businesses get the best deal from the proposed alternative finance providers.

 IHS Markit, a world leader in critical information, analytics and solutions, today announced its industry leading syndicated loan data will be integrated into MSCI Inc.’s enhanced syndicated loan risk analytics.

TriOptima, a leading provider of OTC derivatives post-trade risk management services and infrastructure, announces today that an increasing number of financial institutions are joining the triResolve Margin service in anticipation of the new variation margin rules for non-cleared OTC derivatives effective 1 March 2017. These institutions include a variety of dealers, buy-side and corporates such as B & P Fund Services AB, BRED Banque Populaire, Länsförsäkringar Bank AB, The Governor and Company of the Bank of Ireland, Delta Air Lines, Inc, several major Japanese banks and many more.

FINCAD, the leading provider of sophisticated valuation and risk analytics for multi-asset derivatives and fixed income portfolios, today announced that its F3 solution now offers coverage for mortgage-backed securities (MBS) and structured fixed income securities such as RMBS, ABS, CMBS and CLOs via integration with data analytics providers, AD&Co and Intex. Buy side firms can use F3 to accurately hedge exposure and perform scenario analysis across their entire multi-asset portfolio, including derivatives, MBS and related sectors.

AC Lordi, a boutique accounting and management consulting firm, announced today that Bill Dawson will lead the firm’s Risk & Compliance service line (formerly “Risk Management”). Dawson will oversee offerings including internal audit, Sarbanes-Oxley, systems audit & consulting, regulatory compliance and enterprise risk management. He succeeds John Dorsam, who retired earlier this year but will remain involved on a part-time basis to assist with the transition.

linked2pay, an award-winning banking and payments technology provider announced today that they have added 'Pay by Text' as an option on their Bank Centric Payments platform. This enables partners on the bank integrated platform to offer card and ACH payments via SMS text as a fully integrated, branded solution.