Company announcements

Mobile & online

Xoom and Vesta partner to offer international mobile money transfers

17 hours ago | 347 views | 0

Xoom Corporation (Nasdaq:XOOM), a digital money transfer provider, and Vesta Corporation, a leading mobile payments provider, today announced a partnership to offer international money transfers using mobile devices.

Trade execution

HKEx resumes trading after black rain shut down

17 hours ago | 282 views | 0

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEx) announced that trading in the securities and derivatives markets would resume from 1:00 pm, after the cancellation this morning of the Black Rainstorm Warning.

Post-trade & ops

Rimes reports buy side uptick in data management sales

17 hours ago | 239 views | 0

RIMES, a leader in data management for the buy-side, was selected during the first quarter of 2013 by some of the world's leading investment managers seeking to enhance efficiency against a backdrop of a rapidly evolving data industry.

Retail banking

Ingenie taps SAS to analyse black box driving data

17 hours ago | 328 views | 0

SAS, the leader in business analytics, has been selected by ingenie, the car insurer for young drivers, to enhance its use of telematics data and deliver behaviour-based pricing and marketing programmes to its customers.

Trade execution

S&P Capital IQ extends co-lo link to Hong Kong Exchange

18 hours ago | 263 views | 0

S&P Capital IQ's Real Time Solutions has extended its low latency connectivity and co-location services to Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEx), through its QuantLINK solution.

Mobile & online

Monitise signs 60K subscribers for Indonesian BBM Money service in first three months

18 hours ago | 509 views | 0

Mobile Money leader Monitise plc (LSE: MONI.L) today announced the early success of BBM Money, the P2P mobile payments service launched through its Joint Venture with Astra International (AGIT Monitise Indonesia) in partnership with Indonesian financial institution PT Bank Permata Tbk (PermataBank) and BlackBerry® (NASDAQ: BBRY; TSX: BB).

Risk & regulation

European trade repository Regis-TR signs MoU with Russia's National Settlement Depository

18 hours ago | 223 views | 0

REGIS-TR, the European Trade Repository owned by Clearstream (Deutsche Börse Group) and Iberclear (BME), and National Settlement Depository (NSD), the Russian Central Securities Depository, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to intensify their cooperation on the mutual exchange of information. The MOU addresses the development of communication channels and a cooperative relationship for the purpose of supporting and advancing the development of both organisations' repository systems.

Trade execution

RTS Realtime to open data centre in Dubai

18 hours ago | 293 views | 0

RTS Realtime Systems Group (RTS), a leading global trading solutions provider, today announced plans to open its newest data center in Dubai, the first Middle East site in its global data center network.

Wholesale banking

Compono Strategia to use risk analytics from MSCI credit risk platform in Middle East

18 hours ago | 305 views | 0

Compono Strategia, a credit risk services provider, has leveraged risk analytics from RiskMetrics, an MSCI brand.

Wholesale banking

ITG launches Posit dark crossing for Singaporean equities

18 hours ago | 174 views | 0

ITG (NYSE: ITG), a leading independent execution and research broker, today announced the addition of Singapore trading to the award-winning POSIT® crossing network.