Company announcements

Retail banking

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

22 May 2013 | 611 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).

Wholesale banking

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

22 May 2013 | 283 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.

Wholesale banking

RTS Realtime to open data centre in Dubai

22 May 2013 | 332 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

22 May 2013 | 378 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

22 May 2013 | 193 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.

Retail banking

SumUp launches in Russia

22 May 2013 | 487 views | 0

SumUp, the company that empowers merchants to accept debit and credit card payments with their mobile device, has today launched its service in Russia and announced a partnership with Svyaznoy Group, one of Russia's leading retail and financial conglomerates.

Risk & regulation

Numerix adds new features to Leading Hedge

21 May 2013 | 669 views | 0

Numerix, the leading provider of cross-asset analytics for derivatives valuations and risk management today announced new functionality and innovation now available in Numerix Leading Hedge, an enterprise solution for the risk management, product design, pricing, scenario generation and hedging of large blocks of Insurance guarantees.

Risk & regulation

Regulation and data management top-of-mind for US bank executives - KPMG

21 May 2013 | 812 views | 0

Regulation is top of mind for banking executives and is viewed as the primary impediment to growth and traditional bank business models, while the likelihood of mergers and acquisition (M&A) activity within the industry declined, according to a recent survey by KPMG LLP, the audit, tax, and advisory firm.

Post-trade & ops

Direct Edge introduces EdgeRisk Ports

21 May 2013 | 457 views | 0

Direct Edge(R), the third largest stock exchange operator in the United States, announces EdgeRisk Ports, a risk mitigation service which offers market participants dedicated test ports to evaluate the readiness of their systems that connect to the EDGX and EDGA exchanges.

Wholesale banking

iVerit puts equity options data and analytics on mobile

21 May 2013 | 526 views | 0

iVerit Inc. today announced the launch of Option Chain and Option Exchange Market Data, the first suite of apps for the iPhone® and iPad® that offers mobile access to real-time equity options market data and risk analytics.