Standard Bank has signed a 10-year contract with Thomson Financial for its Beta Systems Capital back-office clearing and settlement platform. Standard Bank, the London-based subsidiary of Standard Bank of South Africa, has already rolled out Capital to manage securities settlement at its London and New York offices with future plans to support its Moscow and Hong Kong offices from a central London hub next year. Separately, fund management firm Henderson Global Investors is rolling out Thomson One Investment Management platform across its operations in London, Singapore and Tokyo. Users in London will be amongst the first European clients to adopt the recently launched system, while users in Asia will be upgraded before year-end from Thomson One Analytics.