EDGAR Online has formed a deal with the Korea Information Service (KIS) to deliver South Korean public company fundamental data via its I-Metrix Products in the eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) format.

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With the aim of expanding its presence in Japan, Quantifi, an analytics and risk management solutions provider to the global credit markets, has formed a partnership with Rickie Market Solutions (RMS).

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29West, a provider of low-latency messaging technology has partnered with Intelligent Wave (IWI), integration specialists in network technologies serving the financial services industry, so that IWI will provide 29West ultra-low latency solutions and technical support to securities firms and other financial institutions in Japan.

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DST International (DSTi) has made four new appointments at its Australian operations. Ros Barnsley has been appointed to the role of client relations manager; Brian Hamilton is confirmed as business solutions manager; Steven Goddard has joined as senior sales executive and Gwilym Box moves from DSTi Asia to become Australian AWD Solutions Manager.

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Bank of New York Mellon Corporation-owned fund management systems specialist Eagle Investment Systems is opening a new Asia Pacific office in Sydney, Australia.

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Independent electronic foreign exchange (eFX) trading technology provider Integral Development is opening an office in Hong Kong to expand its sales organization to eight offices. The company has also hired Margaret Ma as the office’s first sales executive. Ma recently ended a 13-year career at EBS in Hong Kong where she participated in the introduction of both eFX and fixed income products, including NDFs in regional currencies.

The Bank of New Zealand has upgraded all of its New Zealand-based trading floors with IPC IQMX Enterprise solutions from IPC Systems, replacing the existing BT TDM equipment and technology with IP-based communications.

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Enterprise data fabric provider GemStone Systems and Talentain Technologies, a niche enterprise solutions company, have formed a partnership to deliver high performance computing solutions to the markets in India, the Middle East and South East Asia.

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Macquarie Capital Securities Asia, provider of electronic execution tools tailored for Asia, has joined the private, secure Charles River FIX Network , which is integrated with the Charles River Investment Management System (IMS).

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Tullett Prebon Information and Shanghai Wind Information, China’s integrated service provider of financial data and software, have signed a multi-year agreement for the supply of interest rate, fixed income and money and FX data to the Chinese market.

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Xinhua Finance, a leading Chinese financial information provider and software provider Blue Systemsare partnering to deliver real-time financial market news to financial market professionals’ mobile devices in Hong Kong and mainland China, using Blue Systems’ market data software, blue mobile.

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BNY ConvergEx Group has appointed Luis Camacho as head of ConvergEx Global Markets Asia. He will be based in Hong Kong and report to Anthony Blumberg in New York. Camacho, previously a senior vice president for ConvergEx Global Markets in New York, will now manage all aspects of that business in the Asia Pacific region, including overseeing all sales and trading, client developments and trading technology infrastructure.

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Indian fintech vendor I-flex is changing its company name to Oracle Financial Services, to reflect its “close strategic and operational alignment” with parent company Oracle, which holds a 81 per cent stake in its business.

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Instinet has launched KoreaCross, the first securities crossing network for Korean equities and its ninth alternative trading system (ATS) platform globally, in collaboration Samsung Securities. The new platform aims to provide institutional investors with an anonymous, neutral and a so-called ‘zero-market impact’ platform for trading Korean equities.

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Centurion Bank of Punjab is deploying SuperDerivatives’ SD-Banks multi-asset derivatives platform, together with its SD-IR interest rates module, providing the bank with full pricing and risk control, strategy building, sophisticated sales tools and online execution.

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Prudential Asset Management has selected Impact Investing’s IMPACT system as its strategic model construction tool to be deployed and used in the company’s offices throughout the Asia Pacific region.

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Hong Kong listed Wing Hang Bank has signed a deal that will see apps and software company Misys install an advanced treasury and capital markets software solution in the bank’s Hong Kong Head Office and its subsidiary bank’s operation in China.

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J-Oil Exchange (JOX) has deployed Trayport’s GlobalVision Exchange Trading System, enabling existing and new members to integrate with the exchange. The implementation maintains JOX’s existing bilateral settlement mechanism and provides the ability to support cleared products across multiple asset classes on a single server application throughout Asia.

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Credit Suisse is acquiring an undisclosed stake in Axe ECN, the alternative execution venue targeting the Australian marketplace (Asia Markets IT, April 2007). The ECN, which is expected to launch in mid-2008 (Asia Markets IT, June 2007), is being set up by the New Zealand Exchange (NZX) and five other banks to compete with services provided by the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX). The size and value of the Credit Suisse stake has not been disclosed.

Interdealer broker ICAP has expanded its presence in the Middle East, with a new EBS Prime customer in the Kingdom of Bahrain. The Bank of Bahrain & Kuwait (BBK), based in Bahrain, went live on EBS Prime on March 26. EBS Prime is a facility that enables customer banks to view and trade on the best prices available on the EBS system.

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