Accounting and professional services firm Anchin, Block & Anchin has been recognised as one of the Best Companies to Work for in New York State for the sixth consecutive year. »

The UK economy is set to accelerate and grow over the next two years, according to Michael Low, business development manager of Moneycorp. »

Misys has released Sophis VALUE v5, its flagship buy-side solution. »

FIX Protocol Ltd (FPL), the non-profit, industry-driven standards body for the electronic trading community, has published updated recommended guidelines for the use of FIX for post-trade processing. »

Independent commodity investment firm Diapason Commodities Management is to launch the ForestCare Investment Fund, an institutional product investing in tangible forestry assets.    »

Funds managed by Värde Partners have completed the acquisition of FirstCity Financial Corporation. »

Wikipedia could have been used as early warning signs of stock market movements, according to a study published in Scientific Reports. Researchers led by Dr Suzy Moat, senior research fellow at Warwick Business School, found that changes in how often financially related pages were viewed on Wikipedia could have been linked to subsequent movements of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. »

With less than three months to go until new legislation ushers in major changes for the European hedge fund industry, a new report reveals that the continent’s share of the global market has remained surprisingly stable at just over a fifth. »

Celoxica, a provider of ultra low latency market data, order entry and pre-trade risk solutions for high frequency traders and brokers, has extended its hardware accelerated market data products with the launch of the Generic Book Accelerator (GBA) product line for the US market. »

Netage Solutions has appointed Steve Tobio to the position of director of product development. »