SS&C Technologies' Intelligent Automation Solutions has made substantial upgrades to its SS&C Chorus intelligent automation platform with its latest software release, Chorus BPM 21.1.

Exactpro, an independent provider of software testing services for mission-critical financial technology, is to launch its subsidiaries in Lithuania and Sri Lanka in 2021.

DMA Prime, a provider of execution and prime brokerage services to institutional asset managers in South Africa, has selected TORA’s OEMS and TORA’s outsourced trading service.

Gulf Bank has successfully launched the MX.3 integrating platform in collaboration with Murex, a specialist in trading, risk management and processing solutions for capital markets.

EBS, a provider of electronic trading platforms and technology services in foreign exchange markets, has launched its next-generation EBS Direct platform.

SIPP provider iPensions Group is strengthening its focus on innovation with private cloud infrastructure from technology solutions provider Rackspace Technology (NASDAQ: RXT).

GoDoFX, a brokerage in the UAE, has selected Integral MarginFX to support the growth of its FX and CFD business.

Asset management firms are accelerating their digital transformation, with almost half planning to boost their digital spend in the coming year. The push to digitalise been driven by the rise of low-cost passive investing and digital-first challenger banks, which have squeezed the margins of traditional asset managers.

Santander Bank Polska, one of the largest and most innovative financial institutions in Poland, has successfully deployed Horizon’s Platform for Market Making connecting to the Warsaw Stock Exchange (WSE).

Architas, a global asset manager with GBP33.6 billion AUM and AUA, has selected NeoXam’s DataHub platform to support a broader IT and operational transformation programme that includes the revamping of its existing front and middle office systems across their global multi-fund business.