BNY Mellon says it has enhanced its foreign exchange payment capabilities.

Its Frankfurt and London branches have significantly increased the number of global currencies they can provide, it says, with the total expected to exceed 120 currencies over time. 

Clients holding accounts in Frankfurt and London can use account balances in a single currency to instruct FX payments in various currencies as required.

Clients are provided with a range of payment initiation options, including BNY Mellon's proprietary TreasuryEdge(SM) electronic portal, EDI ASC X12, and SWIFT.

Nomura Research Institute (NRI), a provider of consulting services and system solutions, says that in spring 2016 it will begin providing asset managers with IDS-BIS, NRI’s integrated data service offering, to assist with Basel III compliance reporting. 

The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF), the body responsible for ensuring the operational integrity of the Global Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) System, has launched the Global LEI Index, which provides information, updated daily, on the nearly 400,000 LEIs issued to date.

Schweizerische Mobiliar Asset Management AG has chosen the integrated investment management system XENTIS from Profidata Group. 

The London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) is launching CurveGlobal, a new interest rate derivatives venture, in partnership with a number of major dealer banks: Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Barclays, Citi, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan and Société Générale, together with the Chicago Board Options Exchange (the Investors). 

SmartStream, the financial Transaction Lifecycle Management (TLM) specialist, reports the launch of its TLM Collateral Management adaptor to provide a full lifecycle of trading messages for the non-clearing OTC derivatives market.

Harmoney Corp Limited, which describes itself as Australasia's largest and fastest growing peer to peer lending marketplace, today announced that two of the world's leading P2P experts Jon Barlow, founder of Eaglewood Capital Management and Phin Upham, principal at Thiel Capital, have joined its advisory board and become shareholders.