London - Tokyo Stock Exchange signed an MOU with the Central Bank of Myanmar to develop a new securities exchange, SGX and CIMB Securities partnered to increase membership of the Trading Representatives profession, and KIS selected Orc for access to Korea Exchange.

MetaQuotes' Metatrader 5 Platform was granted Independent Software status on the Dubai Gold and Commodities Exchange, EMCF is to provide interoperable clearing to Turquoise, and CMS deployed NASDAQ OMX's SMARTS Broker for monitoring.

First Derivatives won a contract with a major Australian bank, MarketAxess announced the opening of a São Paulo office, FFastFill is to offer services from Interxion's London data centre, and Lightower Fiber Networks extended into TELEHOUSE's New York data center.

NorthPoint launched workflow management tool Form PF system, ITRS introduced third party app support, AboveNet's fibre optic network is to provide access to BATS Europe and Chi-X Europe, and SunGard released a new version of MarketMap Mobile market data solution.

And finally for those of you with a technical bent: Impulse has announced C-to-FPGA support for Arista Networks 7124FX AppSwitch....