paddypowertrader upgrades to Ariel’s cutting-edge Multi Asset Trading Platform   London, 24 November, 2009: Ariel (www.arielcommunications.co.uk/), the experts in Multi Asset Trading Platforms (Financial Spread Betting, Foreign Exchange and CFD trading software), today announces that paddypowertrader (www.paddypowertrader.com) has successfully gone live with Ariel’s next generation Multi Asset Trading Platform (MATP). Retail clients of paddypowertrading.com now benefit from a brand new web based front end with a wealth of new features.   paddypowertrader is a major white label of London Capital Group, (www.capitalspreads.com/) which has a list of clients also powered by Ariel’s technology, including financial spreadbetting sites E*Trade Spread Betting (www.etradespreadbetting.com) andTradefair Spreads (www.tradefair.com)   Ariel was commissioned by paddypowertrader to deliver a new trading platform to replace their existing Flash-based system.

- 4th annual survey shows equities returning to favour –

23 November 2009 – Baring Asset Management’s (Barings) annual select poll of UK pension schemes* reveals that almost a third (29%) are now more likely to allocate to emerging markets as a result of the recent global market volatility, compared to 4.3% in 2007 and 0% last year.

Of those pension funds that invest in emerging market equities, 90% include Asia in their portfolio while three quarters (76%) of funds invest in Eastern Europe and Latin America.  Just under half (48%) of UK pension funds invest their equity exposure in global emerging markets though a standalone emerging markets mandate, whereas 43% invest it as part of a global equity portfolio.

London, 18th November 2009 - Interxion, a leading European operator of carrier-neutral data centres, today announced it will be supporting the Broad Group’s 3rd Finance and Investment Forum for Data Centres in London on the 3rd December 2009.

At this year’s event, senior members of operating companies worldwide, financiers, investors, private equity firms, professional intermediaries, law firms and investment agencies will converge in London to consider critical issues facing data centre finance, such as cloud computing, globalisation, green issues, and ideas and opportunities for future development.

New service is 7.5 times more efficient for consumers than using a credit card

London, 17th November 2009 – GoPayforit (www.gopayforit.com) today announced that it had launched its new mobile, small payments service to enable bloggers and content owners to more easily sell content online. By using GoPayforit, lower priced content can now be purchased by consumers in an easier, more manageable and less time-consuming way. 

GoPayforit allows bloggers and content owners to set up a payment service for their site by inserting one simple line of code. Once established, this enables consumers to debit money directly from their mobile phone bill (PAYG or contract) in order to make payments. UK mobile operators provide support for GoPayforit as a secure transaction platform as it is based on the tried and tested Payforit platform.