NEW YORK, September 15 /PRNewswire/ --

- Comprehensive solution offers integration and payments management features

Powering finance with data management innovations, Volante today unveiled Volante Payments Bridge, its comprehensive solution for corporate treasuries implementing SWIFT messaging and SWIFTNet connectivity. Designed for the challenges of complex legacy environments, extensive banking relationships, high-volume and high-value payment traffic, Payments Bridge provides a cost-effective and quick-to-implement solution for managing payment communications.

Payments Bridge is being demonstrated this week at SWIFT's Sibos conference in Vienna at the Volante Stand B203.

NEW YORK, September 15 /PRNewswire/ --

- Support for C# code generation from Volante data models now enables SWIFT data movement in and out of Microsoft business solutions

Powering finance with data management innovations, Volante today released its new .NET implementation of SWIFT messaging to provide built-in compatibility with models, applications and development activities based on Microsoft .Net Framework and BizTalk solutions. The core of this offering is the C# code generator, a platform option offered with Volante Composer.

SWIFT implementation on .NET, as well as the full range of Volante integration capabilities for SWIFT messaging, is being demonstrated this week at the Volante Stand B203 at SWIFT's Sibos conference in Vienna.

BOSTON, NEW YORK and LONDON, September 15 /PRNewswire/ --

- Omgeo Continues to Build Upon Track Record of Innovation and Standard Setting

Omgeo, the global standard for post-trade efficiency, today announced that it has acquired Allustra, a London-based provider of collateral management solutions. Allustra offers a suite of products that provide customers the ability to consolidate trade positions across asset classes, including OTC derivatives, and to manage the collateral process that mitigates the associated counterparty risk. Mark James, managing director of Allustra, joins Omgeo's executive committee as managing director.

SINGAPORE, September 15 /PRNewswire/ --

Singapore-based NanoMaterials Technology Pte Ltd ("NMT"), announced today that it has appointed Dr Frank U. Floether to its Scientific Advisory Board ("SAB").

VIENNA, Austria, September 15 /PRNewswire/ --

- Microsoft BizTalk Server to help reduce risk and time for securities workflow between ING and its settlement counterparty.

DALLAS, September 15 /PRNewswire/ --

- Entrust and Slovenia to demonstrate interoperability during ePassports EAC Conformity & Interoperability Tests in Prague

After successful deployment of their first-generation ePassport solution in 2006, Slovenia again has selected Entrust, Inc. (Nasdaq: ENTU) to facilitate their government's migration to a second-generation ePassport solution based on the Extended Access Control (EAC) standard. With this, Slovenia becomes one of the first countries in the world to announce its migration to second-generation ePassports.

The next major advance in computer processors will be the move from today's two-dimensional chips to three-dimensional circuits, and the first three-dimensional synchronization circuitry is now running at 1.4 gigahertz at the University of Rochester.

Unlike past attempts at 3-D chips, the Rochester chip is not simply a number of regular processors stacked on top of one another. It was designed and built specifically to optimize all key processing functions vertically, through multiple layers of processors, the same way ordinary chips optimize functions horizontally. The design means tasks such as synchronicity, power distribution, and long-distance signaling are all fully functioning in three dimensions for the first time.

The recent dramatic melting and breakup of a few huge Greenland glaciers have fueled public concerns over the impact of global climate change, but that isn't the island's biggest problem.

A new study shows that the dozens of much smaller outflow glaciers dotting Greenland's coast together account for three times more loss from the island's ice sheet than the amount coming from their huge relatives.

In a study just published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, scientists at Ohio State University reported that nearly 75 percent of the loss of Greenland ice can be traced back to small coastal glaciers.

Despite low overall unemployment, Canada's manufacturing industry has cut 88,000 jobs this year, with nearly all the losses occurring in Ontario. Also, part-time employment has grown by 3.5 per cent in 12 months, much faster than the 0.9 per cent growth in full time work. A new report from the World Health Organization (WHO) on the social determinants of health demonstrates that these kind of employment changes can affect more than your wallet. Research from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH)'s Dr. Carles Muntaner in the WHO report highlights the profound impact of employment conditions on health.

Dr. Muntaner and his research team found that poor mental health outcomes are associated with precarious employment (e.g. temporary contracts or part-time work with low wages and no benefits). When compared with those with full-time work with benefits, workers who report employment insecurity experience significant adverse effects on their physical and mental health.