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Ovum Forecast: IT spending to Hit $90 billion by 2015

London-based independent technology analyst firm Ovum believes IT spending by capital markets firms will rise to almost $90 billion by 2015, driven by strong growth in the Asia-Pacific region and what it calls a "bounce-back" in the hedge fund sector....

Buy-Side Technology | News | Research & Commentary | 08 Aug 2011

ING Taps Bloomberg Research Platform

ING Investment Management is using Bloomberg’s proprietary research management platform technology to create a network for portfolio managers and buy- and sell-side analysts to communicate and collaborate. ING can now share and distribute its proprietary...

Inside Market Data | News | Data Consumers | 01 Aug 2011

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Opening Cross: Economic Uncertainty Raises Value of ‘Insight’

Bloomberg’s latest initiative, a research service called Bloomberg Industries, couldn’t be better-timed. The service—described on the vendor’s website as “our major Data Products launch for 2011”—provides industry- and company-level research...

Inside Market Data | Opinion | Industry Issues & Initiatives | 18 Jul 2011

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Commerz Adds 4Cast FX

Commerzbank’s Corporates and Markets division has integrated foreign exchange analysis and commentary on G4 currencies from 4Cast into the bank’s Click&Trade FX dealing platform, allowing clients to view 4Cast’s chart patterns, economic data and...

Inside Market Data | News | Research & Commentary | 18 Jul 2011

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Worldflow Enlists Firms for Mobile Research

UK-based software consultancy Worldflow last week rolled out a multi-contributor research app for brokers and independent research providers to distribute research reports via Apple iPads and iPhones, and has enlisted European independent research firms...

Inside Market Data | News | Research & Commentary | 18 Jul 2011

ConvergEx Group Expands Commission Management Platform

ConvergEx Group today announced that its research arm, Westminster Research Associates, has expanded its global execution network to over 150 broker-dealers, up from 90 broker-dealers less than two years ago. John Meserve, executive managing director...

Buy-Side Technology | News | Research & Commentary | 22 Jun 2011

EuroIRP, Worldflow Create Indie Research App

The European Association of Independent Research Providers will this week debut a multi-contributor research application for Apple iPads and iPhones, to allow institutional investors to access the latest research reports from EuroIRP’s members via their...

Inside Market Data | News | Research & Commentary | 20 Jun 2011

ITG Buys Ross Smith Energy

Agency brokerage and trading technology provider Investment Technology Group has acquired Canadian oil and gas research provider Ross Smith Energy Group for $38.5 million in cash, to provide technical and financial analysis of the exploration and production...

Inside Market Data | News | alliances, mergers & acquisitions | 13 Jun 2011

TraderMade Adds Asian FX Commentary

UK-based charting and analysis provider TraderMade has expanded the InterpreTA technical market commentary feature of its Maverick analysis platform with the addition of medium-term commentary on eight Asian currency cross-rates. The new commentary...

Inside Market Data | News | Research & Commentary | 23 May 2011

Markit Hub Nets Nomura

Nomura has joined UK-based data vendor Markit's Markit Hub web- and iPad-based research, commentary, news and analytics platform, and will distribute its global fixed income research via Markit Hub to entitled clients, along with additional economic,...

Inside Market Data | News | Research & Commentary | 23 May 2011

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