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S&P Shuffles Execs Following Divisional Restructure
After a New Year restructure that spun Platts out of S&P Global Market Intelligence as a separate, standalone division of S&P Global, the vendor has announced senior executive changes within the GMI division.
Risk Focus Appoints Harding and Hair as Sales Directors
New York-based pair will lead sales in cloud, DevOps and financial services for vendor.
Nasdaq Sues IEX for Trading, Data Patent Infringements
Nasdaq's lawsuit alleges infringement of a number of patents covering its trading process and certain data elements by IEX.
SenaHill Taps Industry Vets Korhammer, Weil to Head Markets, Info Providers Sectors
Korhammer is best known for founding electronic equities trading platform Lava Trading, which was acquired by Citigroup.
SIPs Publish Historical Consolidated Tape Revenue
Officials say that making the new data available is part of continuing efforts to increase transparency around the SIPs.
QuasarDB Uses Funding to Open New York Office
The new office follows a recent $2.5 million funding round to expand its US operations.
Guardian Taps NeoXam for Data Management
Officials say Guardian will be able to eliminate a number of "cumbersome" data management and compliance processes as a result of implementing NeoXam's solutions.
Hard Labor: Dealing With Alternative Data
Everyone’s excited about the potential untapped alpha promised by “alternative data,” yet those who work with it are far from excited about the prospect of evaluating unwieldy and unstructured datasets. Max Bowie looks at the practical challenges of…
Lock, Stock & Barrel: Securities Lending Under the Gun
Securities finance has a new battlefront: two lawsuits alleging anticompetitive behavior in stock lending. At the center of the allegations lies the difficulty of finding actionable price and inventory data for borrowers and lenders alike. Will this…
Thomson Reuters LPC, DealVector Ally for Bond Messaging
The integration will give LPC clients access to liquidity on DealVector's platform, and give DealVector clients access to data adn news from LPC.
Jane Street SI Joins QuantHouse API Ecosystem
Jane Street’s systematic internalizer is now available to QuantHouse’s API clients.
EDI ‘Solves’ for Real-Time Fixed Income Pricing
The alliance will provide real-time data parsed from client communications and submitted by market participants.
Open Platform: A Data Edge in the Cloud Age
OneMarketData's Louis Lovas outlines the key concerns facing firms considering migrating data management functions to a cloud environment.
BNY Mellon Taps Barr for CDO
Barr has 30 years of industry experience, much of that time in market data and enterprise data management roles.
RegTek.Solutions Hires Bernstein as CFO
Rob Bernstein joins RegTek.Solutions from TIM Group, where he was CFO for seven years.
Ex-CME’s McElligott Emerges at Tradeweb
The former CME veteran will be responsible for monetizing Tradeweb's market data, and for finding ways to use its data and analytics to drive trading on its platforms.
Data Head Jones Departs BarCap
Jones spent a combined 22 years at Barclays and UBS in data and technology management roles.
Twitter, Neudata’s Morse Joins AI Banking ‘Assistant’ Finn.ai
Morse, a former speaker on social media usage and alternative data at IMD's North American Financial Information Summit, will help Finn.ai grow its "strategic" accounts business.
Options Offers NYSE Integrated Feed in Co-Los
By making NYSE's Integrated Feed available via its managed connectivity platform, officials say the vendor now supports NYSE's entire suite of datafeeds.
TNS Adds Co-Lo Hosting Centers in NY, Chicago
Expanding the managed hosting service to key market centers in the New York and Chicago metro areas will help firms gain access to data and trading on "hundreds" of platforms without having to buy proprietary infrastructure.
Thomson Reuters, Blackstone Agree $20B Financial & Risk Unit Spin-Off
Thomson Reuters has agreed to sell its Financial & Risk unit to a new company minority-owned by the vendor and majority owned by a consortium led by Blackstone Group.
Thomson Reuters in Talks to Sell Stake in Financial & Risk Unit
The vendor confirms it is in discussions to sell a portion of the financial data business it acquired in 2007 as a result of Thomson Corp.'s purchase of Reuters.
TRG Licenses DART Terminal Usage Tracking Capabilities from Vela
Under the deal, TRG will sell Vela's DART Terminal Usage Analytics tool, though Vela will continue to provide support services and ongoing development.
Duco to Open Asia Office, Enhance Product Offering After $28 Million Investment
The investment will help Duco grow its staff by about 140 percent and incorporate machine-learning tools into its offering.