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Update: FTSE Expands ESG Team to Meet Demand in Americas, Asia
Index provider expands ESG index business with trio of new hires.
Koris Adds FTSE Index Data to ETF Analysis Platform
Alliance sees companies collaborate on index data, as well as ETF education initiatives for institutional investors.
Exchange Data Revenues Make Positive Start to 2015
Acquisitions made up for some shortfalls in exchange revenues
LSEG Builds Ties with Borsa Istanbul
Indexes, equity derivatives on partnership agenda.
LSE, Borsa Istanbul Partner on Index Creation
The London Stock Exchange Group and Borsa Istanbul have agreed to cooperate and share expertise to support on the creation of new Turkish indexes, to broaden the country's exposure to international investors.
Thomson Reuters Bags Sproehnle for Benchmarks
Tobias Sproehnle has joined Thomson Reuters in London as global head of benchmark services to head the vendor's global fixings business, responsible for administering more than 70 global benchmark indexes, including the LBMA Silver Price and the Libor…
China Opens Up Capital Markets with Hong Kong Connection
With the impending launch of the Shanghai–Hong Kong Stock Connect program, China has begun allowing foreign investment into its capital markets to an unprecedented degree. But what does this mean for institutional investment firms, and are there still…
LSE Announces £938M Rights Issue to Fund Russell Acquisition
The London Stock Exchange has announced that it intends to raise £938 million ($1.561 billion) in a rights issue (an issue of rights to buy additional securities in a company made to the company's existing security holders) to fund part of the $2.7…
Update: Q2 Exchange Data Revenues Rise, Despite Mixed Overall Financials
Major exchanges worldwide posted significant increases in market data sales in their latest round of their financial results, though they also recorded a mixed bag of total revenues as a consequence of low volumes and low interest rates.
ITRS Names Former FTSE Exec Warren CEO
ITRS Group, a London-based provider of real-time systems monitoring and management technology, has hired Guy Warren as chief executive, replacing Kevin Covington, who will continue to serve as a senior advisor to ITRS after more than five years as CEO.
Opening Cross: Forget ‘Keep it Simple, Stupid.’ Think KIDD—’Keep it Diversified, Dummy"
The market data business is increasingly governed by the need to diversify to respond to market and investment trends. Trading firms seeking exposure to new opportunities diversify the datasets they consume in search of the one that will give them an…
UPDATE: LSE Eyes FTSE-Russell Index Data Combo
The London Stock Exchange plans to consolidate the index calculation and data distribution platforms of its FTSE index subsidiary with those of US-based index provider Russell Indexes—and may migrate the index platforms to proprietary LSE technologies,…
LSE Lays Out Russell Acquisition Proposal
The London Stock Exchange has agreed to buy US-based index provider and asset manager Russell Investments from the Northwestern Mutual Insurance Company for $2.7 billion, in a move to diversify its revenue streams and expand into the US market.
LSE's Russell Buy to Boost International Index Appeal; Analysts Wary of Data Cost Impact
The London Stock Exchange's proposed acquisition of US-based index provider and asset manager Russell Investments from the Northwestern Mutual Insurance Company will allow the exchange to diversify its revenue streams and expand its outreach into the US…
Cumberbatch to Lead Rimes Reference Data Products
Bob Cumberbatch has been hired to lead work on Rimes Technologies' reference data services, with a focus on buy-side firms' management of new regulatory requirements
Charles River Adds Constituent-level Benchmark Data
The Charles River Data Service is collecting constituent-level benchmark data and feeding it into the company's investment management system.
FTSE TMX JV Buys MTS Indexes
FTSE TMX Global Debt Capital Markets--a joint venture between FTSE Group and TMX Datalinx, the information services division of Canadian exchange TMX Group--has bought the indexes business of MTS, the London Stock Exchange-majority owned electronic fixed…
Can Alternative Providers Disrupt Index Inertia?
Though there are almost a hundred mainstream index providers in the industry today, the market remains dominated by a small and elite group of providers—MSCI, S&P Dow Jones Indices, Russell Indexes and FTSE Group. With the industry clamoring for change…
FTSE Urges EOD Index Data Compliance
London Stock Exchange-owned index provider FTSE has asked customers of its end-of-day index data to review their usage to ensure they are properly licensed, as part of continued efforts to promote transparency and compliance across its products and…
2013 Review: Data Licenses Cause Friction Between Exchanges, Users
As exchange revenues from traditional activities such as trading continue to stagnate, more trading venues continued to increase market data fees and to change licensing policies to charge fees for datasets they previously made available at lower rates…
Data Vet Raw Departs FTSE
Tony Raw has left his role as managing director of index provider FTSE International, Inside Market Data has learned.
Opening Cross: Big Data, Small Print
The London Stock Exchange's consolidated data policy could bring benefits to end-users, though in most cases, more data and delivery mechanisms still means more fees.
LSE to Consolidate Data, FTSE Contracts
The London Stock Exchange Group is embarking on a project to simplify contracts within its Information Services division, which will see customers’ existing real-time market data contracts combined with licensing agreements from index provider subsidiary…