This Week: Refinitiv; State Street/BlackRock; SteelEye; SimCorp; FEX Global/TT

A summary of some of the past week’s financial technology news.

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Refinitiv suffers outage in Eikon platform

Refinitiv was hit by a five-hour-long outage on Thursday morning, April 8, which knocked out its Eikon platform for market prices at approximately around 7.30 GMT. The service was fully restored by 13.00 GMT, Refinitiv said in an email sent to customers. 

“The services were stabilized for customers connecting to the APAC and EMEA data centers as of 13.00 GMT,” said the email. “Authenticating servers in the AMER [Americas] region had been stable since

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Waters Wrap: The tough climb for startups

Anthony speaks with two seasoned technologists to better understand why startups have such a tough time getting banks and asset managers to sign on the dotted line.

FCA declines to directly regulate market data prices

A year-long investigation by the UK regulator to determine whether competition is hindered in the wholesale data markets has concluded with its decision not to directly regulate much-maligned data pricing and licensing structures.

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