Emerging Technologies
The Waters Weekly Wrap: January 12-16
A look back at the best content published across all the Waters brands
Bidding War for GFI Surges
Both sides increase their offers for interdealer broker.
FIF's Kimmel Named to SEC Market Structure Committee
The US Securities and Exchange Commission has set up a new Equity Market Structure Advisory Committee, staffed by senior executives from the trading and financial technology industries, including Manisha Kimmel, managing director of market data industry…
1010Data ‘Facts' Launch Marks First Foray into Market Data Vendor Space
Proprietary and third-party data moves vendor away from just providing analytics platforms.
New SEC Rules Increase Transparency in Security-Based Swap Market
Reporting rules, guidance on security-based swap transaction proposed
Fiserv and HedgeACT Announce Hedge Fund Alliance
Collaboration will allow investors access to hedge funds for as little as $100,000.
BGC Proposes Contingent Increase in GFI Offer
Interdealer broker ups the stakes as crunch time approaches for rival bid.
TPI Grows Asia, MidEast Teams for Regional Sales Push
New regional appointments include two hires from Thomson Reuters
BondWave Adds SunGard's Daley, DPC's Chintala to Exec Team
BondWave, a Wheaton, Illinois-based provider of trade support, monitoring, alerting and reporting software for fixed income investors and financial advisors, has hired Paul Daley as managing director of its Fixed Information Lab, the vendor's research…
Calypso Hires Ramasamy as SVP for Business Services and Utilities
Calyspo creates new role, hires Ventakesh Ramasamy as SVP
Fico Acquires Financial Crime Firm Tonbeller
Deal moves Fico firmly into growing financial crime and compliance space.
Bohrman Takes Over SIX US as Raskin Departs for New Role
SIX global head of client support Roger Bohrman, also a veteran of the company, succeeds Barry Raskin in US leadership role at data services provider
Bohrman Takes Over SIX US as Raskin Departs for Undisclosed New Role
SIX shuffles US executive team in wake of Raskin's departure.
SEC Equity Market Structure Committee Full of Tech Faces
New group formed to tackle growing issues
Nasdaq Taps Ex-Lewtan Tech's Donde for Global Data Head
Nasdaq has appointed Salil Donde executive vice president and head of global information services, responsible for leading the strategic direction of the business and managing the growth of Nasdaq's current data and index products, effective Feb. 5.
Societe Generale Hires Analytics Manager
Olivier Doublet, who had worked in performance analytics at BNP Paribas for about 10 years, has joined the firm in Paris.
Fenergo Expands Team in North America
Irish data management services provider appoints Andrew Wolf as new account director
CBOE Launches VIX Indexes on CME FX Contracts
The Chicago Board Options Exchange has begun calculating and distributing index values for three new foreign exchange volatility indexes based on CME Group-listed US dollar-euro, dollar-pounds sterling and dollar-Japanese yen futures options contracts.
Diliger Seeks £500K in Crowdfunding to Grow Consumer Presence
Company aims to fund investments in salespeople and product development.
Blackstone Takes Stake in Data Management-as-a-Service Startup MDI
Investment and public backing provides growth funding and validation of MDI's business model
Abacus Adds Los Angeles Office
Hosted IT solutions provider Abacus Group has opened a new office in Los Angeles, its second in California.
Lovisolo Joins Coherence Capital as COO, CRO
John Lovisolo leaves Barclays for New York-based asset manager
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.
Morningstar Shuffles Investment, Research Execs
Chicago-based market data and investment research provider Morningstar has appointed Daniel Needham president of the vendor's Morningstar Investment Management group, effective Monday, Feb. 2, in addition to his existing responsibilities as chief…