Emerging Technologies
Genscape Buys Energy Fundamentals for European Power Analysis Expansion
Energy and commodities supply data provider Genscape has acquired Swiss power fundamental data and analysis provider Energy Fundamentals for an undisclosed sum, to extend its European offering by combining the vendor's analytics and scenario analysis…
AlphaSense Grabs Gunther for Sales
San Francisco-based AlphaSense, a provider of financial search, indexing and extraction technologies for structured and unstructured content, has hired John Gunther in New York as vice president of sales, responsible for driving growth of the vendor's…
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…
UK Announces Four Quantum-Tech Hubs
The UK government has announced that four universities will serve as hubs for research into quantum technology, the results of which could have broad applications for financial-market technology.
McCoubrey Trades TIM for Predictive Retail Analytics
Dianne McCoubrey has left trade ideas platform vendor TIM Group, where she was regional sales director for the Americas, to become executive director of sales at Retalon, a provider of predictive analytics for retail inventory management, merchandising…
An Extra Helping of Volatility?
Revisiting the curious case of October 15th.
Pershing Has Eye on Client Onboarding for 2015
Pershing's CIO talks about some of the trends he has his eyes on
Tullett Prebon's PVM Buy Will Boost Oil Data
Interdealer broker Tullett Prebon has completed the acquired London-based oil broker PVM Oil Associates and its subsidiaries, in a deal that will allow its Tullett Prebon Information market data arm to expand its suite of energy products, and to extend…
Crowdnetic Launches Crowdfunding Data Service, Inks Digital Look Distribution Deal
Crowdnetic, a provider of data on the crowdfunded securities market has unveiled CWMarketdata, a data download service covering data from more than 4,000 active and closed 506(c) offerings, sourced from a range of crowdfunding platforms via the vendor's…
REDI Looks Outside of the Financial World for Financial World Support
More single-dealer EMS acquisitions could be in REDI's future
Azure Disruptions Show Firms Need a Plan for When Outages Occur
Abacus CTO Viktor Tadijanovic discusses having proper contingencies in place for a service interruption
BGC Extends Tender Offer for GFI
Interdealer broker adds to deadline as it settles breach of rules with FCA.
Goldman Sachs Invests in Big Data Analytics Start-Up
Goldman becomes the largest strategic investor in Kensho
Data Vets Sigillo, Johnson Establish MDI ‘Data Management-as-a-Service’ Practice
New offering targets boutique firms.
Wiener Börse to Distribute, License Zagreb Exchange Data
Agreement exposes Zagreb data to a wider international audience via Wiener Börse's "one-stop shop."
FIX Unites Market Data, High-Performance Working Groups
Standards body FIX Trading Community has combined its Market Data Optimization Working Group (MDOWG)—the group responsible for developing recommendations for enhancing the FIX Protocol trade messaging format to support market data transmission—with its…
Opening Cross: Putting the ‘Custom’ in ‘Customer’
Talk to a market data manager at any firm, and chances are they view vendors and exchanges as money-grubbing monsters that exist purely to squeeze revenues from their hapless clients with little thought to customer service or satisfaction.
Data Vets Sigillo, Johnson Establish MDI ‘Data Management-as-a-Service’ Practice
Market data management veterans Rich Sigillo and Cindy Johnson have set up a new company focused on providing market data expense management and optimization as a managed service for firms that are not large enough to have a dedicated market data…
60 Seconds with RiskFirst's Matthew Seymour
Matthew Seymour, Managing Director, RiskFirst
OptionsCity's CEO Discusses Optionshop Acquisition
Clients will see new products/functionality over next 6-12 months
Emerging Exchanges: Partnering for Power
Exchanges in emerging markets are teaming up with developed exchanges for technology and knowledge.
ETAS Panel: Future Analysis Needs Drive Clean, Fast Data
Panel weighs challenges of managing and analyzing anticipated future data volumes to gain insight.
December 2014: How Soft Are You?
While having good technology is a start, Victor says soft skills are necessary to win clients and gain an advantage over rivals.
Quandl Adds Sharadar Fundamentals to Financial Data Search Engine
Startup fundamental data supplier will provide comparable data at lower cost for Quandl users, officials say.