Emerging Technologies
Update: Colt to Buy Japanese Network, Hosting Partner KVH
Acquisition will expand the network and infrastructure provider's existign presence in the region.
Alacra Adds Data Vets to Management Team
Three New Hires for Service Provider
'Social' Trading Firm 8 Securities Gets Funding for Mobile Wealth Platform
Hong Kong-based trading firm 8 Securities, which captures data from social media sources and allows participants to crowd-source trading ideas from other analysts on the platform, has raised $8.7 million in Series B financing to accelerate its mobile…
KYCEO: Markit Genpact Taps May for Head Role
Ex-Goldman executive to join as registrants top 600.
Lime Squeezes More from Activ
Expanded deal adds global exchange data content to Lime's Strategy Studio.
Deutsche Bank Appoints Rangaswami CDO
JP Rangaswami to serve as firm's first-ever chief data officer.
MNI Appoints Suzanne Petren Moritz CEO
Former LexisNexis exec to take helm of Deutsche Börse's news division
Summit: Fixed Income Needs Collaboration, Better—Not Faster—Tech
More collaboration and better technology can bring liquidity back to fixed income
Open Source Technology within Financial Markets -- Webcast
WatersTechnology gathered leading industry experts for a webcast on October 21, 2014 to discuss how open source technology can be safely and effectively used within financial services firms trading on wholesale markets.
Opening Cross: The ’Center of the Data Universe
With coverage of our Asia Pacific Financial Information Conference taking center stage in this week’s Inside Market Data, debating new initiatives such as the planned Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect program—and its unexpected, indefinite delay—and the…
Rimes Panel Tackles Rising Data Management Costs
Cost, data quality and data management needs drive managed services debate.
Carney Reappointed FSB Chairman
FSB's Carney Begins Second Term
Rethinking Investor Protection in the Central Clearing Revolution
Automation and STP are required to protect investors.
APFIC 2014: Big Data in Big Demand, But Still Big Challenge
While specific use cases for Big Data technologies vary across an organization, demand for the capability to consume, process and analyze increasingly large volumes of data is ubiquitous across trading firms' front, middle and back offices, according to…
DealVector Adds SCI Prices to ‘BWIC Board'
DealVector will make SCI data available free of charge for a 30-day period
Culhane Departs Fidelity ActionsXchange
The chief operating officer of the corporate actions information unit of Fidelity has taken a senior vice president position at a health benefits company
APFIC 2014: Firms Must Focus on Data Integration to Meet Risk Regs
Banks have just over a year to address data integration challenges of Basel's new risk requirements
BI-SAM Names Ex-Thomson Vet Haney CEO
Former Thomson exec will complete transition from COO to CEO in January
AFPIC 2014: Firms Must Be Ready for Infrastructure Demands to Surpass Legacy Capabilities, Panel Warns
Rising infrastructure needs will drive development of new technologies to support modernization.
AFPIC 2014: Data Managers Highlight Need for Standards, Compliance
Lack of contract standards hinders firms' ability to switch to cheaper providers, panelists say.
ASC X9 Standards Group Names Director, Board Member
Harden Stevens, a longtime ASC X9 official, has been named executive director, and Bloomberg's Corby Dear joins the organization's board
APFIC 2014: Regulation, Flexibility, Legacy Upgrades Drive Managed Services
Regulation and flexibility are the key drivers for the uptake in managed services globally according to a panel of managed services providers, at this week's Asia Pacific Financial Information Conference in Hong Kong.
APFIC Day 2 Keynote: Data Industry at Inflection Point, says IDC CIO Goor
The data industry is currently at an inflection point where the cost of consuming and processing data outweighs the revenues generated, but firms who embrace the "deluge of data" rather than attempting to reduce their intake are more likely to succeed in…
Big MACs and Other Swap Delicacies
Tim will have his with CLOBs of cheese.