Emerging Technologies
Oslo Børs to Acquire Burgundy
Norwegian exchange Oslo Børs is set to acquire its Swedish rival, Burgundy, in a play for regional control of equities trading.
Email in the Cloud Tempting, But Elusive
Of all the functions to throw to a cloud services provider, email should be one of the easiest. So why is it still a problem?
NovaSparks Installs Kontopodis
Field-programmable gate array (FPGA) vendor NovaSparks has hired George Kontopodis as its executive vice president of product development.
SEC Promotes Dyson to Deputy CIO
Pamela Dyson has been with the agency since late 2010.
Buy-Side Panel: Analytics Only as Good as Your Data Management
Underlying data structures and management are key to getting the most out of analytics, panel says.
Saxo Bank Initiates LatAm Push
Specialist online investment house Saxo Bank has acquired a Uruguayan broker, in a bid to extend its presence in Latin America.
Exegy, StreamBase Ally for Algo Strategy Support, Data Analytics
Integrated products simplify process of using data from Exegy appliances in StreamBase's analytics engines, while opening new opportunities for both vendors
BlackRock, Thomson Reuters to Provide Fixed-Income Analytics for Buy Side
Investment management firm BlackRock and data vendor Thomson Reuters will partner to create a distributed fixed-income derived analytics set through BlackRock Solutions (BRS), the firm's solutions provision arm.
Fidessa Promotes Chatterjee, Opens Mumbai Office
Trading software vendor Fidessa has announced the opening of a new location in Mumbai, India.
Latency Becomes Costly Race of Attrition
As ultra-low latency becomes harder and more expensive to achieve, some firms are deciding not to pursue further upgrades, and focus their efforts elsewhere, said panelists at Inside Market Data Chicago
Is Apple's iPhone Beginning to Establish its Dominance on Wall Street?
At this year's Buy-Side Technology North American Summit, technology leaders at several major buy-side firms discussed their bring-your-own-device strategies, but most of the talk was around the Apple iPhone and iPad, and not Android or BlackBerry.
Barclays Hires Bannocks
Christopher Bannocks, previously head of enterprise data management at Nomura International, has joined Barclays as global head of reference data
iGate Appoints New Sales Director For EMEA
Amitabh Roy has been appointed to acquire new financial services customers for iGate’s consulting, technology and business process outsourcing services in Europe, with a particular focus on reference data