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Thomson Reuters Buys Moody's Evaluations Arm
Moody's is preparing to close its evaluated pricing service, after agreeing a deal to sell the municipal bond pricing portion of the business to Thomson Reuters, which is in the process of expanding its own evaluations unit, Inside Market Data has…
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In March 2009, Raymond D'Arcy, former president, sales and marketing at Interactive Data, succeeded Stuart Clark as president and chief executive officer of the company. Inside Reference Data speaks to him about his role change, the firm's strategies and…
Activ Boosts Content Management, Sales
Low-latency data vendor Activ Financial is building a content management team to support its growing number of exchange data sources, and has expanded its sales team in response to growth in the high-frequency trading space.
Caplin Steps Up Quality Focus
UK-based data and trading technology vendor Caplin Systems has recently bolstered its software quality assurance (QA) function, which officials say has become of increasing strategic importance as a result of changes to the vendor's product focus and…
BT Shuffles Capital Markets Execs
LONDON-In an effort to fine tune the management of its recently launched Global Banking and Financial Markets (GB&FM) division, global telecom giant BT has made two new appointments, DWT has learned.
FIX Offerings Spur NYSE Technologies' Nyfix Purchase
NEW YORK-Nyfix's customer base and its FIX network community, Nyfix Marketplace, were the key drivers in NYSE Technologies, a wholly owned commercial technology division of NYSE Euronext, acquiring the global alternative trading system (ATS) operator and…
Instinet Ramps Up Options Coverage with Torc Buy
NEW YORK-Agency brokerage Instinet is in the midst of purchasing options trading platform provider and agency brokerage Torc Financial in a transaction that is expected to close in the coming weeks.
Millistream Begins Nordic Expansion With Interactive Data Deal
Gothenburg-based data vendor Millistream Market Data is establishing a local sales and support organization across the Nordic region and has broadened the range of data that it offers via a recent partnership with Interactive Data-though Millistream…
Thomson Reuters Raids JPM Pricing Direct
Thomson Reuters has poached key staff from JP Morgan's Pricing Direct evaluated pricing arm in New York, in a bid to grow its own derivatives and structured finance pricing business.
Opra Increases Data Traffic Projections
The Options Price Reporting Authority has updated its projections for options data during 2010 and 2011 to reflect increased volumes anticipated as a result of new options exchanges and the expansion of the Securities and Exchange Commission's…
Vhayu ‘Central' to Reuters Tech Strategy
Thomson Reuters is to make Vhayu's Velocity tick database available as a hosted service, as well as using it to provide a key component of its next-generation "common platform" data desktop, following its purchase of the Los Gatos, Calif.-based tick data…