Eyeing Buy Side, Primark Acquires Baseline Financial; Vestek, Plexus Partner

MARKET DATA & NEWS

LAST week saw two more deals from an aggressive Primark Corp. aimed at attracting more business from buy-side customers, a segment where the company has historically been weakest.

Primark, a former gas-company-turned-financial-information-firm, acquired Baseline Financial Services for $40 million in cash from Bowne & Co. and Baseline's founder, Robert Patterson. Baseline provides 450 investment management firms and security analysts in North America with historical and fundamental information on

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The IMD Wrap: The growing data catalogue space

With their potential to manage costs and surface strategic datasets, it’s no wonder Max gets excited about data catalogs. This week, he takes a look at a new startup entering the space.

The IMD Wrap: Taking stock of inventory management

With market data and associated costs typically representing a firm’s third-largest expense, there’s a lot of incentive to manage data and its usage more efficiently. Max flings open his fridge to illustrate what’s new in this space.

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