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Waters Rankings 2016: Entry Deadline Extended by a Week
Entries to this year's Rankings are online only and the deadline, which has been extended by a week, is the end of business (EST), May 6.
BST European Summit 2016 Takes Shape
This year’s BST European Summit features Paula Walter, chief technology officer at Newton Investments in London and BlackRock's Ed Fishwick.
Infinigon Adds Echo to Eikon
The vendor's social media analytics platform will be available as a third-party application on Thomson Reuters' Eikon desktop.
SIX Nets Shapiro for Sales
With more than 20 years in market data sales, Shapiro has worked at FactSet, Morningstar, Tenfore, Thomson Financial and ILX.
Telx Opens Second San Francisco Datacenter
The datacenter has been designated an "essential" building for its earthquake-resistant construction.
CBOE Launches New Livevol Data Portal
The new site will allow users to subscribe to data on a more granular level, giving access to just the specific datasets they need.
Pontus Launches Azul Zing Version of Thread Manager
New product helped an investment bank improve latency of its FX pricing system by 20 times.
Broadridge Offers New Partner Program
Ira Newman, formerly of Informatica Software, to head up the new offering.
JPX Selects Cinnober for Risk Monitoring
JPX to leverage risk monitoring solution across its markets.
Dow Jones Bows Factiva App, Licensed Content
In addition to a new mobile app for Factiva on iPhone devices, Dow Jones is licensing curated news to third-party websites.
SEC Publishes NMS Plan for CAT, Seeks Public Comment
Regulators have six months to approve or deny the plan for the consolidated audit trail.
Thomson Reuters Taps FD-Kx for Velocity Analytics
The vendor will use First Derivatives' Kx technology to provide the underlying analytics and data management for Velocity.
SmartStream Hires Ben Pielow
Solutions provider announces new sales director for UK and Ireland
Hargreaves Lansdown Live with Calastone Settlement Service
Solution automates settlements for fund distributor
Misys Launches Cloud Platform for Solutions
Misys FinCloud includes all its solutions in one private cloud-based environment.
Axioma Opens Tokyo Office Amid Increased Client Demand
Kiichi Takai will join the firm's Tokyo office as a consultant.
Nasdaq Launches Validator Testing, Quality Platform
API-independent platform to support quality and testing processes for exchanges, clearing houses and CSDs.
Cyber Risk Still Top Concern for Firms, but Asia Economic Slowdown Also Worrisome, DTCC Survey Says
Survey saw a 21 percent increase in people worried Asia's economic slowdown could hurt global economy compared to last year's survey.
StatPro Adds Benchmark Analysis to Revolution
The latest version of StatPro's analytics platform includes functionality for creating composite benchmarks, and other performance-related tools.
SimCorp Appoints Jensen as Head of ASP Division
Former head of IT promoted to lead ASP Division as vendor sees increased uptake of hosted solutions.
Alacra Integrates Companies House API Beta
Platform to integrate more data over next few months
GlobalView Preps Excel-Like ‘CurveBuilder’
The platform offers an "Excel-like" interface for those used to pricing energy and commodities contracts using spreadsheets.
Almax Nets Funding to Grow Analytics Platform
Officials say the funding will help the vendor to enhance and grow its platform while working with early adopters.
SIX Introduces Bilateral Platform for OTC Securities
The first trade on XBTR was executed between Credit Suisse and Leoteq