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APFIC Panel: Buy Side: Complexity, Cost Top Asia Data Challenges
Buy-side firms in Asia are dealing with Increasingly complex asset classes, customer requirements and regulatory environments
APFIC Panelists Call for More Data, Greater Electronification to Fix Fixed Income Liquidity Crisis
Industry calls for more fixed income data in Asia
APFIC Panel: Data Latency Important Beyond Raw Speed
Latency still counts but quality and consistency of data is key
APFIC Panel: Banks, Vendors Must Think Like FinTech Innovators
Firms must be innovative to create new ideas, technology
The Waters Weekly Wrap: November 9-13
Each Friday, Waters editors and journalists pull together a quick-hit series of the best analysis pieces, features, and video interviews from across the five brands-just in case you missed them.
ITG Names Blake CEO of TriAct Canada
Blake comes from Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s Toronto officer where he served as vice president of electronic trading sales.
Asia-Pacific Executives See Innovation Returning to Data Technology
With regulatory requirements mostly addressed, firms' operations executives focusing on 'non-traditional players'
Landis Appointed Division CEO of SIX Swiss Exchange
Landis has 23 years of experience in various technology-related positions within the Swiss exchange.
Achieving Alpha: Can Data Lead the Way?
APFIC panel asks: Is data a value-add for the buy side?
Markit, Deutsche Börse Invest in Illuminate
Financial information services provider Markit and exchange group Deutsche Börse have invested an undisclosed sum in Illuminate Financial Management, a startup venture capital firm founded in 2014 by former Icap executive Mark Beeston.
Abide Financial Applies to Become a Trade Repository
Company is confident that regulator will approve application
Lucera, Perseus Launch Global On-Demand SDN Financial Network
New York-based network, trading infrastructure and time-synchronization technology provider Perseus and high-performance infrastructure provider Lucera Financial Infrastructures have partnered to launch a new global Software Defined Network (SDN)…
Bloomberg Blames Router Hardware for Asia Terminal Interruption
Clients of Bloomberg’s Professional terminal in the Asia-Pacific region experienced issues with data display on the morning of Monday, Nov. 9 as a result of a hardware failure on a router in one of the vendor’s US datacenters, Inside Market Data has…
Tullett Prebon Agrees to Buy Icap's Hybrid Voice Broking, Information Business
According to a Reuters report, the deal is worth $1.68 billion.
Advanced Posting Logic Added to WEX Vega Trader
Trading applet gets new flexibility for options order placement.
Gravitas to Supply Mill Hill Capital with Infrastructure, Network Support and BCP
New partnership provides an array of hosted capabilities for alternatives shop.
Aberdeen Taps Markit to Value Hard-to-Price Assets
Markit's hard-to-price valuation service provides valuations for seldom traded assets.
Ippoliti Joins JP Morgan
Former Raymond James CDO takes on data governance role
OTAS Adds Research to RSRCHXchange Platform
London-based RSRCHXchange, an online institutional research marketplace, has announced the addition of analytics provider OTAS Technologies to the list of providers offered on its research platform.
LSEG Names Former MSCI Exec Corrado COO and CIO
The London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) has announced the appointment of Chris Corrado as chief operating officer and chief information officer, effective today, Nov.11. He will be contributing to LSEG's mission to diversify its business and grow it…
Tullett Prebon to Buy Icap Voice Broking, Data Businesses
The deal will create the largest broker and bolster Tullett's market data business.
Marco Polo Securities Partners Bangladesh's UniCap
Chaperoning deal to broaden global investment opportunities for Marco Polo clients.
Rajan Named Vice Chair of BIS
India bank official elected to role at Basel-based organization supervising capital adequacy compliance
MiFID II on Pause? Vendors React
The European Commission announced today that it has accepted the need to push back the MiFID II January 3, 2017, start date due to tech concerns.