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'Social' Trading Firm 8 Securities Gets Funding for Mobile Wealth Platform
Hong Kong-based trading firm 8 Securities, which captures data from social media sources and allows participants to crowd-source trading ideas from other analysts on the platform, has raised $8.7 million in Series B financing to accelerate its mobile…
KYCEO: Markit Genpact Taps May for Head Role
Ex-Goldman executive to join as registrants top 600.
Moex Selects DataSpace
Moscow Exchange to use Russian firm as data center provider.
Iraqi Bourse Deploys Nasdaq Tech
Upgrades from Horizon to X-stream
Compliance, Risk Carry Equal Weight For LEI
Entity Identifier Issues Survey Finds Firms' Reasons For Operations Investments
SolarFlare Sheds Light on Network Capture Through ‘SolarSystem'
Hardware acceleration and network technology provider Solarflare has released a new network data capture platform, dubbed Capture SolarSystem, which captures network and query activity and statistics.
Lime Squeezes More from Activ
Expanded deal adds global exchange data content to Lime's Strategy Studio.
Deutsche Bank Appoints Rangaswami CDO
JP Rangaswami to serve as firm's first-ever chief data officer.
MNI Appoints Suzanne Petren Moritz CEO
Former LexisNexis exec to take helm of Deutsche Börse's news division
JSE Moves to Final T+3 Phase
The Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) has announced the completion of phase two in its three-part plan to shift the South African securities market to T+3.
HKEx, SSE Offer Free Data to Support Shanghai–HK Stock Connect Launch
Exchanges offer free data to kick-start trading on HK-Shanghai link.
Vendors Prep for SSE–HK Stock Connect
Thomson Reuter, Bloomberg both create data pages to display Shanghai-Hong Kong data, despite delay to link's go-live
Carney Reappointed FSB Chairman
FSB's Carney Begins Second Term
RBC Revises Transaction Data Processes
With internal reorganization of data processes and new messaging and identification processes and technology, the firm is better prepared to incorporate new data as it arrives
APFIC 2014: Big Data in Big Demand, But Still Big Challenge
While specific use cases for Big Data technologies vary across an organization, demand for the capability to consume, process and analyze increasingly large volumes of data is ubiquitous across trading firms' front, middle and back offices, according to…
BST Awards 2014 - All the Winners
Final two category winners are Vermilion Software and Eze Software Group.
DealVector Adds SCI Prices to ‘BWIC Board'
DealVector will make SCI data available free of charge for a 30-day period
Millistream Rolls Out Nasdaq Genium Inet ITCH Feed for Derivatives Prices
Adopting Nasdaq's Genium Inet ITCH feed provides improved latency for Nordic automated trading firms
Culhane Departs Fidelity ActionsXchange
The chief operating officer of the corporate actions information unit of Fidelity has taken a senior vice president position at a health benefits company
APFIC 2014: Firms Must Focus on Data Integration to Meet Risk Regs
Banks have just over a year to address data integration challenges of Basel's new risk requirements
BI-SAM Names Ex-Thomson Vet Haney CEO
Former Thomson exec will complete transition from COO to CEO in January
AFPIC 2014: Firms Must Be Ready for Infrastructure Demands to Surpass Legacy Capabilities, Panel Warns
Rising infrastructure needs will drive development of new technologies to support modernization.
AFPIC 2014: Data Managers Highlight Need for Standards, Compliance
Lack of contract standards hinders firms' ability to switch to cheaper providers, panelists say.
ASC X9 Standards Group Names Director, Board Member
Harden Stevens, a longtime ASC X9 official, has been named executive director, and Bloomberg's Corby Dear joins the organization's board