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BGC Bid for Rival Broker Turns Hostile
A $675 million offer by BGC Partners to acquire its rival GFI Group is now being presented directly to shareholders, following weeks of protracted negotiations between the firms.
Millistream Adds GXG Markets Data
Swedish data provider Millistream has signed an agreement to distribute real-time, delayed and end-of-day price data from Danish pan-European exchange GXG Markets, to improve its offering and to give clients access to a broader range of market…
CQG to Offer Eris Exchange Connectivity
As of Q1 of 2015, the order routing software provider's customers will have access to Eris' swap futures market data, analytics, and trade execution.
Victory Taps Rodriguez for BizDev
Chicago-based market data and trading infrastructure, connectivity and co-location provider Victory Networks has hired former Livevol president Dax Rodriguez as head of business development, responsible for expanding business relationships, contributing…
Charles River Partners with Interactive Data for Corporate Actions
Charles River's IBOR offering has been improved with the addition of Interactive Data's corporate actions data
Teradata Debuts Integration Optimization, Revises QueryGrid
Data services provider Teradata launches a data integration optimization service, built from its consulting practice, and adds new data processing query capabilities to its QueryGrid product
AQX° Connects to Squawker
Broker AQX° Securities has become the latest firm to connect to sell-side block venue Squawker.
OneVue Joins Calastone Network
Australian fund manager OneVue has joined Calastone’s global funds transaction network to automate fund transactions previously communicated by fax.
B-Next Upgrades Global Control Room
Compliance and surveillance specialist b-next has upgraded its CMC: Global Control Room suite, allowing compliance officers a global view of activity and information flows within an organization.
Tech Vet Barringer Joins SecurityScorecard to Tighten Data Security for Capital Markets
Paul Barringer has joined information security provider SecurityScorecard as strategic sales director, responsible for sales to corporate clients as well as to financial services firms, and for exploring new channels and use cases to sell the vendor's…
Hawthorn Life Using Financial Risk Product for Solvency II Reporting
Dublin-based investment funds company has implemented FRS product for Solvency II reporting
Enso Gets More Cash from Icap to Fund Expansion
Interdealer broker Icap has made a second undisclosed investment in market intelligence and analytics provider Enso, which provides portfolio analytics on counterparty credit risk, collateral management, and portfolio financing and treasury functions to…
Teradata, Datawatch Ally for Data Visualization
Big data storage and analysis provider Teradata is making analytics from data visualization software vendor Datawatch available to its clients, allowing them to visualize data sources held in Teradata data warehouses, such as documents, PDFs and log…
TMX Atrium to Distribute NPLTime
TMX Atrium, the network provider subsidiary of Canadian exchange group TMX, has signed a distribution agreement with the UK's national measurement institute, the National Physical Laboratory (NPL), to distribute NPLTime, a certified precise time signal…
Infinigon Bows API Access to Twitter Analytics
New York-based Infinigon Group, a provider of social media analytics that monitors Twitter for price-impacting information and provides the resulting data to trading firms, has released an API for firms to programmatically access its analytics.
Markit, Hang Seng Indexes Roll Out Offshore RMB Bond Index
Markit and Hong Kong's index provider Hang Seng Indexes have launched a bond index series that track the performance of offshore renminbi-denominated sovereign and corporate debt, in response to increased demand from regional and international investors…
Indonesia CSD Selects Nasdaq Tech
PT Kustodian Sentral Efek Indonesia (KSEI), the central securities depository (CSD) for Indonesia, will use Nasdaq's X-stream CSD technology to power its operations.
Turquoise Launches Block Discovery
Turquoise has announced the debut of its new block-trading service, Block Discovery, and added seven brokers as launch participants.
E-Trading Vet Lilien Joins Tradier Board
Electronic trading veteran Jarrett Lilien has joined the board of Tradier, which operates a cloud-based brokerage platform and a supporting environment of data, trading and analytics applications as an independent director.
Velocimetrics Taps TS-A Vet McDowell as CFO
Latency monitoring technology provider Velocimetrics has hired Karen McDowell as chief financial officer, responsible for overseeing the vendor’s financial health and for producing consolidated accounts for its proprietary product set and the Precision…
Velocimetrics Eyes Expansion
Latency monitoring technology provider Velocimetrics is seeking to expand its business globally, particularly in Asia, after securing a larger customer base in the region as a result of its recent acquisition of an exclusive license to sell and maintain…
MTS Preps Adds to MTS Bonds.com Data
London Stock Exchange Group-owned MTS Markets International (MTS US) is planning to launch a new market data service that will enable users to subscribe to individual bonds and groups of bonds traded on its recently acquired MTS Bonds.com trading…
First Derivatives Spends £36M to Up Kx Stake
Newry, Northern Ireland-based data technology provider First Derivatives has increased its shareholding in Palo Alto-based time-series database provider Kx Systems, giving the vendor a majority stake in the company.